Category Archives: displays

150 Euro smart phone Thor Plus available

The smart phone Vernee Thor Plus produced in China and available for 150 Euro list price offers quite good functionality. Next an AMOLED display 5.5″ (1280 x 720 pixel, 16 million colors) with 13 mega pixels, 3 GB RAM it … Continue reading

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Flexible OLED displays are still not as flexible as proposed

Many features where proposed for OLED displays including stable view ankle, great contrasts, energy saving, transparent if needed, cheap and flexible. However, from all these features only a small part was implemented so far. Currently devices with organic OLED displays … Continue reading

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New VR glyph 3D glasses project image directly on retina

The us start-up company Avegant presented at the CES in Las Vegas  its new VR glasses “Glyph“. This glasses differ significantly from other VR glasses due to the fact that it projects the video images directly on the retina of … Continue reading

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Beamer instead of a light bulp

The Californian startup Beam Labs Inc introduced a led beamer which can be used in a standard light bulp socket. This idea was so fascinating, that already more than 640.000 US Dollars have been earned instead of the expected 200.000 … Continue reading

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Asus introduces new memo pad with HD resolution

Asus introduces at the IFA a revised memo pad 7. The Android (Version 4.4 with a highly adapted interface named ZenUI) tablet with the model number ME572C has a 7″ display but a higher resolution than its predecessor, 1920 x … Continue reading

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Already 2013 tablets will overtake PCs

According to a forecast of IDC tablets will take over PCs already in 2013, and this world wide. In Germany this is already reality: in the second quarter of 2013 more tablets have been sold to consumers than PCs. According … Continue reading

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360 degree TV

A new camera, Omnicam360, developed by the researcher Christian Weißig the Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) in Berlin allows the recording of a 360 degrees panorama. This camera placed e.g. in a soccer field enables the user to play camera man for himself. During a … Continue reading

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Apple plans to introduce new iPad tablets

According to a news article from Bloomberg Apple plans to introduce new iPad tablets before X-mas. It is not foreseen to present them together with the new iPhones on 10 September 2013. The new iPad mini should come with a … Continue reading

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Apple works hard on its new iWatch

According to a news paper article of the Financial Times Apple concentrates its man power on developing the new iwatch. This smart watch is subject of speculations for many months. Recently Apple protected the name “iWatch” in several countries. Bloomberg … Continue reading

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Electrowetting technology for eBook color display

According to Bloomberg Samsung thinks of selling their Netherland branch company  Liquavista to amazon for 77 million Euro. Liquavista is known for the development of color displays used for eBooks utilizing the so called Electrowetting technology. Samsung bought this company … Continue reading

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