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CLEARink Displays and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, Sign Development Agreement

CLEARink Displays today announced that they signed a comprehensive Materials Development Agreement with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, focused on bringing CLEARink’s innovative, patented, reflective display technology to market by the end of 2017. Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, is a world leader in materials and formulations for the LCD and OLED industries, but has also been … Read more

ClearInk and Merck Sign Development Agreement

A materials development agreement has been signed by ClearInk Displays and Merck KGaA which aims to bring ClearInk’s reflective display technology to market by the end of this year. Merck’s electro-optical inks support ClearInk’s total internal reflection architecture. The companies claim that displays using this technology will have outdoor readability in full colour, using low … Read more

Eonite Claims Tracking Solution for AR/VR

Eonite has said that it has developed the “world’s most accurate, lowest latency, lowest power consuming software to democratize inside-out positional tracking for VR and AR.” The company has claimed that it has a high degree of accuracy and latency of ‘less than 15 millseconds’ The software is claimed to run on a ‘tablet-class’ GPU … Read more

HP ZBook 15u is a Mobile Workstation

HP has launched the ZBook15U, a mobile clamshell workstation that now uses the 7th Gen (Kaby Lake) Intel Core i5 and i7 processors alongside AMD FirePro professional graphics “W4190M” with up to 32GB of DDR4 RAM and up to 2TB of storage. The display is a 15.6″ UltraHD (no touch) or FullHD (touch/no touch using … Read more

Philips Announces New Augmented-reality Surgical Navigation Technology Designed for Image-guided Spine, Cranial and Trauma Surgery

Royal Philips, a leader in integrated image-guided therapy solutions, today announced the development of an industry-first augmented-reality surgical navigation technology that is designed to help surgeons perform image-guided open and minimally-invasive spine surgery. Philips is a pioneer in hybrid operating room (hybrid OR) solutions to facilitate both surgical and minimally-invasive endovascular procedures, with over 750 … Read more

Philips Uses VR for Spinal Surgery

Philips is developing a new augmented-reality surgical navigation technology that may allow spinal surgery using image-guided open and minimally-invasive techniques. The system exploits Philips’ low-dose X-ray systems for imaging. The results of the first pre-clinical study on the technology have been published in the SPINE journal, as a result of a collaboration between Philips, Karolinska … Read more

Apple Rumoured to be Working on Original Video Content

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Normally, we wouldn’t bother with a rumour about Apple – there are so many, but in this case, the source is the Wall St Journal. The paper said that Apple is planning to create its own content (TV series, but possibly movies) that it can make available through the Apple Music service. It already has … Read more

Nintendo Switch will launch on March 3 for $300 / €300

Nintendo has released details of the new Switch console, which will be released in early March (the 3rd) for $300 / €300 and will be ‘region-free’. The console will ship first in Japan followed by Hong Kong, then the US and Europe. The console is a hybrid console that can be used as a portable … Read more