Geoff Walker Touches on the Future of Touch at SID 2013
Display Components - Touch sensor technology and user interface trends constituted a substantial portion of the SID Display Week 2013 Touch Gesture Motion (TGM) Market Focus Conference held May 22,...
View ArticleCima NanoTech Describes ITO Replacement Film at SID 2013
Display Components – As Geoff Walker of Intel noted in his SID 2013 Touch Gesture Motion Conference talk, transparent conductor materials to replace indium tin oxide are an important driver for touch...
View ArticleMircrosoft’s View on “How Many Pixels Per Inch is Enough?”
Mobile Displays - In the Emerging Displays session of the 2013 SID Symposium Steven Bathiche of Microsoft Research presented an invited paper on Optical and System Considerations for Mobile Touch...
View ArticleFeeling Good About Haptics
User Interfaces – Haptics was the topic of the Focused Opportunities session of the 2013 SID Display Week Touch Gesture Motion (TGM) Market Focus Conference. Representatives of Tactus Technology, Next...
View ArticleThe Future of Interactivity
Interactive Displays – The 2013 SID Display Week Touch Gesture Motion (TGM) Market Focus Conference included a session on The Future of Interactivity. Interactive displays and the user interface...
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Touch Sensors with Feelings
User Interface – Peratech (Richmond, North Yorkshire, UK) has applied the firm’s Quantum Tunneling Composite (QTC) material to the development of their QTC Ultra Touch Screen technology that provides...
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Leap Motion Controller Launches
User Interface - Leap Motion began shipping on July 22, 2013 their eagerly awaited Leap Motion Controller hardware (photos below, $79.99 available directly from Leap Motion and beginning July 28 from...
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Samsung Flexible Display Challenge
Mobile Displays – Samsung has announced their Flexible Future Business Plan Contest that the firm hopes will encourage development of new product ideas for their flexible display technology. With a...
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Google Glass Addresses the “Style” Issue
Mobile Displays – Google Glass, the eyeglass style mobile device, has continued to generate interest, criticism and commentary since Project Glass was first announced by Google in April, 2012. As...
View ArticleAutomatic Content Recognition Gaining Momentum for “Enhanced Television”
TV – Cognitive Networks has announced that LG Electronics is the first TV set maker to integrate Cognitive’s cloud-based, enhanced television system. The company states, “Enhanced TV allows viewers to...
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Apple Makes a Move – Is NFC Obsolete?
Mobile Devices – On September 10, 2013, Apple announced their new iPhone 5c and 5s smartphones. The absence of Near Field Communication (NFC) capability in Apple’s new smartphones combined with...
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Sony Home Theater Products Emphasize Quality Experience at CEDIA 2013
Home Theater – Sony at CEDIA Expo 2013 (September 25-28, Denver, CO, USA) introduced their latest home theater products for the custom install market. Foremost among their three new front projector...
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Coming Soon to an IP Address Near You! – The Internet of Things
Mobile Devices – Research Firm IHS has reported that the number of Internet-connected video devices will reach 8.2 billion in 2017 – exceeding the world’s projected population of 7.4 billion people in...
View ArticleMore Feel-Good Haptics
User Interface – Researchers at the University of Bristol’s Interaction and Graphics group, as well as at Disney Research, have introduced new techniques for providing haptic feedback to deliver...
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Multiple Technologies Drive iPad Air Upgrade
Mobile Displays – Apple’s new iPad Air features outstanding display performance as was reported on by my colleague Steve Sechrist in his Display Daily article earlier this week. The new iPad Air...
View ArticlePrinted Electronics, Flexible and 3D Display, Internet (and Everything Else)
Emerging Technology –The 2013 Edition of the Printed Electronics USA Conference and Tradeshow organized by IDTechEx is being held this week (November 20 and 21) in Santa Clara CA. I have attended a...
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Printed Flexible Electrochemical Cell Displays
Mobile Displays – At the 2013 Printed Electronics USA Conference and Tradeshow (November 20-21, Santa Clara, CA, USA) two firms, Cambridge Display Technology Ltd (CDT) and LunaLEC AB provided progress...
View ArticleKateeva and Aixtron Push the Scaling OLED Display Manufacturing
Supply Chain- Scaling OLED display manufacturing to new heights was highlighted at the 2013 Printed Electronics USA Conference and Tradeshow (November 20-21, Santa Clara, CA, USA. I attended...
View ArticleOLED Materials R&D Marches Forward
Emerging Technology – Recent developments in OLED materials and device R&D were shared by researchers from IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Cynora Optoelectronic Solutions at the 2013 Printed...
View ArticleAttention Grabbing User Interface Developments
User Interface – As the 2014 edition of the International CES approaches (Las Vegas, USA, January 7-10, 2014), we are beginning to see rumblings of some of the latest innovations in user interface...
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