In 2011, Samsung captured consumers’ imagination with an experimental screen that could be bent at will without hurting the display quality. Six years and hundreds of patent applications later, the South Korean mobile giant has reportedly reached a point where it’s all but ready to bring the technology to market. The question that now occupies…
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The Supreme Court will hear Samsung and Apple’s iPhone dispute in October
The tech industry usually doesn’t pay much attention to the happenings at the U.S. Supreme Court, but the October case schedule that was released last Thursday managed to generate a lot of buzz. The agenda includes an oral hearing of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. vs. Apple Inc. No. 15-777, a long-running patent dispute that could have…
LG is taking holograms mobile
Samsung is no longer the one only mobile holography game in town. Only a few short months after a patent application revealed that the Seoul-based electronics giant is experimenting with miniaturized projection technology that could allow its phones to display content several inches ahead of the screen, cross-city rival LG has filed over a dozen…
Samsung’s future phone covers will irradiate your screen to clear germs
The competition in the emerging mobile health segment could soon move beyond apps into the physical realm if Samsung follows through on one of its latest patent applications. Detailed inside is a new kind of phone cover that employs technology from the industrial world to clear your screen of germs and other foreign substances every…
Patent filling reveals the Samsung Galaxy S7 iris scanner
The amount of effort that Samsung is putting into building a homegrown iris scanner leaves little room for guesswork about the authentication mechanism in its next generation of mobile devices. The rapid progress on the project has been chronicled in its sprawling paper trail of patent applications, which passed a new milestone on Thursday with…
Samsung has averted the mobile industry’s indium shortage crisis
The proliferation of mobile devices is something of a double-edged sword for manufacturers. On one hand, Apple once again beat sales expectations in its most recent fiscal quarter, but on the other, the enormous demand is rapidly depleting global reserves of the precious metals needed to build the touchscreens common to every smartphone and tablet. At particular…
Samsung’s smart TVs will intelligently zoom when you squint
A new set of specifications that surfaced on the US Patent and Trademark Office’s online database last week reveals that Samsung is taking another shot at applying eye-tracking technology to TVs after its failed attempt to develop a gaze-aware remote, and on a much grander scale. If its efforts bear fruit this time, watching video could get a lot…
Remember the “tall iPhone” parody? Samsung is applying for the rights to make it in real life
It appears that the industrial designers over at Samsung have expanded their creative horizons beyond Apple products to include parodies of Apple products as well, one of which in particular they’ve spent a great deal of effort recreating in a recent patent filing. The result is a retractable monstrosity of a display that could up the ante…
Here’s the ambitious smart TV controller Samsung axed after two years of development
The irony is hard to miss. On the very same day that Variety broke the news Samsung has killed off a secretive internal program to develop a new kind of remote meant to change the way you interact with your TV, one of the first patents from the effort moved a major step closer towards regulatory…
Samsung patents video surveillance software that could help Big Brother spy on you more effectively
We live in an era of intelligent machines. Smart lights. Smart thermometers. Smart watches. The notable exception are cameras, mainly because they usually come attached to other smart devices. But the gap is now finally closing with the help of Samsung, although that may not be necessarily for the better. One of the latest patent filings from its defense subsidiary…