All Entries Tagged With: "display"
IGZO technology and smart TV
Intel recently declared that they expected high-resolution displays to start appearing in notebooks late this year. Sharp has now announced that they have commenced mass production of the first displays to make use of Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide (IGZO) semiconductors, which enable manufacturers to use smaller thin-film transistors with increased pixel transparency, which may mean [...]
Atmel Twistable Touchscreen
Atmel is a tech manufacturer specializing in touch-screens, such as those found inside the Samsung Galaxy Note and Samsung Galaxy Tab. The most recent technological development for the California-based firm is XSense, which is an ultra-thin, flexible, film-based touch sensor which can be bent and twisted without distorting displayed images, let alone cracking or splintering [...]
Lotus Glass Teamed With Samsung OLED Displays
Corning’s Gorilla Glass famously makes the iPhone and several premium smartphones a bit mre likely to survive falls without a broken screen, but a lesser-known product made by Corning is Lotus Glass, which can be laid on top of OLED dislays and will flex without cracking. Lotus Glass makes curved displays possible, and helps screens [...]
Toshiba’s 6.1 inch 2560 x 1600 pixel LCD display
Time for a paradigm shift. Very few people find anything to complain about with the the iPhone 4S 3.5 inch 2560 x 1600 pixel Retina Display. Now Toshiba has unveiled a development 6.1 inch 2560 x 1600 pixel LCD display. To save you from doing the mental arithmetic that’s a pixel density of 498 pixels [...]
Screen Manufactures Realign Forces
Hardware manufacturers are all set for a bumper 2012 for tablet sales – so much so that TFT display companies have re-oriented their business plans towards smaller devices. Weak demand has led to the price of larger, notebook-sized LCDs crashing. Tablets still make up a smaller proportion of the total market than notebooks and TV [...]
Toshiba Launches USB-powered Second Screen
Toshiba, not content with announcing last month the launch of a lightning-quick 15000rpm hard drive, has now unveiled a USB-powered second display. The 14-inch, 1366 x 768 display plugs into a USB-2 port. Although second displays are estimated to increase productivity by 30%, the 795g of extra baggage might be a bit large to carry [...]
Microsoft Palmtop Desktop
Developers at Microsoft have developed a system to make any surface touch-enabled. They call their system Omnitouch, whereby a connected camera and pico-projector enable any surface – wall, paper, even a user’s hands – can serve as a touch device. Similar to Kinect but short range-enabled, the camera reports real-world 3D co-ordinates and then tracks [...]
Delta Electronics Unveils e-paper for 2012
The IFA in Berlin has given an insight into the future of mobile technology. Taiwanese manufacturer Delta Electronics revealed its flexible e-paper which it expects to hit the mass amrket in 2014. It offers 960 x 280 pixel colour based on QR-LPD technology. A full range of panel sizes will stretch from 4.1 to [...]
Pixel Qi displays growing big
Pixel Qi displays can function as a full color LCD display as well as a grayscale display that does not require backlighting and only relies on ambient lighting to work. This is pretty much like the E-ink but the difference is that the E-ink has a much slower refresh rate and the Pixel Qi displays [...]
7 inch Blackberry Playbook in ad
A 30 seconder TV ad was released by Research in Motion revealing the Blackberry Playbook. The good thing about this ad is that it really shows the great side of the tablet especially the multitasking capabilities. In the ad, you will see the app switching support which is one of its greatest strengths. The high [...]
