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US Laser Phosphor Projectors Sales in Jeopardy Because of FDA Ruling

by Chris Chinnock

In February 2015, the FDA issued a ruling that is having a chilling effect on sales of laser phosphor projectors in the US. This ruling classified projectors containing lasers (RGB laser, laser phosphor and …

Tags:Infocomm 2015| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Laser Projectors| Regulation| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 27

Quantum Dots: The Plot Thickens

by Ken Werner

A lot of the conversation about quantum dots at Display Week revolved around the European Commission’s rejection of their own technical committee’s recommendation that cadmium-based quantum dots continue to be exempt from prohibition as …

Tags:3M (MMM)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nanosys| QD Vision| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Transparent Flexible Conductors Proliferate at Display Week

by Ken Werner

You could make a case for Transparent Flexible Conductors (TFCs) based on thinness, lightweight and ruggedness even when they are being applied to displays with rigid substrates. Now that flexible displays are entering the …

Tags:Flexible Displays| ITO Replacement| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Touch and Haptics Innovations in 2015 SID iZone

by Phillip Wright

Two developers caught my attention during my visit to the 2015 SID Display Week Innovation Zone (iZone). Redux Technologies and TouchNetix were exhibiting new embedded haptics and touch sensor products, respectively. The Redux Embedded …

Tags:Haptics| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| Touch Controllers| Touch Displays| Touch Interfaces| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Wearable Software Ecosystem: Diversity or Monoculture

by Phillip Wright

The 2015 SID Display Week Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference hosted a session and panel discussion on Software for Wearables with speakers from Mozilla, Intel, and Runtastic. At this point in the penultimate session of …

Tags:Android Wear| Fitness Trackers| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| Smartwatches| Software| Software Market| SW Applications| Vol 22 - Issue 24| Wearables

Challenges Remain, but Some Display Jobs are Now Done

by Bob Raikes

This week, we have been very busy following up the SID show and we are just finalising the report as I write this article. Now I’m away from it, it’s getting clearer what the …

Tags:Editorial| Eyewear| Flexible Displays| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Power Consumption| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Display Glass at SID Display Week 2015 – Du Pont/Kateeva to Print OLEDs?

by Ken Werner

Without new materials and new manufacturing processes, display evolution is just – for the most part – evolutionary. On the show floor at Display Week, we saw three major categories of new and evolving …

Tags:Asahi Glass Corporation (AGC)| Corning| DuPont| Glass| InkJet Deposition| Kateeva| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NEG| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Sharp Highlights Free Form Concepts

by Bob Raikes

We were impressed with the Sharp Free Form displays that we saw at CES, but we were unable to get much more information, so we were pleased to catch up with the company at …

Tags:Automotive| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| LFD - Large Format Display| Memory LCD| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

JDI Amazes with Range of Solutions

by Bob Raikes

I’d be tempted to say that the sheer number of things that JDI showed us was the highlight of the booth, but several of the demos were also very impressive. We started by looking …

Tags:AMOLED| Automotive| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Medical| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| toshiba| Touch Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 24

AUO Wins Award and Impresses

by Bob Raikes

AUO started by showing us its 1.3″ (320 x 320 – 257ppi 350 cd/m²) plastic AMOLED and its 1.4″ “Full Circle” (400 x 400 – 287ppi 350 cd/m²) OLED which won the SID Best …

Tags:AMOLED| AUO| Automotive| Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pcap (Procap)| SID Display Week 2015| Smartwatches| Transflective Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Fraunhofer Shows Bidirectional SVGA Microdisplay at SID

by Steve Sechrist

The Germany-based Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics group was at SID Display Week 2015 with a new SVGA Bi-directional Microdisplay OLED chip that can both reproduce and record images. The OLED on silicon display …

Tags:Fraunhofer| Head Up Displays HUDs| Large Display Monitor| Microdisplays| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

CSOT Concentrates on LCD & OLED TV

by Bob Raikes

An executive from TCL, the parent of CSOT from China was one of the keynote speakers (TCL Growing with CSOT Supply). CSOT had a booth at the show and the first product we looked …

Tags:CSOT| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24