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UK School Buys Elementary Mimio Displays

Showing the potential if many schools decided to go digital, Girlington Primary School in the UK recently bought 15 70″ Mimio interactive touchscreens (one for each classroom), three 55″ Mimio displays for break out areas and two 84″ touchscreens for the school hall and dance studio. Elementary Technology was the supplier through the YPO (Yorkshire … Read more

E Ink Profits from ESL Demand

E Ink said that it expects to ship 40 million electronic shelf label (ESL) displays this year, taking its cumulative total from 60 million to 100 million according to E Ink CEO, Frank Ko, quoted in local sources at Touch Taiwan. Major retailers that have adopted the technology include Media Markt and Carrefour. At the … Read more

CableClix Prepares ‘Virtual Private Cable Network’

CableClix of the US has developed a Virtual Private Cable Network or “VPCN” that is designed to allow broadband internet suppliers to offer a service that is similar to that available from cable networks, but using the IP for delivery. The company is working on developing the set top box needed for release and will … Read more

An Efficient Blue OLED is Under Development

A team of researchers at the Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. (Atsughi, Japan), and headed by Satoshi Seo is developing a novel OLED device architecture. The team reports that it enables high quantum efficiency, is long lasting, has a low drive voltage OLEDs and produces a practical brightness level. The researchers call the new device … Read more

When Teachers Give Products Failing Marks

Imagine this Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde scenario occurring in your own pilot project as you implement your company’s brilliant technology solution in an educational setting: After completing a twelve- month pilot project in a dozen schools in this European capital, the final results were in. Kids loved the technology solution and strongly felt it improved their … Read more

NEC Adds Video Wall Displays

NEC Display Solutions, in the US and in Europe, has officially announced the UN551S and UN551VS video wall monitors which were previewed at ISE and Infocomm. The monitors use direct-lit LED panels based on S-IPS technology and with a claimed 0.9mm around each display, so with image-to-image gaps of 1.8mm. The panels support 10 bit … Read more

Japanese Collaborate on Super Hi-Vision 8K

Nikkei has reported that Panasonic and Sony will join up with NHK to develop Super Hi-Vision (8K) technology and TV sets. Sony has committed to launching TVs in 2020 and Panasonic also plans to have sets available in time for the Tokyo Olympics, which will be captured in 8K. Analyst Comment Of course, both Sony … Read more

IFA & IBC Approach

We’re now seeing the news start to ramp up towards IBC and IFA. As you might notice, we promise 48 issues per year, rather than 52, because there are a few weeks in the year when we really get overloaded and we’ve got one of those coming up. We plan an issue next week, 2nd … Read more

Uncorporeal Claims It Can Create 3D VR Scenes from Your Photos

Uncorporeal is to launch “Holographic Photography Technology” which according to the company will allow smartphones users to create 360 VR viewable scenes with 3D parallax from photos. According Uncorporeal, their solution allows for users to take 20-30 photographs with standard cameras that range from prosumer level to the average smartphone and build a sphere-like projection, … Read more