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Brioche Dorée Renews IT With 500 Aures Terminals

French fast food chain Brioche Dorée has chosen to use point of sale terminals from Aures in a renewal of its IT equipment. By mid-November, more than 500 new 10″ terminals will have been installed in 300 locations across the country. The hardware had to meet Brioche Dorée’s requirements for speed, reliability and user-friendliness. Each … Read more

Qualcomm Shares Next Step in Snapdragon 800 Family

Qualcomm has announced the successor to its Snapdragon 820 chip called the Snapdragon 821. Like its predecessor, the 821 is intended for use on mobile devices. It is intended to deliver faster speed, higher efficiency and greater application performance. According to Qualcomm, the 821’s Kryo quad-core CPU enables 10% higher performance than the 820, reaching … Read more

Why Displays Won’t be Really Flexible and Why it Doesn’t Matter

Flexible displays are one of the darlings when we think of future display technologies. Remember those high gloss images of devices with roll-up displays that will allows us to roll out a 12” screen from a pen? While we are still not there (even though I have seen pretty good prototypes already), this is actually … Read more

Panasonic’s Virtual Museum Opens its Doors

The museum has four distinct zones, each highlighting how audiovisual technology can be integrated to create engaging, modern exhibits. Panasonic product experts guide visitors through the museum and provide an insight into how Panasonic products and solutions can enhance the museum environment, creating an engaging visitor journey and, importantly, helping generate additional revenue. They will … Read more

USB Type-C Locking Connector Standard Approved by USB-IF

Through years, there has been a constant growth of industrial applications adopting USB interface for interconnection. However, the non-locking USB connector mating mechanism is often found less secure in the industrial environments. For the purpose of providing secure connection solutions, Newnex has been actively participating in the development of locking connector standards and was one … Read more

Spectacular Curved Video Wall Transforms Reading Town Centre

BrightSign, LLC®, the global market leader in digital signage media players and Project Audio Visual today announced that BrightSign players are driving a massive outdoor curved video wall that forms the frontage of a redeveloped Reading shopping centre. Atlantis Group, new owners of King’s Walk Shopping Centre in Reading sought to address the challenge posed … Read more

New 2×2 Universal Video Wall Mounting Kit

AV technology pioneer Peerless-AV® today announced a new Universal Mounting Kit for 46-55″ displays in high impact public areas. The low profile, dual-frame design and built-in horizontal adjustment of the DS-VW655-2×2 Video Wall Mounting Kit enables installers to create a 2×2 a video wall quickly, simply and cost-effectively. “The 2×2 video wall kit is the … Read more

Panasonic Builds Museum in the Cloud

You are now able to view the history of Panasonic’s technology without leaving your desk. The company has built a virtual museum (http://tinyurl.com/znvc4cf), where ‘visitors’ can view four different zones (‘Experiential projection’, ‘Informative display’, ‘4k technology’ and ‘Control room’). Panasonic product experts act as guides and will be available live to answer questions.

Panasonic Rolls Out Professional Screens

Panasonic’s EF1 displays, which were previewed at ISE 2016 (Panasonic Shows Off All B2B Displays), have been released a month earlier than originally announced. The screens, in 32″, 75″ and 84″ sizes, have IPS panels, 1920 x 1080 resolution and USB media players. HDMI (x2), DVI-D, component, USB, RJ45, RS232 and IR terminals are featured. … Read more

Airbus Develops ‘Promising’ AR Tool

The SART (Smart Augmented Reality Tool, aka MiRA) solution, developed by Airbus, and shown at Laval Virtual, has been listed as one of CIO Review’s ’20 Most Promising Augmented Reality Technologies’. The system imposes an ‘As Designed’ view over the ‘As Built’ reality for testing and inspections. It is able to run on tablets, projectors … Read more