DisplaySearch Sponsors Advanced Display Technologies TechZone at CES 2009

Austin, Texas, January 5, 2009—DisplaySearch, the worldwide leader in display market research, today provided a sneak preview of its upcoming Advanced Display Technologies TechZone showcase during CES International Show and Conference 2009. Specifically, the exhibit will feature the latest developments in all advanced display and component technologies.

“Displays have become one of the most prominent components in today’s electronic devices. Whether it’s a mobile phone, mini-note, TV, medical device, watch or a micro-projector—a flat panel display is at the heart of the device,” noted Carl Holec, DisplaySearch Director of Client Development. “DisplaySearch is proud to sponsor the Advanced Display Technology Zone for the second consecutive year to help promote some of the latest display technologies and our unparalleled market outlook.”

Advanced Display Technologies TechZone Exhibits

DisplaySearch, Booth # South 1 21422
DisplaySearch, an NPD Group company, produces a valued suite of FPD-related market forecasts, technology assessments, surveys, studies, analyses and organizes influential events worldwide. Headquartered in Austin, TX, DisplaySearch also has 10 regional offices throughout the US, Europe and Asia. At CES, the company will showcase some of its newest market research reports, including the recent Ultra-Slim Flat Panel TV Market Outlook, The Emitter: Emerging Display Technologies monthly report, and the Mini-Note PC Market Analysis.

3M, Booth # South 1 21417
As the global pacesetter in the portable projection systems, 3M offers a family of solutions for both consumer and professional applications. Stop by the 3M booth at the CES TechZone to see some of the latest offerings including 3M Super Close Projectors, the 3M MPro110 microprofessional projector and other micro projector engines and components that can be easily integrated into a variety of devices from cell phones and PDAs to digital cameras.

Artificial Muscle, Inc., Booth # South 1 21622
Artificial Muscle, Inc. (AMI) will demonstrate its newest haptics technology, based on its latest smartTOUCH actuator technology at the Display Technology Zone during CES. The new smartTOUCH actuators enable customization and programming of haptics effects and vibratory feedback into products ranging from the latest handheld multimedia devices to medical instrumentation displays to toys. This new smartTOUCH actuator technology revolutionizes tactile feedback and vibratory applications by enabling a whole new world of alternatives to the “clicks” and “buzzes” of traditional actuator technologies.

Butterfly Technology (Shenzhen) Ltd, Booth # South 1 21429
Butterfly Technology is a leading optical component and module manufacturer worldwide and among the first companies to have successfully developed micro-projectors based on micro-display technologies. They will demonstrate their latest micro-projectors at CES, which include the first projector mobile phone in the world, a pocket business projector with high resolution, and all sorts of tight and tiny project modules with high lumen and contrast that can be embedded in PCs, DVDs, mobile phones, DV, PSP, MP4 and other toys.

Liquavista, Booth # South 1 21421
Liquavista’s screens produce bright, colorful images ensuring excellent indoor and outdoor viewability and show video content with very low power and are ideally suited for a wide variety of portable and mobile applications such as phones, watches, cameras, DVD players and automotive applications. Liquavista will be showing their first generation products, Liquavista ColorBright, which offer new legibility and design freedom to creators of design-led electronic products.

Microvision, Inc. Booth # South 1 21619 & Booth # South 4 35776MP
Microvision provides organizations an ultra-miniature laser projection module, the PicoP™ display engine. The PicoP display engine can be designed as a stand-alone accessory Pico Projector, or embedded directly into mobile devices such as mobile phones, automotive displays, gaming and wearable displays. The PicoP display engine can even enable various forms of direct contact measurement. The company will be demonstrating a variety of applications enabled by this exciting new laser display technology.

TDVision Systems Inc., Booth # South 1 21425
TDVision Systems will be showing the world's only 2D/3D compatible stereoscopic distribution format for broadcast, Blu-ray and multiple delivery channels. Dazzling 1920 × 1080 per-eye 3D video along with 7.1 channel amounts to the ultimate 3D at-home experience. Other technologies for delivering 3D video squeeze both views into a single 1920 × 1080 frame—effectively cutting the resolution in half! TDVision takes advantage of similar information between the two stereoscopic views to provide high compression with exceptionally superior quality. This format is fully compatible with all traditional content delivery pipelines and is the only fully-patented and MPEG-compatible 3D encoding method in the world.

About DisplaySearch
DisplaySearch, an NPD Group Company, has a core team of 59 employees located in Europe, North America and Asia who produce a valued suite of FPD-related market forecasts, technology assessments, surveys, studies and analyses. Visit the DisplaySearch blog to read about how our top analysts are interpreting up-to-the-minute issues that impact the display industry, and join us in this discussion about technology and the flat panel industry. The company also organizes influential events worldwide. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, DisplaySearch has regional operations in Chicago, Houston, Kyoto, London, San Diego, San Jose, Seoul, Shenzhen, Taipei and Tokyo, and the company is on the web at http://www.displaysearch.com/.

About The NPD Group, Inc.
The NPD Group is the leading provider of reliable and comprehensive consumer and retail information for a wide range of industries. Today, more than 1,600 manufacturers, retailers and service companies rely on NPD to help them drive critical business decisions at the global, national and local market levels. NPD helps our clients to identify new business opportunities and guide product development, marketing, sales, merchandising and other functions. Information is available for the following industry sectors: automotive, beauty, commercial technology, consumer technology, entertainment, fashion, food and beverage, foodservice, home, office supplies, software, sports, toys and wireless. For more information, visit http://www.npd.com/.