The Japanese electronics manufacturers hunt as a pack, and when Toshiba announced its glasses-less 3D LCD panels earlier this week, it was a racing certainty others would follow.
Sharp was the next one to show with a 3.8 inch and a 10.6 inch display. Unlike Toshiba’s…
Plastic Logic, the Cambridge plastic electronics specialist, seems to have got itself into a mess.
On Monday the FT reports that control of the company may be transferred to Rusnano, a state-owned Russian company. Today, Wednesday, Plastic Logic announces it has canned its product line.
Plastic Logic is one…
Thanks to DisplaySearch for this one: the ten fastest growing applications for flat panel displays between 2008 and 2010. They are:
Mini Notebook PC
OLED TV
Digital Picture Frame
Portable Navigation Device
Automotive
Public Display
Near Eye
Portable Media Player
Digital Still camera
LCD TV…
OLED has proved to be a disappointment, according to Paul Gray of analysts DisplaySearch, speaking at Sharp’s recent Innovation Forum in Munich.
“OLED has been next year’s technology for about ten years”, said Gray, “it’s still very small volume.” By that he means under half a billion…
The Venetians now have LED displays, similar to those on the London Underground, to show the times when the public boats which ply their canals, the Vaporetti, are due to arrive.
However Venice, where I spent last weekend, seems to have gone for an aspirational system like the Tube. The…
What happens when people talk about displays? Invariably up bubble hypey statements about OLEDs, Electrophorescents and FEDs. All of which, or each of which, we are invariably told, are the so-called ‘next mainstream display technology’.
If that’s the case why, one might ask, was OLED pioneer Cambridge Display…
I slept last night in a former monastery in the middle of a lake near Munich, courtesy of Sharp, who hold an annual forum there.
No, I reply to those knowing questioners, the spirit of monks past did not encourage me into to any monkish pleasures. Nor did I suffer…
E-paper displays could be coming into their own.Last week, Fujitsu announced a nifty colour terminal with an e-paper display which runs Windows CE, and the French company Nemoptics, headed up by ex-Thomson Semiconductors’ boss Jacques Noels, announced it’s moving into volume production of e-paper…