LEDs are used in electronic displays in cars mobile phone screens and TVs.
And critically, in contrast to existing electronic displays, the images thus created do not disappear if the power is turned off.
And for the more flamboyant, there are dresses implanted with electronic displays that project your latest social media updates onto the fabric.
Light pollution can come from TV and computer screens, other electronic displays and ambient sources such as streetlights, passing traffic and neighboring buildings, in addition to overhead lighting within the home.
Nanosys, Inc. is an advanced material architect, harnessing the fundamental properties of inorganic materials into process ready systems that can integrate into existing manufacturing to produce vastly superior products in lighting, electronic displays, solar power and energy storage.
One thing's for sure -- monochrome electronic ink displays are not the future of e-readers.
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The Q, N, E, F, and L lines, as well as most of the trains on the J and Z lines, already have models with electronic map displays, bright blue seats and frosty air conditioning.
In collaboration with the NPD Group, its parent company, DisplaySearch uniquely offers a true end-to-end view of the display supply chain from materials and components to shipments of electronic devices with displays to sales of major consumer and commercial channels.
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Plastic Logic's first commercial application is likely to be as backplanes for liquid-crystal displays or electronic paper.
"Most current electronic products have LCD displays that are power hogs and provide picture quality that, as we all know, leaves a lot to be desired, " explains CEO Dr. Christopher Morton.
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It has expanded into different types of displays, including screen displays for a Motorola phone, an electronic display for a usb device made by Lexar and, finally, watch displays.
Next on the company's list are displays for handheld computers and other electronic devices.
These electronic pages use less power than liquid crystal displays and also look more like printed paper.
Technologies such as electronic ink, 3D controllers, flexible displays, voice recognition and solid-state mass storage are rapidly approaching mass market commercialization price points.
The same applies to the recent Apple patent for a wrap around display on an electronic device, which specifically relates to flexible AMOLED displays.
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They used incandescent lamps to display stats, the same technology Daktronics relied on for the next 25 years, through an exclusive contract to provide the scoreboards for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, large displays for Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and an electronic voting system for the U.N.
Touch-screen displays let visitors explore the features of bank notes and electronic tickers.
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LCDs, or liquid crystal displays, are used in many of today's electronic devices, including smartphones, TV screens, computer monitors, laptops and tablet computers.
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This is why most improvements in bizjets during the last 40 years have come from outside the industry--electronic engine controls, global-positioning satellites, moving-map displays, downloadable real-time weather, etc.
But the combination of organic electronic backplanes and electrophoretic frontplanes could produce truly rollable, albeit monochrome, displays in the not-too-distant future.
Electrophoretic displays work in a different way, using a form of electronic ink that has been under development since the 1970s.
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That is because electronic paper does not need backlighting in the way that liquid-crystal displays do (see article) and making beads or capsules change colour does not take much energy.
Although Mr Peruvemba says his firm has started manufacturing displays with flexible backplanes in-house, its many partners are also busy researching ways to make electronic paper as flexible as the real thing.
The team of Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST has developed a high performance flexible all-solid-state battery, an essential energy source for flexible displays (see paper in Nano Letters: "Bendable Inorganic Thin-Film Battery for Fully Flexible Electronic Systems").
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