Zecotek Photonics (ZMS-T) Top pick BNN.ca Jan 31, '14 @ 1300ET Robert McWhirter
ZMS $55 million market cap. Waiting for results of Markman hearing in lawsuit versus Philips and Siant-Gobain. Potential sales with partner Hamatsu Photonics (Japan) for the CERN collide in Switzerland. Zecotek announced today that they are designing a 3D printer interface that provides the ability to see a true (glasses free) 3D image from all perspectives. 3D printer sales and service revenues are $2 billion today and are expected to double by 2015 to $4 billion and more than double again to $10 billion by 2021.
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Jan 31, '14 - NR
Zecotek Photonics Inc.'s wholly owned subsidiary Zecotek Display Systems Pte. Ltd. is designing a unique 3-D printing interface platform between existing and future generations of 3-D printers and its own patented 3-D display technology. The 3-D printing platform offers significant design, cost and time advantages when Zecotek's glasses-free, autostereoscopic, multiview, HD 3-D display is used with commercial 3-D printers for the creation of solid objects used in rapid and manufacturing prototyping.
"Zecotek's 3-D display technology creates significant advantages in the design process related to 3-D printing," said Dr. A.F. Zerrouk, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Zecotek Photonics. "By creating a user interface between the 3-D printer and our own patented 3-D display, we offer end-users the most realistic view of the solid object being created on the printer. Individual or multiple users will have the ability to view the object in full 3-D, from all perspectives, and edit the object as desired. The interface will have a rich variety of interactive features and offer the ability to see a true 3-D image during the design process which can save both time, material and cost."
Three-dimensional printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is the process of making three-dimensional solid objects from a digital model by laying down successive layers of material in different shapes. The first 3-D printer was introduced in 1984, and it took approximately 20 years for the industry to grow to $1-billion in sales. It has taken another five years for total annual sales and service of 3-D printers to reach $2-billion. Leading industry analysts predict significant growth with annual sales of 3-D printing reaching $4-billion by 2015, and over $10-billion by 2021.
The reason for the rapid growth in the market is due to the improving performance of additive equipment and the expanding range of materials being used. Three-dimensional printing has now become cheaper and more customizable than regular manufacturing methods. Meanwhile, prices for both printers and materials are dropping to a point where rapid adoption by consumers is a distinct possibility.
Today, 3-D printing technology is used for both prototyping and distributed manufacturing with applications in many industries including dental, medical, biotech, architecture, industrial design, aerospace, military, civil engineering, geographic information systems and countless other fields.
Zecotek Display Systems' commercialization program is to initially subcontract the production of the 3-D display units interfaced with the 3-D printers and with the associated software for sale to end-users. Subsequent mass production and sales will be done through a strategic partnership.
About Zecotek's 3-D display system
Zecotek's 3-D display system is based on the autostereoscopic principle, but with substantial innovative and patented improvements and represents a new and unique generation of 3-D displays. It has the capability of simultaneously presenting 3-D and 2-D images on the same screen, and for separate views at different viewing angles. Zecotek's true, autostereoscopic 3-D/2-D display system requires no eyewear and has an effective viewing angle of 40 degrees with 90 concurrent perspectives allowing for multiple views at the same time. Another unique feature of the Zecotek system is constant motion parallax within the viewing angle. Motion parallax eliminates the sense of imbalance and dizziness during normal observation which can occur with polarized and shutter glasses used with other commercial systems. Furthermore, Zecotek's 3-D display features the preservation of the base resolution in every perspective view irrespective of the number of such views. This is not true for any other glasses-free displays where the base resolution is divided by the number of views. Zecotek's white paper on 3-D display technology is available on the company's website. |
