As touch technology has been a focus for displays and interactive video, there are other harsh condition applications that can utilize touch sensing rather than mechanical controls. For waterproof (rather than just water resistant) applications – hospitals, medical equip, and outdoor industrial controls, and wet application infotainment control. Most of the capactive touch technologies work [...]
Connections: the Digital Living Conference, Santa Clara, CA—in a keynote talk, Scott Birnbaum, vp, Samsung LCD Business Unit, talked about “LCD TV: gazing into a liquid crystal world”. After providing background information on Samsung, Birnbaum talked about the changes in homes and televisions over time. In 1938 black-and-white televisions became available. In 1956, color TV [...]
In order to address the growing need for computing and electronic processing in portable and high functionality design, TSMC, the worlds largest independent semiconductor manufacturing foundry, released their reference flow 11 for 28nm/22nm processes. The technology driver for these processes has shifted from the historic memory designs, and then processors, to the current System-On-a-Chip (SOC) [...]
The pervasive need for video information has driven the requirements for flat panel displays and touch screens to being needed in outdoor harsh environments. Sunbrite TV designs and manufactures flat panel displays that operate from -24F to 122F including wet conditions. Targeted for commercial applications, the sets are optimize for operation as a traditional TV [...]
Now the we have entered the unofficial beginning of summer, we can anticipate a shorter commute to work, for those who still have jobs. The summer blockbuster movie season is upon us and you can choose from a number of 3-D movies at your local multiplex, if the theater has the bandwidth to show more [...]
Rocktropia is a new breed of MMO that is using a virtual world game environment as a catalyst for a real social community centered around the game and its characters. The game was created by Jon NeverDie Jacobs of NeverDie studios. Rocktropia is a music based virtual world that features players, characters and music from [...]
M&E Tech had an opportunity to discuss the Google TV announcement with Buno Pati, CEO of Sezmi. Sezmi is a provider of an Internet-based set-top box that provides broadcast, cable, and Internet content to a TV display with a unified interface. Our discussion with Mr. Pati started with the general question of what he thought [...]
Seonki Kim, master, talked about display resolution and quality. The progression of platforms has moved from standard definition to high definition. The next phase will be in ultra definition which is defined as 3340 X 2160 pixels. Ultra definition has four times the number of pixels compared to HD and requires a much more sophisticated [...]
El Segundo, Calif., May 24, 2010—To support media coverage of the Society for Information Display (SID) 2010 International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition this week in Seattle, iSuppli Corp. is issuing the following fast facts: • Global shipments of large-sized LCD panels, i.e., panels 10-inches in size or larger in the diagonal dimension, are set to [...]
Cavium Networks unveiled a family of processors which deliver compute performance and application acceleration for borderless enterprise, mobile internet infrastructure and secure data center and cloud computing applications. The OCTEON II CN68XX/67XX processor families integrate 8 to 32 enhanced MIPS64 cores in a single chip combined with over 85 L3-L7 application and security acceleration engines, [...]
