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Video glasses, or personal displays, are set to be the next big thing. The market for the delivery of information and entertainment on the move is predicted to follow personal audio as one of the fastest growing sectors of the electronics industry.
Just as MP3 players – and, before them, the portable cd player – have made music a ‘go anywhere’ experience, so personal video players are becoming available, allowing the user to play games, watch movies and view sport on the move.
Already, portable multimedia players are successes. Apple has sold more than 100million iPods worldwide – a growing fraction of them video enabled – and, in its wake, have come hundreds of competitors. The latest update of Sony’s PSP, meanwhile, has a tv out socket.
Yet there are millions more potential consumers who will be attracted by improvements in image quality, screen size and battery life – all of which would provide an enhanced viewing experience.
There is also substantial demand for the delivery of multimedia content over mobile phones. Worldwide sales of video enabled mobiles are expected to more than double by 2010 compared with sales today, according to a report from Infonetics Research. Sales of video phones with powerful capabilities are predicted grow to about $125billion by 2010 from nearly $58bn in 2006, and the number of subscribers to mobile tv and video is expected to increase to 58.6m in 2010.
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Professor Ian Underwood, Chief scientific adviser and co-founder of MicroEmissive Displays will join the panel at the Grand Challenges for Emerging Technologies in Displays seminar in Cambridge. Professor Underwood will be participating in the discussion on “Future Technologies” on Wednesday 30th January at 12:00.

The two day event, run by the UK Display and Lighting Knowledge Transfer Network, will present a vision of the future of the displays industry and identify the technical breakthroughs needed to make that vision a reality. The event aims to provide invaluable information for researchers, investors and industry insiders who want to understand industrial priorities and identify emerging significant research.

On day 1 key industrialists and academics from companies and institutions including University of Cambridge, University of Wales, Imperial College, Electrosonic, Plastic Logic, Pelikon, GEM and Hewlett Packard will present the Grand Challenges facing the displays industry. On day 2 leading academics will present the Emerging Technologies that will face up to these challenges.

The event takes place at The Møller Centre, Storey’s Way, Cambridge on the 30th and 31st of January.

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