August 13, 2012, Display Search Emerging Display Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Doug Young from Neonode talked about the changing landscape for sensors, and the requirements for next-generation systems. Design and intellectual property as well as industrial design are becoming the drivers for new consumer products. As a part of the changes, the inclusion of multiple…
July 11, 2012, FlexTech Alliance, San Francisco—David Allee from the Flexible display Center at Arizona State University described the past and current efforts in flexible display research. As TFTs move from amorphous silicon to metal oxide as the base material, the challenges of higher levels of integration become clear. The InGaZnO materials are mostly settling…
March 19, 2012, Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Education Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Neeraj Pendse from TE Touch Solutions talked about interactive digital signage. This growing marketplace is changing the way companies are supplying information in public areas. Digital signage is a $2 B industry, and is expected to grow to $3 B by ’16. The market includes…
September 22, 2011, 3-D User Experience Technical Summit, Hollywood–Koichi Imai and Kiyoto Kanda described the efforts in Japan to produce and distribute safety guidelines for 3-D safety. The expansion of devices and content is the driver for safety standards. For the past 11 years, they have been developing guidelines addressing 3-D safety issues. The guidelines…
May 17, 2011, Society for Information Display, Los Angeles—We talked to some folks from Corning Glass about their latest developments. Thinner, stronger, and also non-planar were the main topics. One really interesting display was a glass substrate that is 0.05 mm thick and is bendable. In their display, they had a 6-inch wide, 10-foot section…
January 25, 2011, Photonics West, San Francisco–Cheng-Dong Kim, vice president of R&D at the LG Research Center talked about “technology challenges in e-paper to flexible display application”. The universe of displays is changing dramatically, and the old standby CRTs are rapidly becoming obsolete. User needs and requirements are driving technology changes in displays. CRTs are…
January 18, 2011 SPIE Electronic Imaging, Burlingame, CA—Michael Robinson, chief scientist at RealD described the current state of stereoscopic 3-D in his keynote talk. Overall, the displays are more than adequate for the job, but the content capture needs to be tailored to the display, obviously a challenge when considering all possible display types. In…
October 19, 2010 – Palo Alto, CA – At the MEMS Technology Summit held at Stanford University, the event was organized and presented as a 25th anniversary celebration of MEMS. The organizers of the event – the founders of NovaSensor – chose the occasion to review the history, accomplishments and future of the MEMS marketplace…
August 19, 2010 San Jose, CA—The Emerging Display Technologies Conference focused on other areas of displays, touch screens. Jennifer Colegrove, director of display technologies at DisplaySearch unleashed a tsunami of data and trends on the touch screen market. The technologies associated with touch screens are rapidly becoming part of a everyday life. The drivers for…
August 18,2010, San Jose, CA the TV Ecosystem conference opened with a market and trends analysis from Paul Gagnon, director of N. America TV research at DisplaySearch. The industry is being challenged by two conflicting trends, price erosion as products achievement maturity versus premiums for innovation. In the past couple of years, three key technologies…