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SID Dispay Week: Samsung color epaper, transparent LCDs

June 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · conferences & trade shows, hardware news

By Charlie Dulin of Dulin’s Books Samsung had two display windows in its booth highlighting 10.1” flexible epaper displays. They use a plastic substrate and backplane and displayed in B&W as well as color. The color display was shown in a two “page” device with the color on the left and the B&W on the [...]

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SID Display Week: Bridgestone demo new screen tech (video)

June 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · conferences & trade shows, hardware news

By Charlie Dulin of Dulin’s Books Bridgestone was showing off their Quick Response Liquid Powder Display, QR-LPD, at SID Display Week.  It’s very similar tech to SiPix epaper in that it uses an embossed grid structure to form the pixels and then the “ink” material fills the grid.  There is a reason whythe tech is [...]

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SID Display Week Photo Gallery

May 31st, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows

I realized shortly after I posted on Qualcomm and LG that some of our readers might be interested in the photo gallery. You can find the collection on Picasa. I’m pointing you at the source images, and some are awfully raw. Others will need explanation. Le tme give you an example of why you should [...]

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Sid Display Week: LG Display color epaper in 4 sizes

May 31st, 2010 · 3 Comments · conferences & trade shows, hardware news

by Charlie Dulin of Dulin’s Books LG was showing of four epaper displays at SID Display Week 2010. There were four different sizes shown 6”, 9.7”, 11.5” and 19”. “GIP” was one new technology they were showing off in both the 6” and 19”. They’ve combined several existing functions into fewer components allowing them to [...]

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SID Display Week: Qualcomm Mirasol screen

May 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · conferences & trade shows, hardware news

by Charlie Dulin of Dulin’s Books Qualcomm had a barista in their booth making any kind of coffee drink you could think, but the Mirasol displays showcased were getting just as much attention. They had several stations showing off video or static content on their 5.7” reader reference design. The video looked slightly faster than [...]

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SID Display Week 2010: Day 1

May 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · conferences & trade shows

by Charlie Dulin of Dulin’s Books This post is from Wednesday. It was posted late due to problems with email. First Day at SID Display week was different than I might have expected. I only had CES to compare it to, and I was expecting something a little different. However, this is not a consumer [...]

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SID DisplayWeek 2010 to Highlight Epaper, Flexible screens

April 8th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows

From the press release: The Society for Information Display (SID), the leading global organization dedicated to the advancement of electronic display technology, together with DisplaySearch, the worldwide leader in display market research, today provided a glimpse of the closing session focused on e-paper and flexible displays for its upcoming Business Conference, which will be held [...]

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