Oculus Rift’s DK2 shipment just begins
Oculus, an American VR business, began shipment of the 2nd generation product, DK2.
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LG Display successfully developed world’s first flexible and also transparent OLED.
LG Display succeeded in developing world’s first flexible and transparent OLED.
Merger between COMEDD and Fraunhofer FEP
Fraunhofer FEP announced its merger with COMEDD, a research institute of Fraunhofer on July 5th.
Automobile Industry, will it be the foundation of OLED industry?
The use of OLED is now expected to be extended from interior light and rear lamp to display of automobiles.
LG Electronics’ 77” Curved OLED TV for￡20,000
LG Electronics’ 77” UHD curved OLED TV displayed at CES 2014 attracted attention of many foreign visitors. …
Universal Display, concluded a contract to supply PHOLED material to BOE
A Taiwanese IT medium, Digitimes, reported that Universal Display Corporation (UDC) had announced its expanded evaluation agreement for PHOLED material supply to BOE.
Samsung, introducing ‘Galaxy S5 mini’ targeting the world market
Samsung Electronics announced Galaxy S5 mini, a new Galaxy series. Its design is similar to the previous model but not the specifications.
Yamagata University develops low-voltage blue phosphorescence material
According to a Japanese media, Nikkei, organic device engineering professor Junji Kido of Yamagata University has developed a low-voltage blue phosphorescent material.
Skyrocketing interest of Panel makers in blooming smart watch market
Set makers are launching various smart watch products such as Galaxy Gear and Gear Fit by Samsung and G-Watch by LG after the smart watch by Sony. …
UDC’s New Technology, Improving lifespan and power consumption of OLED Display
UDC presented a paper on a new technology that reduces power consumption and increases lifespan than the existing RGB-FMM method at SID 2014. …
LG Display’s winning move, OLED TV Price
LG Display (LGD) actively competes in TV market by reducing OLED TV price. …
Samsung Display’s super AMOLED of Galaxy Tap S scored the highest ever
Galaxy Tap S, which applied Samsung Display’s (SDC) super AMOLED panel, recorded the highest score of Excellent A in the comprehensive evaluation by a professional display group in the U.S., DisplayMate. …
Finding a way for OLED industry in flexible
Samsung is preparing to introduce foldable AMOLED panel applied mobile product, and LG will release a new product with the flexible AMOLED panel in the latter half of this year.
As the flexible OLED commercializes, its R&D also accelerates. It was analyzed that the trend of papers published at SID 2014 is the flexible OLED as 9 more papers totaling 23 regarding the flexible OLED were published at SID 2014 than 14 papers 2013.
Imminent release of the world’s first hybrid smart watch, TalkBand, in UK
TalkBand, a band type wearable device released by Hauwei at MWC 2014 in the last February, is introduced on Amazon, a large online retailer.
One of the TalkBand’s strength is that it can be transformed into a Bluetooth earphone and that gave a title of the world’s first hybrid smart watch to the TalkBand. 1.4” Curved PMOLED by Futaba is applied to the TalkBand. It is expected to draw more customers’ attention by adding a health care feature (tracking calorie intake, sleep pattern and fitness).
DOE, Announcing New OLED lighting Project
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced its selection of nine (9) solid-state lighting (SSL) R&D projects. Four out nine projects are related to OLED lighting and selected companies/universities to run the projects are OLED Works, Pixelligent Technologies, Princeton University, and University of California. The project funding will be over $13.7 million (DOE funding, $10.5 million) and funding for each project was not revealed. It is expected that these one-to two-year projects will accelerate cost reduction of SSL technology and improvement of quality and performance.
‘Galaxy Tap S’ is finally unveiled. Targeting the market with differentiated AMOLED picture quality
Samsung Electronics (SSE) unveiled ‘Galaxy Tap S,’ which is the strategic premium tablet PC of SSE, at an event of ‘Galaxy Premiere 2014’ held in New York, U.S.A on 12th. Excellent color sensitivity of the ‘Galaxy Tap S’ panel was emphasized on the previously introduced teaser trailer with a copy of ‘Tab/Tap Into Color’ by applying AMOLED panel. Good color reproduction, high contrast and fast response speed as well as differentiated picture quality from the existing LCD panel are the strengths to be used to target the market.
Apple’s iWatch with flexible AMOLED will be on the market in October
Apple Inc. plans to release a new product, Smart Watch (iWatch) in October. According to Nihon Geizai Shimnun, iOS 8 combined iWatch will be on the market in this October and 3 to 5 million iWatches will be produced monthly. An IT specialized media, recode.net, also reported that ‘tentatively, Apple Inc. will host a special event in October and unveil a wearable device.’
OLED lighting, replacing LED is in the not too distant future
At SID2014, it was proved that OLED lighting has competitiveness in terms of efficiency and can compete with LED for the general lighting.
Konica Minolta developed 131lm/W OLED lighting panel last March. It also released an OLED lighting panel with efficacy of 139lm/W at the SID 2014 and drew more attention. Panasonic also presented on OLED, and drew more attention unveiling a prototype in Author interview.
Imminent release of AMOLED Tablet PC by Samsung
Samsung Display (SDC) unveiled AMOLED panels for 8” and 10” tablet PCs, which is known to be on the market by Samsung Electronics (SSE) from this July.