A newly developed light shutter may pave the way for see-through displays and smart windows The secret desire of urban daydreamers staring out their office windows at the sad brick walls of... Read more
Future fitness trackers could soon add blood-oxygen levels to the list of vital signs measured with new technology developed by engineers at UC Berkeley “There are various pulse oximeters al... Read more
University of Utah engineers have developed a polarizing filter that allows in more light, leading the way for mobile device displays that last much longer on a single battery charge and cam... Read more
LCD technology developed in Hong Kong maintains the 3D images it displays without drawing power At first glance, the static, greyscale display created by a group of researchers from the Hong... Read more
The quest to create artificial “squid skin” — camouflaging metamaterials that can “see” colors and automatically blend into the background — is one step closer to reality, thanks to a breakt... Read more
As tech company LG demonstrated this summer with the unveiling of its 18-inch flexible screen, the next generation of roll-up displays is tantalizingly close. Researchers are now reporting i... Read more
New techniques magnify images without requiring bulky zoom lenses Imagine giving a presentation to a roomful of important customers when suddenly the projector fails. You whip out your smart... Read more
Details of a touchscreen showing 3D images that can be felt and manipulated have been published by Microsoft’s research unit. The project combines an LCD flat panel screen with force s... Read more
It looks like nothing more than a square sheet of glass. When it comes to HDTV placement, you’ve generally faced with two options – a stand for sitting the TV in an entertainment unit or on... Read more
It’s a point-and-shoot camera that creates digital 3D models of whatever it’s pointed at It may look like a rather beefy tablet, but the Lynx A is actually a device that could make life easi... Read more
Curved LCD display holds widespread potential for medical and cosmetic applications The Centre of Microsystems Technology (CMST), imec’s associated laboratory at Ghent University (Belgium),... Read more
LG has just shown off the world’s first 84-inch Ultra Definition (UD) LCD interactive whiteboard, and it’s truly something to behold. The technology is being geared towards schoo... Read more
A new method for producing multiple-perspective 3-D images could prove more practical in the short term than holography. As striking as it is, the illusion of depth now routinely offered by... Read more
A seemingly ordinary, transparent piece of glass suddenly illuminates with video A seemingly ordinary, transparent piece of glass suddenly illuminates with video. It’s Samsung’s... Read more
The world’s first plastic EPD LG has made no secret of its fondness for flexible e-paper, but those dreams became a reality today, with the announcement of a six-inch display that prom... Read more
