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Skully Shuts Down Over ‘Personal Piggybank’ Allegations

Skully was a crowd-funded company that had planned to produce augmented reality motorcycle helmets. Although its campaign was funded in 2014, ...

Upgrade Boosts Sony Battery to Two Days

Sony’s new Xperia E4 is an entry-level Android smartphone with a two-day battery life. A slight update from the Xperia E3 ...

Korean Hair Salon is First User of SDC’s Mirror OLEDs

A hair salon in Seoul is now using Samsung Display’s 55″ transparent mirror OLED screens: the first commercial installation of the ...

Leader Will Attend Tech Retreat

Leader Europe will be at the HPA Tech Retreat on the 13th-14th July. The company will demonstrate its LV5490 waveform monitor ...

Intel Pays $1.5 Billion for Stake in Chinese Chip Maker

Intel has acquired a 20% stake in China’s Tsinghua Unigroup, a state-owned company that owns China’s second and third largest chip ...

Distec Add Tianma NLT Screens to Portfolio

Distec of Germany will start distributing the Tainma NLT screens in the range of 5.7″ to 19″. The deal is a ...

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Why Touch is No Good for Games

by Tom Allen

Touchscreens have changed the way that we interact with technology, but they aren’t suitable for everything. For scrolling through webpages – no problem. For choosing items from a menu – a bit trickier, but …

Tags:Haptics| Touch Displays| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 34

HTC Establishes VC Fund for VR Investment – Spins off VR

by Tom Allen

Credit: Mobile World LiveHTC has continued its commitment to virtual reality, announced the formation of a venture capital investment fund at Mobile World Congress Shanghai. The news comes just one month after we reported …

Tags:HTC| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 25

Wileyfox Copies Asian Smartphone Strategies

by Tom Allen

Wileyfox is a relatively new UK-based smartphone maker, focusing on the low end of the market. Its launched its first devices, the Swift and Storm, in 2015, and has now returned with the Spark, …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 25

ADL Researchers Examine Auto-Stereo 3D

by Tom Allen

The SID held an event in London at the end of June, investigating different approaches to glass-free 3D displays. This consisted of researchers from Nanyang Technological University’s Advanced Display Laboratory discussing three types of …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Society| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 25

Smart TVs Pass Milestone

by Tom Allen

Early 2016 marked a turning point in the TV industry: more than half of all sets shipped in Q1 were smart TVs. IHS says that the acceleration in adoption was led by China, where …

Tags:Android| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Roku| Smart TV| Tizen| Vol 23 - Issue 25| Worldwide

Scala Extends Google Support

by Tom Allen

Scala has certified AOpen’s Chromebase and Asus’ Chromebit computers, as being suitable to display dynamic digital solutions built on the Scala platform. Both products were tested in areas such as media compatibility; performance under …

Tags:Chromebooks| Digital Signage Software| Google| Large Display Monitor| Scala (now Stratacache)| Vol 23 - Issue 25

Kuwada Takes Cambrios to Asia

by Tom Allen

Cambrios has appointed Ryosuke Kuwada to a newly-created position: executive adviser to the CEO. Kuwada will focus on the firm’s business development efforts in Asia. Kuwada has worked in technology sales and marketing for …

Tags:APAC| Cambrios| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| People| Recruitment & Appointments| Vol 23 - Issue 25

UDC Takes BASF’s OLED Portfolio

by Tom Allen

Universal Display Corp. has acquired the OLED IP assets of BASF SE. These include more than 500 issued and pending patents worldwide, in 86 patent families. The purchase price is approximately €87 million. The …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Patents| UDC| Vol 23 - Issue 25

Reel and Galaxy Bring Barco Escape to the Middle East

by Tom Allen

We heard at CineEurope that Barco had partnered with Reel Cinemas in Dubai. What was not announced at the time was that one of the auditoriums will be using the Barco Escape solution, which …

Tags:Back Panel| Barco| Cinema Projection| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Vol 23 - Issue 25

Eizo Keeps ‘Almost-Square’ Alive

by Tom Allen

Eizo’s S1934 is an ‘almost-square’ 5:4 19″ monitor, for offices and control rooms requiring this more traditional format. Billed as the successor to the S1933, the monitor is in fact almost identical to this …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Eizo| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 25