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Advantech Protects its Tablet

In June this year, Advantech announced a rugged tablet PC called the PWS-870. The unit has now been launched. It is ...

Panasonic Emphasises Laser Cost-Savings

Where is 4k demand coming from in the rental market, asked Panasonic’s Hartmut Kulessa? From new applications and opportunities, he answered. ...

Chinese Smartphone Shipments Down in Q2

Smartphone shipments to China were 94.1 million in Q2’17, down 11.8% YoY although similar to Q1, according to Digitimes Research. Chinese ...

PeLEDs Have OLED-Beating Efficiency

Researchers at Korea’s Pohang University claim to have developed a perovskite LED (PeLED) with a luminous efficiency that can compete with ...

Freesat Approaches 2 Million Mark

The UK’s free satellite TV service, Freesat, was available to 1.9 million households at the end of September. 8,000 new subscribers ...

BT Works on NBA’s First UltraHD Game

The NBA, with BT Sport and Rogers Communications, ran its first public UltraHD broadcast during a game in London’s O2 Area ...

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Nintendo Abandons European TV Plans

by Tom Allen

Nintendo has changed its plans for the Tvii platform (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 38). Available in the USA and Japan since 2012, the service is no longer destined for a European launch, ‘Due …

Tags:Consoles| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Nintendo| Nintendo Consoles| TV Viewing| Vol 22 - Issue 08

IOC Has ‘No Plans’ for UltraHD in Rio

by Tom Allen

The Internal Olympics Committee has said that it has ‘no plans” for UltraHD TV broadcasts during the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. Yiannis Exarchos, CEO of Olympic Broadcast Services, said, “There is no …

Tags:4k| Brazil| Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| Olympics| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Organic Electronics Made Possible by Advanced Printing Techniques

by Helen Vince

Printing techniques such as gravure, inkjet, flexography and lithograph have enabled the development of various cost-efficient electronic equipment and multi-material parts. While novel-printing techniques have been employed primarily to produce consumer electronics such as …

Tags:InkJet Deposition| OLEDs

Eizo Returns to WATM

by Tom Allen

Eizo is to show its full range of air traffic control solutions at World ATM Congress 2015 (WATMC 2015) in Madrid, Spain (stand 349) from the 10th to 12th March. These include 2k x …

Tags:Air Traffic Control (ATC)| Back Panel| Eizo| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Dell Readies 2015 Education Lineup

by Tom Allen

Dell’s new additions to its education portfolio include a laptop, tablets and a Chromebook. All four products (Chromebook 11; Venue 10 and 10 Pro tablets; and Latitude 11 Education Series laptop) are ‘playground-proof’, with …

Tags:Android| Chromebooks| Dell| Education| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 08| Windows

Toshiba Has LCD/OLED Module for Ara

by Tom Allen

Toshiba has shown off several modules for Google’s (originally Motorola’s) Project Ara modular smartphone (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 48). They include a display module for LCD and OLED screens, and connectivity, Wi-Fi and …

Tags:Google| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Smartphones| toshiba| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Asus Looks Away From Android

by Tom Allen

Asus CEO Jerry Shen has said that the company is developing a smartwatch that does not use Android Wear. Quoted by Focus Taiwan, Shen said, “The major concern is about saving power”.

Tags:Android Wear| Asus| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Ocean Installs Massive Media Wall in Manchester

by Tom Allen

Ocean Outdoor has launched its third large-format outdoor media wall in the UK. The Manchester Media Wall measures 24.6m x 5.76m, with a 94m² vinyl surround. It has a 12mm pixel pitch and is …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Ocean Outdoor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Elo Provides Touch Choice at PoS

by Tom Allen

Elo has developed new point-of-sale touch PCs for retail use. The E-Series (15E2) and X-Series (X-15 and X-17) both feature Elo’s SAW or resistive touch technology, with the X-Series also having a procap option. …

Tags:ELO| Large Display Monitor| Touch| Vol 22 - Issue 09

Acer Chooses Freesync

by Tom Allen

The XG270HU is Acer’s tear-free gaming monitor, set to be released in March. The 27″ unit utilises AMD’s Freesync technology to synchronise the screen’s refresh rate with that of the GPU, eliminating tearing and …

Tags:Acer| Blue Light| Desktop Monitors| DisplayPort| DVI| HDMI| Large Display Monitor| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| Vol 22 - Issue 08