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UK Wearable Ownership ‘No Longer Niche’

by Tom Allen

Apple led the UK smartwatch market in Clicked’s dataA study from UK-based Clicked Research has found that wearable ownership in the country has doubled over the last 12 months, with 12% of the UK’s …

Sports Illustrated Goes Virtual

by Tom Allen

Quad/Graphics has included a VR viewer (the Quad Virtual Reality Viewer, or QVR) in about 500,000 select copies of the 2016 Sportswear Illustrated swimsuit issue. The viewer can be used to watch the magazine’s …

‘Flip’ Through Pages With Active Haptic Feedback

by Tom Allen

Researcher’s from Queen’s University (Canada) have developed a prototype flexible OLED display using ‘active haptic feedback’ – that is, flexing – for control. The 6″ display is a full-colour unit (1280 x 720) from …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Haptics| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 06

Samsung Changes TVs in Europe

by Tom Allen

At its European Forum (Samsung Highlights CES Products in Monaco), Samsung showed off its newest LCD TVs, including the SUHD sets. These had some minor differences to the models shown at CES last month …

Rugged Display Repels Heat, Cold, Hail and Snow

by Tom Allen

Germany’s SR System-Elektronik has developed and tested a 47″ outdoor display. Designed to shrug off both heat and cold, the screen’s enclosure is IP65-compliant and features a UV filter. Ventilation was developed in-house.

Tags:DOOH| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Rugged Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 06

Apple Refuses to Compromise Security

by Tom Allen

Apple has refused a request by the FBI, made following the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino in December, to modify iOS and published an open letter explaining its reasoning. The company writes that it …

Vestel Closes Video Wall Gap

by Tom Allen

Vestel had a new line of video wall displays called the VDW Series. These can be operated in portrait or landscape and are available in 47″ and 55″ sizes – both with 1920 x …

Infinitus is Positive About Europe

by Tom Allen

Infinitus is a DOOH firm from Slovenia, whom we have covered several times before; the company produces the popular iMotion Flow LFD range, and was demonstrating interesting products at ISE. Record sales were achieved …

Tech Source Becomes Eizo Rugged Solutions

by Tom Allen

Eizo group company Tech Source, a US-based unit specialising in ruggedised graphics and video products, is changing its name. From the 1st April, the firm will be known as Eizo Rugged Solutions Inc. Eizo …

Tags:Eizo| Large Display Monitor| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Vol 23 - Issue 06

Flexible AMOLED Production is Rising

by Tom Allen

Display makers are expanding flexible AMOLED production capacity, to deal with rising demand – largely spurred by the growing popularity of Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge and the Apple Watch. IHS says that such displays …

ISE Sets New Record – and Beats It!

by Tom Allen

ISE 2016 ran from the 9th – 12th February in Amsterdam’s RAI exhibition centre: the first four-day show in in the event’s history. Although we heard differing reasons for the change (too much to …

Tags:ISE 2016| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 06

Mitsubishi’s ‘Aerial Display’ Projects Large Images in Mid-air

by Tom Allen

At its annual R&D Open House event in Japan, Mitsubishi presented an ‘aerial display’ that is able to project images measuring up to 56″ diagonally in mid-air. Mitsubishi describes the two key components of …