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Acer Gaming Notebook has Unusual Touchpad

by Bob Raikes

At Computex, Acer has shown the Predator Triton 700 gaming notebook which uses a 15.6″ FullHD IPS display in an 18.9mm thick case. Unusually, the keyboard is on the front edge of the base, …

BC01 DSCC Business Conference is Successful

by Bob Raikes

Yong-Seog Kim, the President of the SID, opened the Business Conference, which took place on the day before the main exhibition and Symposium, by saying that the industry is in a great period of …

IHS Updates on Digital Signage

by Bob Raikes

IHS Markit creates some data for the Digital Signage Federation members and we noted that this has been published by sixteen-nine.net. The blog reports: “All avenues of the digital signage ecosystem finished 2016 with …

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Digital Signage Payback in One Month

by Bob Raikes

As I mentioned last week, we are always looking for examples of a quick ROI on digital signage. A nod, then, to the sixteen-nine.net blog for highlighting an example of a one month payback …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Westgate Updates DOOH to Signagelive

by Bob Raikes

The Westgate Hotel in Las Vegas (referred to often by its old name as the Las Vegas Hilton) next to the convention centre, already has a very large LED wall from Christie in its …

Apachie Deal on Smartphone Holder

by Bob Raikes

Groupon has a deal at the time of writing for a very low cost Apachie smartphone-based VR headset – reduced from £59.99 to £4.99 ($6.50).

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Pricing| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Airport Gatwick uses Beacons and Augmented Reality

by Bob Raikes

London’s Gatwick Airport has installed 2,000 beacons to provide an indoor navigation system as part of a major investment update. The technology is being integrated into apps for the airport and is intended to …

Samsung Galaxy Feel For Japan

by Bob Raikes

Samsung will launch a new Android smartphone in Japan with the Galaxy Feel name and provided through NTT Docomo. The phone is a mid-level device with a 4.7″ AMOLED display, with 3GB of RAM, …

Tags:Japan| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 22

JDI Innovates with LTPS, Flexible and OLED

by Bob Raikes

Visiting JDI at SID is always a challenge – there is always so much to see and so much of it is both innovative and genuinely interesting to specialist display geeks like us. We …

E Ink To End LCD Completely

by Bob Raikes

E Ink said in March that it was improving profitability by moving away from LCD production to focus completely on its EPD technology (E Ink Benefits from Strategic Change). Now at an investors’ conference …

Tags:E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Display Week Buzzes with New Technology

by Bob Raikes

Phew! It’s been a busy week with the SID Display Week plus some admin issues – not quite the full Wannacry or BA IT disaster, but I had the joy of helping our IT …

New HTC Link VR Headset Available only in Japan

by Bob Raikes

HTC has shown a new VR headset that uses the U11 smartphone (HTC U11 Beats Google Pixel) for processing and includes a 6DOF tracking system. A stereo camera is supplied for tracking purposes and …

Tags:Asus| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 20