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ZTE USA, the fourth largest smartphone manufacturer in the U.S. and second largest in the no-contract market,* today announced the grand prize winner of Project CSX is the Eye-Tracking, Self-Adhesive Phone. Thousands of consumers from 176 countries participated in voting throughout the competition, from ideation through conceptualization, and in addition to the winner joining ZTE … Read more
IBM announced that TPV Technology Ltd., the manufacturer of Philips-branded televisions, has adopted IBM Cloud and IoT services to more quickly and easily build new smart features and apps, such as video-on-demand and instant playback, directly into its TVs. Consumer electronics manufacturers must keep pace with ever-changing consumer demands, while coping with slim margins. The … Read more
Samsung has had a sense of humour failure as well as a battery problem. The company has got some bad press over attempts to stop youTube videos that featured versions of Grand Theft Auto V in which Samsung phones were used in place of ‘sticky bombs’. Samsung apparently made a copyright complaint to YouTube. The … Read more
This week, we introduced a new front end for our website that is intended to make our content easier to read online. The displaydaily.com website has all of our content since mid-2014 when Meko took over the site and it’s developing into a good resource as you can use the site search to check for … Read more
Virgin America decided to try to recreate the “experience of first class flight” with a pair of trainers including a miniature screen for ‘in shoe entertainment”. Only one pair of the trainers (size 42/8) were made in white leather (to match Virgin’s seating) and including a seat belt buckle and LED ‘mood lighting’.
Groups from the Universities of Sussex and Bristol have developed a display that uses ultrasound acoustics to suspend physical pixels in mid-air while using electrostatic force to rotate the pixel to show different colours. Dr Deepak Sahoo, Research Associate in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Sussex, said: “The most exciting part of our project … Read more
Acer has added the XB241YU to its Predator XB1 range of gaming monitors. The 23.8″ 2560 x 1440 unit has 350 cd/m² of brightness and has a claimed response time of 1ms from a TN panel with a “standard” refresh rate of 144Hz and an ‘overclock’ rate of 180Hz. The monitor supports G-Sync and ULMB … Read more
Christophe Defrance has been promoted to Managing Director of Ingram Micro. He succeeds Sophie Deleval who has returned to France. Defrance was previously the sales director. He has many years of experience in ICT companies and before Ingram he was building the channel for Dell. /images/Logos/G-I/Ingram_Micro.png
The FandangoNow OTT video service in the US is now available on Android TV and with a catalogue of 40,000 shows. The service was originally launched as M-Go and is now owned by NBCUniversal who also recently bought the “Rotten Tomatoes” review site. Availability on Android TV will mean compatibility with SmartTVs from LeEco, Sharp, … Read more
We reported earlier this year on a contract won by Eizo at Festo AG’s automation centre. Now, we’ve heard from Sharp that Festo has also chosen 60″, 70″ and 80″ ‘Big Pads’ from Sharp for the meeting rooms at the site. Tobias Reiter, Inf. Management IT Contracts at Festo, explained: “Sharp’s LCD monitors combine innovative … Read more
Bullit Group which licenses the Kodak brand has announced the Ektra smartphone (named after a historic Kodak camera) which is optimised for around for photography. It has a 21 megapixel main camera uses a Sony Exmor RS sensor with fast PDAF focus and an aperture of f2.0, while the front camera supports 13 megapixels at … Read more
Digitimes Research forecast that large flat panel shipments will be broadly flat over the next five years, with a CAGR of 0.3%, growing from 673.37 million to 684.60 million in 2021. LCD TVs are forecast to grow by 0.4% per year, but there will be a drop by 1.1% for notebooks and 2.5% for LCD … Read more
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