Displays

Manhattan Skyline has announced that Emerging Display Technologies (EDT) will release TFT LCDs to replace those discontinued by Mitsubishi Electric. The Japanese company announced in June 2020 that it will no longer produce small and medium sized TFT LCD modules, used for industrial and automotive applications.   Taiwanese manufacturer, EDT, has grown from a monochrome display manufacturer, to provide a ...

Intelligent face recognition and sensor-controlled temperature recording are integrated in the Smart Panel PC MM8 from Holitech. It is now available from Rutronik UK. The PC is designed to integrate into existing systems to implement access management for private and public areas. It integrates a touch display, a 2Mpixel camera, loudspeaker and temperature sensor. Data synchronisation is via specially developed ...

GTK has partnered with UK fabless chip maker TouchNetix to develop a touch-less user interface that avoide unnecessary contact. TouchNetix’ aXiom chip allows the touchscreen sensor to detect a user’s hand some distance from the screen – Operation can be though a finger held 50 – 60mm from the screen executing tapping, flicking and swiping gestures like those used with ...

UK distributor, Easby Electronics, has received the European Distributor of the Year award from Hicenda Displays. The company’s product manager, Chris Parr was also recognised, receiving the Sales Person of the Year 2020 accolade by Hicenda Displays. Hicenda assessed all its distributors in Europe in accordance with criteria covering sales performance, design activity and quality of service. Hicenda’s global sales ...

TFT LCDs by Futurelabs are now available from Relec Electronics. They are designed for indoor and outdoor use and have in-plane switching (IPS) for wide viewing angles in different lighting conditions. Sizes range from 3.5 inch to 17 inch displays. The viewing angles in a range of lighting conditions in indoor and outdoor applications, such as factory automation, transportation and ...

Newcastle-based Zytronic is to supply rugged 55inch custom touch screens to Italian vending machine maker PharmaShop24. These are huge machines, that vend 255 over-the-counter medicines from what amounts to a small robot-automated warehouse. To fit more product into a fixed space, PharmaShop realised that the traditional vending mechanism, where customers view products directly, was no longer appropriate. Instead, it added a ...

Display Technology, the UK subsidiary of Fortec Elektronik, offers  a touch screen option for the BLO-Line monitors that are certified for fire protection. Integrated touch control is usually ruled out for fire monitors as the fire-protection glass used in the monitors is constructed in such a way that a PCAP touch sensor will not function correctly. The monitors were developed ...

Toshiba is addressing incompatible automotive display interfaces with a pair of bridge ICs. “The number of display panels incorporated into modern vehicles has increased significantly, with infotainment systems often including several different display interface types,” according to the company. “Consequently, some current systems cannot support emerging protocols such as DSI {display serial interface] and eDP [embedded DisplayPort].” The bridge chips ...

Mouser Electronics continues to increase its Pimoroni offering, adding the PIM486 Enviro and the Pirate Audio accessories from the Sheffield-based company. Pimoroni was founded in 2012, designing and manufacturing breakout boards, kits and add-ons for Raspberry Pi and micro:bit. The company name – pronounced Pih-mo-row-knee, is based on ‘pirate, monkey, robot, ninja’ and the company’s mission is to make electronics ...

Schurter has created a small user interface that combines a graphics and video interface with touch and swipe-style gesture controls. The 64mm diameter font panel has a central circular OLED display, described at 128 x 128 by the company, then tough buttons around the edge (at north, south east and west) plus a central touch area. Long and short touches ...