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AR dog goggles could help protect Soldiers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The US army has a research programme to make AR glasses for dogs so that they can get commands while their handlers remain hidden. At the moment, the handlers use hand …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Military & Defence

Vizio OLED

Vizio starts shipping its OLED-H1 OLED TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vizio has started to ship its first OLED TVs in the US and are priced at $1,199 for the 55″ and $1,999 for the 65″. Features include HDMI 2.1, eARC and …

Tags:OLED TVs| USA| Vizio

Avixa Power Hour Now Online

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported comments from Chris Riegel of Stratacache on a recent Avixa Power Hour presentation, MicroLED production soon also in Europe? but now the presentation has been made available on the …

Tags:LED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP

16:9 is Surveying the Direct LED Business

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Dave Haynes of the Sixteen-Nine blog & podcast site is carrying out a survey to create a free to view report on the direct LED market. He is looking for contributors …

Tags:LED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP

Samsung Claims >100% of BT2020 for New Projector

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung recently announced its new UST projector. It has now confirmed that it uses direct lasers and claims to be able to support 106% of the Rec 2020 colour gamut and …

Tags:Laser Projectors| Rec 2020| Samsung| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

I Know I Shouldn’t Laugh

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A Chinese sex toy designed to be a ‘smart male chastity device’ has become vulnerable to a hack that would lock all devices. “The internet-linked sheath has no manual override, so …

Tags:Health and Safety| Smart Home & Home Networks

Lextar ships mini LED BLUs for Xiaomi TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported that Lextar is the supplier of miniLED backlight units for new Xiaomi TVs and gave some technical details on the configuration. The 4K/8K 82″ sets are said to have: …

Tags:LCD Backlights| MiniLED| TVs (TV Sets)| Xiaomi

Dell Adds an HDR Monitor

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Dell has announced new monitors including a new UltraSharp 32 HDR PremierColor Monitor (UP3221Q) which has a miniLED backlight with 2K dimming zones, 99.8% of DCI P3 colour gamut and support …

Tags:Colour Critical Monitors| Dell| Desktop Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| MiniLED| USB