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Apple went for oleds in Vision Pro

Apple Vision Pro AR headset on human

As soon as it was announced, I was dying to see what type of display Apple has used in the Vision Pro augmented reality headset. And its website says: a pair of micro-oled displays, with resolution above 4K I was hoping for a micro-led display – ie, inorganic semiconductor – as this is a very interesting technology. Maybe this tells ...

Experimental process makes much of a wind turbine blade recyclable

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Wind turbine blades can be recycled, at least partially, accoriding to researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark. The chemical process disassembles epoxy composite, releasing intact glass fibres and extracting one of the chemical component of the resin. Both are as good as new materials, according to the university, which added that the process could also be used with some materials ...

Updated: 500 terabytes of data on a CD, almost

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The University of Southampton is storing data onto glass at a density that would squeeze 500Tbyte onto a substrate the size of a CD. Data is written as miniature shapes through the bulk of silica glass using the three spatial dimensions. The shapes have two separate optical characteristics – adding two more dimensions – making this so-called five-dimensional (‘5d’) data storage. ...

UK made: Transparent power delivery for glass

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Zytronic of Newcastle has introduced a way of delivering power through glass invisibly, calling it Electroglaz. “Electroglaz is completely transparent and can be used to ‘magically’ power a near limitless variety of low power, electronic and electrotechnical devices embedded within a glass panel,” said company marketing director Ian Crosby. “Potential applications include LED lit display cases and shelving units for museums, ...

Optoscribe launches OptoArray fiber alignment arrays

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Optoscribe has announced a range of fiber alignment structures called OptoArray, which offers “unrivalled levels of optical performance through the precise alignment of optical fiber arrays”. The manufacturer says its product range can help reduce losses in optical circuits through the precise and stable alignment of fibers. This is particularly important given the demand for increasing levels of high density ...

The best museum I ever went to

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A long while ago, I went to the Corning Museum of Glass, in the town of Corning, in up-state New York. For a techie like me, it was a spell-binding place. If I have to pick two wonderful exhibits: One was the huge (5m, possibly) telescope mirror blank, made from Pyrex and once destined for the Palomar observatory, the cooling ...

Solar facades need to last longer

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Longer life with good transparency will need to be achieved if solar facades are to become common on buildings, according to a report by market research company IDTechEx. ‘Smart glass and windows 2018-2028: Electronic shading and semi-transparent PV‘ identifies gigawatt hour potential from glass building cladding and windows that include photovoltaic layers, but identifies multiple factors holding back deployment. Thinned crystalline ...

Optical memory lasts for billions of years, say ORC researchers

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights will probably last longer than humans on Earth, said the University of Southampton, whose Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) has written it into a medium that will last 13.8 billion years (at 160°C). The file is written into a block of quartz by a femtosecond laser as three layers of nano-structured dots . “The self-assembled nano-structures ...

Wearable electronics: let’s get it right

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Wearable electronic device technology is potentially more than just another smartphone accessory, according to a report by Beecham Research. Saverio Romeo, principal analyst at Beecham Research says mistakes are being made by many companies trying to grab a share of the much hyped wearable technology opportunity. Romeo says it is wrong to take  a smartphone-centric view of wearable technology, and he sees wearable ...