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Samsung Joins the Mile High Club

by Tom Allen

Forget seatback screens; Samsung and Australian airline Qantas have launched a trial entertainment service using the former’s Gear VR headset. The headsets will be provided to customers in Sydney and Melbourne International First Lounges, as …

Barco Takes Collaboration to San Diego

by Tom Allen

Barco is showing its videowall products, collaboration software and controllers at Distributech 2015 (stand #1,539). The show takes place in the San Diego Convention Centre from 3rd – 5th February.

Daktronics Prepared For Super Bowl

by Tom Allen

Daktronics installed a massive new digital billboard in the University of Phoenix Stadium, ahead of the recent Super Bowl. The billboard, with a 13mm pixel pitch, measured 17.7m x 50m (a total of 2,900m²!) …

Iiyama Installs Procap on Public Monitors

by Tom Allen

Iiyama has produced four new open frame monitors in the Prolite series, with edge-to-edge glass and procap touch. The new screens (32″ TF3237MSC-B1AG; 42″ TF4237MSC-B1AG; 46″ TF4637MSC-B1AG; and 55″ TF5537MSC-B1AG) feature AMVA or IPS panels …

Comp Mall Ruggedises Display for Outdoor Use

by Tom Allen

Comp Mall of Germany has produced a new 19″ panel PC called the WTP-9A66. It is a fanless, sealed unit that is IP66-compliant and enclosed in a stainless steel housing. Intended for applications as a …

XL Video UK Makes Projector Investment

by Tom Allen

XL Video UK has invested £1.2 million ($1.8 million) in 30 new Barco HDX-W14 projectors, including a quantity of Barco’s TLD+ UST lenses. XL Video also spent £250,000 ($377,500) on a range of new DVI matrices …

Samsung Takes Inspiration From Alcatel

by Tom Allen

Polish blog Android.com/pl claims that owners of Samsung’s Galaxy S6 will be able to use accessories to enhance the phone’s functionality. Similar to Alcatel’s Hero line, the site claims that the S6 will have …

Tags:EPD (Electrophoretic)| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Battery Raises Capacity, Withstands 1 Million Folds

by Tom Allen

Rolled, crumpled or neatly folded into an origami swan, the battery will operate.Jenax of South Korea has developed a new flexible battery, which is as thin as paper. The J.Flex can be folded, twisted …

Tags:Batteries| Flexible Batteries| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Feeling Rich? Invest in a Gold-Plated Phone

by Tom Allen

Do friends laugh at your plebeian smartphone? Does it just not fit your power-buying, power-dressing lifestyle? How about getting it gold plated? London-based Goldgenie is a start-up that offers what could be called ‘affordable’ plating. The Blackberry …

Tags:Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Huawei Backs Away From Android at MWC

by Tom Allen

Huawei has said that it will introduce new wearables and tablets at MWC in March. The company’s focus will be on premium devices. Although specifics were not announced, Huawei did say that it would …

Sharp Cuts LCD TV Estimate

by Tom Allen

Local sources say that Sharp estimates that LCD TV shipments will reach 6 million units in the fiscal 2014/15 year, which ends in March. The company had been targeting 8.2 million units.

UltraHD Sport Broadcast Live in Japan

by Tom Allen

Japan’s Wowow satellite TV station has successfully broadcast two UltraHD programmes: a tennis match in Tokyo and a boxing match in Yokohama. The events were broadcast live from the company’s studio for Belle Salle Akihabara …