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Wagamama Uses Novel Sign at Gatwick

by Bob Raikes

As we were waiting for our plane out to Las Vegas, we noticed this display from the Wagamama restaurant chain which now has a large sign outside using ‘stretched’ displays. The content is designed …

Tags:Aviation| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| QSRs & Menu Boards| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Dell 8K Monitor Available Soon

by Bob Raikes

Dell had booked the Yardbird restaurant in the Venetian to show its latest monitors and PCs. We met up with the monitor group and we immediately were attracted by a new 31.5″ 8K monitor, …

Tags:Dell| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Xiaomi

Xiaomi Aims for CNY100 billion in 2017

by Bob Raikes

Xiaomi’s CEO has said that the firm’s target this year is CNY100 billion ($14.5 billion) in 2017, a slower rate of growth as it tries to cope with its fast growth. It believes that …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 03| Xiaomi

Smartphone Market to Depend on Component Supply

by Bob Raikes

Sources in Asia are pointing to shortages of key components of displays as well as memory and optical sensors as being potential blocks to the growth of brands below the top rank that are …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Philips 40″ Curved Monitor Ships

by Bob Raikes

Philips has started shipping the new version of its 40″ display, the BDM4037UW that we saw at IFA (Philips Launches First OLED TV with Ambilight). The UltraHD monitor has a wider colour gamut of …

Tags:Curved Displays| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Qualcomm Moves to 10nm with 820/821

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm held the first press event of the 2017 event, just before the ‘official’ opening event by the CTA. Keith Kressin started by saying that Qualcomm started by moving the mobile phone from analogue …

Tags:CES 2017| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Semiconductors| Smartphones| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Intel Focuses on VR at Press Event

by Bob Raikes

Intel held a press event that it said was the most technically complex press event that it had ever staged as it had set up high powered VR systems for all of the press …

Tags:CES 2017| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sports and Stadiums| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Tobii Looking at Gaming, Power and Mobiles

by Bob Raikes

We caught up with Tobii in its meeting room where we found the company in a very positive mood as it has been expanding the range of support that it has received. Whereas last …

Tags:CES 2017| Gaze Recognition| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Tobii| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Panasonic still in CE – If not in US TV

by Bob Raikes

Panasonic held its regular press event and, as it has done at the last several that we have attended, it started with discussions about smart cities. The “Smart cities” topic is a big story …

Tags:Automotive| Cameras| CES 2017| Large Display Monitor| Li-Fi| Mobile Display Monitor| Panasonic| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Vuzix Completes FCC Process

by Bob Raikes

Vuzix said that it had completed filing of the FCC process for its M300 Smart Glasses and expects to start shipping very quickly to customers in North America.The company said that the work over …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 03| Vuzix

CES is Lively

by Bob Raikes

This week we catch up with the general news from the last couple of weeks. We are working on the CES report and you can keep track on the website with our full report. …

Tags:CES 2017| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Shells| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Apple to get into VR? Watch out for Fake News!

by Bob Raikes

Well, it’s been a busy week and we’ve been beavering away on our CES report and we had hoped to get it finished by today, but it looks as though it won’t be done …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02