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Qualcomm’s Other Screen Tech Company Showed Off a 7″ Mems Display at SID Display Week

May 23rd, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · conferences & trade shows, hardware news → No Comments

pixtronix qualcomm sid display week 2013 1Qualcomm got a lot of press this week for a dummy 5.1 inch smartphone screen, but I would bet that the screen from Qualcomm’s other screen tech division has a better chance of hitting the market.

Several folks from Pixtronix were in the Qualcomm booth this year, showing off a new 7″ display that is based on a Sharp IGZO backplane.  This screen might not boast the super high resolution of the Mirasol dummy, but it does show promise of using less power that LCD or OLED while still offering better color quality than other low-power screen techs like Liquavista.
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Qualcomm Repurposes Mirasol Screen Tech As Fancy Movie Prop & One Day Hopes to Get it Into Mobile Devices

May 22nd, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · conferences & trade shows, hardware news → 3 Comments

mirasol prop sid display week 3Qualcomm is getting a lot of attention this week thanks to their new 5.1 inch Mirasol screen, but most of the press coverage has left out one key detail.

The screen doesn’t actually work.
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E-ink Debuts Spectra 3 Color Display – Not Ready For eReaders

May 21st, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · conferences & trade shows, hardware news, video → 4 Comments

spectra_img_052113[1]E-ink has managed to be the most exciting and biggest letdown at SID Display Week this year.

They’ve just unveiled a new screen tech that promises to offer the sharp color that the Triton 2 color E-ink lacks in no less than 3 colors, but unfortunately it is also limited to exactly 3 colors.
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Why Samsung Sold Liquavista, in a Single Photo

May 21st, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · conferences & trade shows, hardware news → 7 Comments

P1020616I was in the Samsung booth earlier today, checking out their screen tech, when I came across the the perfect scene to explain why Samsung sold Liquivista.

Here it is:
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E-ink is Going Where No Electronic Shelf Label Has Gone Before – to the Freezer Case

May 21st, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · conferences & trade shows, hardware news → No Comments

aurora e-ink screen shelf label 1E-ink has a number of new products on display at SID Display Week this year and one of the more unusual ones is their new Aurora shelf label. This is going to be the first shelf label that can be deployed into a supermarket’s freezer case (or so E-ink says*).
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SID Display Week is Coming up in Two Weeks – The Digital Reader Will be There

May 6th, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · conferences & trade shows → No Comments

201261418165222009[1]The Society for Information Display is holding their annual conference and trade show in Vancouver later this month, and I will be there.

This will be the 50th SID Display Week, and I am expecting it to be a good one.  I have a list of people to meet, booths to visit, and sessions to attend.

If you are attending the show and would like to meet, drop me a line. Thanks to cheap airfare I’ll be in Vancouver for most of a week.

I’m Going to be in Phoenix, AZ Next Week for FlexTech 2013

January 20th, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · conferences & trade shows → No Comments

flexTech_image300w[1]I thought I would give my readers a heads up that I am going to be attending a relatively unknown conference and trade show in the last week of January.

FlexTech 2013 is the trade show for the Flex Tech Alliance. This trade group promotes (obviously) flexible technology like Plastic Logic’s screens and plastic based electronics, Wistron’s flexible E-ink screens, and the like.
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E-Ink’s Triton 2 Color Screen Gains Frontlight, Loses Weight (video)

January 15th, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · conferences & trade shows, hardware news, video → 9 Comments

triton 2 color e-ink 3Here’s one of those stories which I didn’t think were important at CES. As you can see in the video, I was wrong.

About a month ago Ectaco announced their second doomed large-screen ereader, the Jetbook Color 2. This ereader is the first to have the Triton 2, the newest generation E-ink screen. At that time neither E-ink nor Ectaco were willing to share specific details on the technical specs for this screen but it seems that E-ink changed their mind for CES 2013.
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Yifang’s Touch8 Touchscreen Conversion Accessory Should be Bundled with All Win8 Install Disks

January 11th, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · conferences & trade shows, hardware news → 1 Comment

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I stopped by the Yifang booth today and I found something much more interesting than the tablets I was expecting.

Yifang has come out with a new way to add a touchscreen to an older laptop.  It involves clipping a sensor to the side of the screen and then using the matching stylus to manipulate the screen.

I got to play with it for a few minutes at CES 2013. The stylus worked quite well at pretending to be a finger on a real touchscreen, and I can see the value.
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Tactus Morphing Onscreen Keyboard to Hit the Market in Late 2013

January 11th, 2013 by Nate Hoffelder · conferences & trade shows, hardware news → 1 Comment

tactus 3CES is wrapping up today and I made sure to spend a few minutes at  the Tactus booth.

This company burst on to the gadget scene in June 2012 with a new concept for providing tactile feedback for touchscreen keyboards. They’ve developed a way to add inflatable buttons to any standard touchscreen, and today they showed off what a consumer grade Android tablet would look like with their tech installed.
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