June 4, 2013, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—Amber Case from ESRI presented “The Future of Wearable Computing”. The drivers and conditions for adoption are changing as the technologies improve. Among the issues the AR community has to address are constraint, context, and location information. We are still waiting for a realistic wearable display and [...]
March 18, 2013, NPD Flat-Panel Display Conference, San Jose, CA—A panel from industry looked at the issues in flat panel manufacturing. Paul Semenza from NPD DisplaySearch moderated the panel. Panelists were Si Kyoung Kim from Applied Materials, Robert O’Brien from Corning, Art Lathrop from 3M, and Darrell Benke from AMS. Applied is working on flat [...]
March 18, 2013, NPD Flat-Panel Display Conference, San Jose, CA—Paul Semenza from NPD DisplaySearch described how the supply chain is reacting to the rise of smart devices. The apparent conflict between big and cheap versus increasingly high-tech means that supply chain must evolve to meet both requirements. Smart devices are defined as connected, interactive, and [...]
CES, January 2013, Las Vegas—We talked with Timo Korpela from MultiTouch Americas about their latest offerings in displays and couch controls. They offer industrial grade displays in wall and tabletop formats. On their wall displays, they now have one version with a 6mm total gap on stacked panels. The close spacing images reality and makes [...]
January 7, 2013, CES, Las Vegas—Press day at CES is a chance for exhibitors to capture some members of the press for a while, and make a pitch about their latest and greatest new gadgets. This event is an opportunity to package a message and put new releases into some perspective, in an environment more [...]
December 10, 2012, International Electron Devices Meeting, San Francisco—Seonki Kim from Samsung presented a view of the current state of the art and the future prospective for the display industry. Changes will take place at both the macro and micro levels for all displays. Displays have evolved from analog CRTs by adding color, and these [...]
December 6, 2012, Printed Electronics USA, Santa Clara, CA—Erkki Soininen Canatu from Canatu described the work in carbon nanotubes and fullerenes for flexible and formable touch screens. The materials are positioned as replacements for ITO-based touch sensors. Carbon nanotubes with a fullerene attached are conductive, transparent, non-reflective, and flexible as conductors. This work is addressing [...]
October 2012 – At a San Jose press event, the team from Imagination Technologies in the UK held a briefing to overview their current product offerings and their historical product shipments reaching the 1B unit level. The company is on track to be included in products that are shipping at the rate of 1M units/day [...]
October 24, 2012, Renesas DevCon, Anaheim, CA—We talked with Cathy Dotson, Dale Maunu, Dean Collins, and Yuji Kondo from NLT Displays about their various display products. The displays are from the former NEC LCD Technologies company and geared for industrial use. The context for the display group is that they are not in the consumer-grade [...]
August 14, 2012, Emerging Display Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—G. Rajeswaran form Moser Baer Technologies presented the advances in OLED technology for displays and lighting. The latest technologies have evolved from work starting in the mid ’80s. Kodak started their efforts to make solar cells, but the materials didn’t absorb energy, they emitted light. Along [...]
