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ESI Designs Beacon in Pittsburgh

by Bob Raikes

ESI Design created a special display based on 1584 polycarbonate LCD panels with a low resolution grid of LEDs behind the panels to represent all 32 levels of The Tower at PNC Plaza in …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Novel Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Affinity Photo Now on Windows

by Bob Raikes

Serif of the UK has made Affinity Photo available on Windows as well as updating the Mac version. The software, which costs $50 to purchase, was chosen as Apple’s ‘App of the Year’ 2015, …

Tags:Graphics Software| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 48

Blippar Now Recognises 70,000 Public Faces

by Bob Raikes

The Blippar augmented reality app has been updated to allow the recognition of faces as well as objects. The company has created a database of 70,000 ‘public figures’ and users will be able to …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| face recognition| | Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 48

Fitbit/Pebble Deal is Confirmed

by Bob Raikes

Pebble has confirmed that it is selling its software, its main asset, to Fitbit and that 40% of its staff, involved with software, have been offered jobs by Fitbit. The price is reported at …

Tags:Fitbit| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 48| Wearables

Nanolumens Awarded Patents On Flexible Led Display Technology

by Bob Raikes

NanoLumens, the industry-leading designer of indoor and outdoor LED visualization solutions in any size, shape, or curvature, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has, to date, issued more than 18 …

Tags:Patents| USA

Lightvert Has Large Displays… or not…

by Bob Raikes

Lightvert in the UK – a start-up founded by Daniel Siden and a spin out from Haberdashery – has developed a patent pending technology it calls Echo that uses a single line of light, …

Tags:Advertising| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Laser| Mobile Display Monitor| Novel Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 48

Shelfbucks has Patents on In-store Tracking

by Bob Raikes

Shelfbucks Inc said that it has acquired 24 patents in the US, covering technologies used to measure execution, compliance and performance of in-store merchandising displays. The patents also cover technology for monitoring in-store advertising …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Retail| Vol 23 - Issue 48

Nanolumens has 18 Patents and Plans to Defend Them

by Bob Raikes

Nanolumens has said in a press release that it has been awarded US Patents number 8,963,895, 9,013,367, 9,058,755, 9,159,707, 9,326,620, and others for its LED displays, which it can make in curved or flat …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Patents| Vol 23 - Issue 49

EV Group & NNFC Develop New A/R Coating

by Bob Raikes

EV Group (EVG) of St. Florian, Austria and a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment, together with the Korea National NanoFab Center (President Jae Young Lee, NNFC), a nano-technology R&D infrastructure for academia, …

Tags:Anti Glare| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Production Equipment| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Khronos to Standardise VR APIs

by Bob Raikes

The Khronos Group (a not for profit consortium based in Beaverton, Oregon) which has done a lot to standardise APIS in the 3D world, has now introduced an initiative to standardise interfaces for VR. …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 48

Samsung May Try Folding Phones Before Flexible

by Bob Raikes

ETTimes of Korea has reported that Samsung is preparing two different approaches to the development of foldable smartphones, one with dual separate displays and another that uses a single flexible OLED. The separate display …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 48