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FlexEnable to Enhance the Global Graphene Value Chain

by Tom Allen

FlexEnable, the leader in the development and industrialisation of flexible electronics, has announced its participation in the Graphene Flagship, the EU’s biggest ever initiative in the field of graphene and related materials. FlexEnable has …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Graphene

Flexenable Joins European Graphene Research

by Tom Allen

FlexEnable, a spin-off from Plastic Logic (Plastic Logic Divides into Two Companies), is now participating in the Graphene Flagship initiative (http://tinyurl.com/oo5gj7f). The Graphene Flagship is a research programme with a €1 billion budget, aiming …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Graphene| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Plastic Logic| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 16

Dell’s Vostro Notebooks Enhance Productivity

by Tom Allen

Dell’s Vostro notebook line, for mobile and home workers, now has new 14″ and 15″ models with multiple features designed for productivity. The Vostro 14 3000 and 15 3000 are less than 25mm thick, …

Tags:Dell| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 22 - Issue 16

Arri Revises Cameras and Monitors With Partnerships

by Tom Allen

Arri is developing a camera with Imax, it announced at the show. The new camera will be based on the popular 6k Alexa 65 camera, which will be used to film the third instalment …

Tags:Arri| Cameras| Field Monitors| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2015| OLEDs| Vol 22 - Issue 17

US Smartphone Shares Flat From 2014

by Tom Allen

In the three months ending in February 2015, smartphones had penetrated almost 77% of the US market, according to Comscore – up 5% on the September – November 2014 period. The result represented 186.3 …

Tags:Android| Apple| BlackBerry| HTC| iOS (Apple)| LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Motorola| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Smartphones| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 16| Windows

European Commission Examines EU VoD Market

by Tom Allen

A report on video-on-demand has been published by the European Commission. ‘The development of the European market for on-demand audiovisual services’ was prepared by the European Audiovisual Observatory. It presents statistics for European VoD …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| VOD| Vol 22 - Issue 16

Spectral Edge’s HDMI Adapter Compensates for Colour Blindness

by Tom Allen

A UK company called Spectral Edge has announced an HDMI adapter for colour blind TV viewers, called the Eye2TV. The device is meant to make it easier to distinguish between red and green, as …

Tags:Colour Management & Processing| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| HDMI| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 16

Tobii Glasses 2 – Faster, Stronger, Better

by Tom Allen

Tobii has added two improvements to its Pro Glasses 2 wearable (Tobii Brings Eye-Tracking to Glasses): 50Hz sampling and MEMS components. Tobii has combined the headset’s slippage compensation technology with a 50Hz sampling rate …

Tags:AR Glasses| MEMS| Mobile Display Monitor| Tobii| Vol 22 - Issue 16| Wearables

New Tizen Phones Under Development at Samsung

by Tom Allen

ZDnet Korea reports that Samsung is developing two new Tizen smartphones. The Z2, for developing markets such as India, is said to have 960 x 540 resolution (screen size was not listed, but will …

Tags:AMOLED| China| France| India| Korea| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Tizen| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 16

MEMS Scanning Key to ‘Deep’ Glasses-Free 3D

by Tom Allen

A new autostereoscopic (glasses-free) 3D display system is being developed at Beijing’s Tsinghua University, aiming to overcome the drawbacks of existing AS3D displays. Glasses-free 3D today, using lenticular lenses, optical gratings or micro-lens arrays, …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| 3D Formats| Autostereo 3D| Large Display Monitor| MEMS| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 16