November 2015 – Earlier this year, long time computer and mobile device accessory leader Logitech brought out a new mid-size mouse that is a targeted companion to the multi-platform user. The size is designed for working with convertibles/ultrabooks, laptops and desktops. The mouse is Bluetooth connected to the computers through the Bluetooth Smart interface or…
Incom Polymer Fiber Optic Solutions June 2015 – At the SID Display Week event, we met with Incom. For over 40 years they have been part of the optics and display ecosystem providing custom hard bonded fiber optic solutions to a variety of industries. These fiber optic solutions are made with both traditional glass and…
August 5, 2014, Emerging Display Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Paul Semenza from NPD DisplaySearch, Bob Senior from Canatu, and Sri Srinivas from Raydiance discussed the emerging flexible and curved displays. The drivers for non-planar displays are greater flexibility in design and the conflicting demands for smaller and lighter versus larger screens. Semenza opened with a…
August 6, 2013, Emerging Display Technologies Conference, San Jose, CA-A panel moderated by Paul Semenza from NPD DisplaySearch looked at the developing technologies for touch sensors. The panel included Ola Wassvik from FlatFrog, Kelly Ingham from Cima Nanotech, Jim Tassone from Unipixel Displays, and Bob Senior form Canatu. Wassvik started with large area touch using…
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…
August 13, 2012, Display Search Emerging Display Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Kurth Reynolds from Synaptics talked about various sensor types and the on-going industrial design to improve the user experience. The whole package now needs system-level knowledge and tools to address the complex issues. Sensor types are proliferating as sensors and displays become more highly…
August 13, 2012, Display Search Emerging Display Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Waguih Ishak from the Corning West Technology Center described their efforts to improve the glass characteristics to enable the latest displays. Corning conducts a lot of R&D in materials and processing to improve their glass. As a glass manufacturer, Corning been in the business…
August 13, 2012, Display Search Emerging Display Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Mark Hamblin from Touch Revolution compared and contrasted touch on lens and in-cell technologies. The need for higher performance and lower costs are competing with increased manufacturing complexity in the target technologies. Capacitive touch interfaces need two layers of ITO to form the sensor…
May 17, 2011, Society for Information Display, Los Angeles—We talked to Takahiro Ikezaki, vp of the electronics flat glass division from Asahi Glass Company about their latest developments. Thin and tough were the key words for the talks. Stress Test on DragonTail glass (Three-point bending with 1.1 mm-thick glass) Their latest cover glass…
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…