Born in 1940, computer scientist Alan Curtis Kay is one of a handful of visionaries most responsible for the concepts which have propelled personal computing forward over the past thirty years - and surely the most quotable one.

Philips, the world's biggest lighting maker, has reported a 38% jump in first quarter LED sales from a year earlier.

The Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium has released its Model Specification for Adaptive Control and Remote Monitoring of LED Roadway Luminaires aimed at helping municipalities and utilities maximize energy savings.

Every day the consumer becomes more and more involved in a digital world. From movie screens, TVs and PCs to smartphones, tablets and digital signage, the screens are converging on several levels.

Meldaikyte's mixed-media exhibit reimagines the language of smartphone communication as sculptures; there's pinching, tapping, scrolling, flicking and swiping.

Pixelligent Technologies, a manufacturer of nanocrystal additives for the electronics and semiconductor markets, recently announced the launch of its PixClear Zirconia nanocrystals. When incorporated into existing products, the nanoadditives can dramatically increase light output and readability of modern touch screens and displays.

Samsung's internal practices and external strategies-from how TVs are designed to the company's philosophy of "perpetual crisis"-all spring from the codified teachings of the chairman.

Eastman Kodak has agreed to sell document-imaging assets to Japanese office-equipment company Brother Industries for about US$210 million, setting the minimum bid for an auction.

Japan-based Sony has managed to slash the operating loss in its television business by half in the just-ended fiscal year by reducing fixed costs and narrowing its product lineup, a company executive said Thursday--a significant improvement even though the segment has lost money for a ninth year in a row, the Nikkei reported.

Increased spending in NAND and flash by Micron, LEDs by Philips and Osram, and continued investments by Globalfoundries will create new opportunities for equipment and materials suppliers in Southeast Asia.

Digital convergence is rapidly coming to lighting as component makers pave the way for customizable, networked lamps.

China's economic growth slowed unexpectedly in the first quarter, raising concerns that a recovery that started in the second half of last year is already losing steam.

Young children-even toddlers-are spending more and more time with digital technology. What will it mean for their development?

A new kind of endoscope technology with a factor of four image improvement over any previous design has recently been demonstrated by researchers from Stanford University. It may lead to flexible endoscopes producing about 80,000 pixels at a resolution of three-tenths of a micron, as compared to 10,000 pixels at three micron resolution for current state of the art.

If you've been following all of the Galaxy S4 rumors and leaks then you've probably come across the term PHOLED display a couple of times by now.

Imaging colorimetry-based testing systems have demonstrated success in improving quality and reducing production costs for LCD displays and LED display screens. Radiant Zemax has extended these proven techniques to OLED display production testing.

Over a week has passed since Google's (GOOG) Sergey Brin made his charismatic presentation featuring Google Glass. Since that time (and after intense public discussion), most experts now agree that Himax (HIMX) is likely powering Google's revolutionary eyewear. Thus, the public investor debate is now turning to "does it matter?" Indeed, that is the right question.

Our start-up to watch this week is University of Limerick spin-out ALR Innovations, a developer of recycling equipment for liquid crystal displays (LCDs) in worldwide markets.

Nintendo's latest 3DS video game console infringes a patent of a former Sony employee Seijiro Tomita, a federal jury found recently.

Gizmodo friend and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet recently swapped out his Canon 1D X for a Canon A2e - a film camera he hadn't touched in 14 years. Restrained by only a roll of 36 exposures, Laforet actually loved going back to shooting with film.

All so-called LED TVs are really just LCD TVs that use LEDs for their backlight. This backlight creates the light that allows the LCD to create an image. However, there are multiple ways these LED backlights can be arranged, and that arrangement can have a dramatic effect on picture quality.

Stereoscopic or 3D displays-such as stereoscopic LED displays with polarized glasses or multi-layer 3D displays-allow a viewer to perceive the depth of an image to provide a richer viewing experience.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) (Berlin, Germany) has published the results of a new 3D surgical study to test surgeon's ability to perform tasks like tying a knot during laprascopic surgery using 3D cameras and displays.

A new kind of three-dimensional display developed at HP Labs plays hologram-like videos without the need for any moving parts or glasses.

Now that another major lay-off wave is about to hit Motorola, it's perhaps time to contemplate how the dominant company in a major industry sometimes misreads the most important consumer trends.

"Furthermore, Digitimes Research published in January suggests that by the end of 2014, global sales of UHDTVs could pass the 10 million mark, despite their high price tags, humongous screens and lack of native content."

Blackberry CEO Thorsten Heins said at the Australian BlackBerry Z10 launch this week. "How can we really add value?" Okay, cool. But did he tell the rest of his company? I'm asking, because Thorsten's director of product management just told a very different story.

Thailand plans to distribute about 1.7 million tablet computers to students and teachers this year in the world's largest handout of the devices for education, officials said Thursday.