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GDS Promotes Bonding & E Ink

by Bob Raikes

GDS was showing a range of its more unusual products. First we looked at its ‘floor LCDs’. The company told us that it had made a single installation of 800 of the displays in …

Tags:E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Large Display Monitor| Optical Bonding| RDSE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 10

LG Explains its B2B Strategy

by Bob Raikes

Over the last year, LG has been developing its B2B strategy at a European level and the retail group, based in Amsterdam, was running the booth at RDSE. LG has vertical sales and marketing …

Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| QSRs & Menu Boards| RDSE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 10

Pyramid Exploits HPC in Retail

by Bob Raikes

Pyramid Computers is a German specialist in high performance computing (HPC). It has three businesses based on this core competence. One is the high performance computing business itself (and apparently its special HPC systems …

Tags:Aviation| Interactive Tables| Kiosks| Large Display Monitor| QSRs & Menu Boards| RDSE 2016| Retail| Vol 23 - Issue 10

BagTag Wants to Add Tags to Bags…..

by Bob Raikes

BagTag is from the Netherlands and was at the show to introduce its electronic bag tagging system which is built around an E Ink display. The tag is designed to be fixed to individual …

Tags:Aviation| E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Passenger Terminal Expo (PTE) 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 11

… While Rumowa Wants the Tags in the Bags

by Bob Raikes

Rimowa is a high end supplier of baggage that is based in Germany. Like BagTag, it wants tags to be electronic, but wants travellers to buy the firm’s baggage with the displays already fitted. …

Tags:Aviation| E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Passenger Terminal Expo (PTE) 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 11

NEC Highlights Display Surfaces

by Bob Raikes

As expected, we saw all the new hardware from NEC Display Solutions at the recent ISE show, but the company had a good presence at PTE. Given that only they and Data Modul were …

Tags:Aviation| Flight Information (FIDs)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Passenger Terminal Expo (PTE) 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 11

Data Modul Tests Reaction to Transparent OLED

by Bob Raikes

When we met with Data Modul at the recent Embedded World show, we promised to cover the transparent OLED that it showed when we got to PTE as we knew that there would only …

Tags:Data Modul| Flight Information (FIDs)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Passenger Terminal Expo (PTE) 2016| Transparent Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 11

Passenger Terminal Expo Aims to Boost “Opportunity to spend”

by Bob Raikes

The view to the city at the end of PTE 2016. Image:MekoI thought, as I wrote up this report, that the last Passenger Terminal Expo that I had personally attended was about three years …

Tags:Aviation| Flight Information (FIDs)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Passenger Terminal Expo (PTE) 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 11

Halle 6 Technology Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

We went to Hall 6 where the R&D departments were showing what they had, but there was only limited interest for us. Most of the research being show was in the area of big …

Tags:3D Acquisition| AR Glasses| CeBIT 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 10

CeBIT Round Up

by Bob Raikes

Huawei was keen to make an impression and had a big booth highlighting its capabilities in communications. We spotted a demonstration of an ip camera that supports the H.265 codec that was running 1080P …

Tags:CeBIT 2016| Codecs| Convertible PCs| E Ink| Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs)| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Pen Input| Vol 23 - Issue 10| WiGIG

CeBIT Demise Accelerates….

by Bob Raikes

CeBIT (or SnowBIT as it is often called by those that have experienced it) is one of the great institutions of the computing world. I first went (multiple times) in the 1980s and early …

Tags:CeBIT 2016| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 10

Dashbon Boombox Includes a Projector

by Bob Raikes

Dashbon was a new name to us and the company was showing its Flicks boombox. This is a full projection system that is built into a unit that includes a full featured audio system …

Tags:CeBIT 2016| Interactive Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Projectors| Vol 23 - Issue 10