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Ray Tracing May be Accelerated by 150X

by Bob Raikes

A hat tip to Jon Peddie’s TechWatch for reporting on new AR/VR-oriented ray tracing. Ray tracing is capable of creating scenes and objects that are genuinely photo-realistic, but takes a huge amount of processor …

Micro Center Introduces PowerSpec Gaming Notebooks

by Bob Raikes

Micro Center in the US is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its PowerSpec desktop computer brand by offering the first PowerSpec mobile computers ever – the PowerSpec 1710 and 1510 gaming notebooks. PowerSpec’s 1st …

MBO at LED Specialist ICT

by Bob Raikes

ICT AG of Germany, an LED specialist, have completed an MBO that means that the founders have sold to two management board members and the company, which has grown from 110 staff in 2013 …

Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| LED| Vol 24 - Issue 41

IDC Looks at China’s eTailer Trends for Devices in 2017

by Bob Raikes

IDC released some data on the eTailer market in China. We have included a couple of charts, but if you are interested in printers, PCs and other categories, including VR and tablets, it’s worth …

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Close to GTX 1080

by Bob Raikes

Nvidia has introduced the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti which joins the Pascal gaming line up between the GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070. Memory is 8GB and the board design is intended to be …

Tags:GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 24 - Issue 41

AOT Offering Mini-LEDs for BLUs

by Bob Raikes

Local sources say that Taiwan-based Advanced Optoelectronic Technology Inc said in its investor conference that it planned to develop mini LEDs for backlighting in TVs. Although the technology is likely to be more expensive …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Court Overturns Vodafone/Ziggo Approval

by Bob Raikes

The EU’s General Court has overturned the approval of the merger between Vodafone and Ziggo in the Netherlands, after an appeal by KPN. (Reuters: EC Will Approve Vodafone/Liberty Deal) The European Commission had approved …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Vodafone| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Zwim Developing HUD for Swimmers

by Bob Raikes

Zwim from South Korea has developed a pair of goggles for swimmers and with an integrated HUD. The group has started an Indiegogo project and had raise $12,400 from a goal of $20,000 when …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| Sports and Stadiums| Vol 24 - Issue 41

A Mixed Week for OLED

by Bob Raikes

OLEDs, and, in particular, OLED TV took up a fair amount of my time this week, as I attended the LG OLED Day (which was nearly all about TV) in Munich and spent some …

X-Rite Colour Management is Complete

by Bob Raikes

X-Rite Incorporated, the specialist in colour management and measurement technologies, announced i1Studio, a new colour management solution that is intended to deliver “expert” colour results from capture to print for photographers, filmmakers and designers. …

Tags:Colour Management & Processing| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 41

The Boogie Board gets Bigger

by Bob Raikes

Just in time for the 2017 holiday season, comes a new electronic writing tool – Blackboard by Boogie Board which uses a concept of ‘Liquid Crystal Paper’. Like every Boogie Board before it, Blackboard …

Tags:Cholesteric| ePaper| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 40

Optoma Adds Short Throw Lamp-based Projector Range

by Bob Raikes

Optoma has added a new short throw range for its 515 lamp-based DLP projector series. The new range includes WXGA at 5500 lumens, Full HD 1080p at 5000 lumens and WUXGA at 5500 lumens. …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Optoma| UST Projectors| Vol 24 - Issue 40