Philips spins off Liquavista to develop thin Electrowetting displays

by Evan Blass, posted Apr 19th 2006 at 12:21PM

A bunch of venture capitalists have been poking around Philips' R&D labs lately, and it seems that they like what they see. New Venture Partners has joined with the Dutch electronics giant to spin off several companies based on technology first developed by Philips Research, with the first collaboration, Liquavista, being announced today. Based on a thin-display technology called Electrowetting, Liquavista will attempt to integrate its products into DAPs, cellphones, watches, and other portable devices where high brightness and rapid refresh rates are valued (which is like, all of them). Electrowetting supposedly provides better brightness and response time than competing reflective display technologies while using essentially the same manufacturing techniques, and according to a handy comparison chart on MobileRead, is just about the best thing ever. Skeptics will be able to peep the displays for themselves in early June, however, when Liquavista will present some prototypes at the Society for Information Display's 2006 exhibition in San Francisco. [Warning: PDF link]

[Via MobileRead]

Filed under: Displays, Portable Video

Tags: displays, electrowetting, flat panel, FlatPanel, liquavista, new venture partners, NewVenturePartners, philips, portable devices, PortableDevices, Society for Information Display, SocietyForInformationDisplay

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Master @ Apr 19th 2006 12:31PM

yay...even better DAP screens

http://www.houseofchthon.com/

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mvdude @ Apr 19th 2006 1:42PM

It's so exciting that I'm electro-wetting myself.

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Tim Quinn @ Apr 19th 2006 2:07PM

gee, I wonder why that photo is (conspicuously) out of focus.Let's see, brightness good, refresh rate good. hm, they don't mention the quality of the image. Looks a little soft to me, but, oh I see, the whole photo is out of focus. I wonder why they would do that?

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macona @ Apr 19th 2006 4:26PM

Philips? Uh oh.

Bet it has a feature of not letting you use you dap/phone/gadget while there is a commercial on you philips TV!

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/18/philips-patent-app-would-force-you-to-watch-commercials-both-li/

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Perrey Z. @ Apr 20th 2006 3:09AM

#4: What does your stupid comment have to do with the subject of this marvelous invention? i'm sure you will be singing a different tune if it was an Apple or Panasonic invention... VERY glad it's from Philips a true technology innovator.

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