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Barco has opened its new corporate headquarters in Kortrijk, Belgium with a visit from the Belgian King. The Barco One Campus was officially opened by King Philippe at the end of May. The new campus is 48,000m², covering everything from R&D to production. All of Barco’s 1,250 employees in Belgium are now working on the … Read more
With a screen using 7H hardness edge-to-edge cover glass, Hannspree’s HT225HPB monitor is claimed to be well-suited to touch operation. The 21.5″ display can support 10 touch points, using procap technology from sister company Hannstouch. 15° – 70° tilt is possible using the sliding-tilt stand. Alternatively, the monitor can be wall-mounted. An IPS panel provides … Read more
Markus Borchert, of Nokia, has been elected president of Digitaleurope. He replaces Ericsson’s Peter Olson, who has led the organisation for four years. Borchert said, “It’s a privilege to lead an organisation that represents such a wide range of tech companies with a European presence.” Six new members also joined Digitaleurope’s board: Liam Benham from … Read more
Foxxum and THTF Global (Tongfang) have signed an exclusive five-year contract, to put the Foxxum TV store on the Orion TVs. THTF sells the Orion brand in Europe, and will add more brands and territories to the deal ‘soon’.
LG Display’s booth featured the LG Electronics 77″ UltraHD TV, using its panel on the front of the booth, and it was catching everyone’s eye. It has great contrast and pretty good HDR performance, but reports as we went to press suggested that the TVs using the panel would be priced at $38,000, so we … Read more
Several weeks ago, Ken wrote a Display Daily on a start-up called ClearInk (CLEARink Brings New Wrinkle to Electrophoretic Displays). I was travelling at the time and, unusually, I didn’t edit it – the second best way to understand what a company is doing (the best is writing an article!). As a result, the company … Read more
Placing a bet on wearables? Look no further than the smartwatch category, which will dominate the display revenue space going forward, according to the latest IHS data presented at Display Week 2016 business conference. At the Wednesday session on Wearable Display Technology and Market Outlook, IHS manufactuing guru Charles Annis (ok official title: Director, but … Read more
For many years, one of the consistent highlights of SID has been to visit Toshiba’s panel business, which then became TM Displays and, eventually, JDI. As usual, there was lots and lots to see and we simply didn’t have time to get into depth, which is a shame. We started by looking at JDI’s PixelEyes … Read more
At Display Week quantum-dot makers had more significant announcements and introductions than many of us expected. Its not that QDs had become boring before Display Week. After all, television market penetration was 25% heading toward 50%; and the combination of quantum-dot-enhanced backlights, wide color gamut, and high dynamic range had sharply narrowed the visual difference … Read more
One session at the IHS Wearables – Flex conference during Display Week focused on healthcare as a driver in the wearables market, particularly as it affects the display industry. IHS Principle Analyst Shane Walker said “Health is a key driver in the wearables market and wearables will be a key driver in displays.” The session … Read more
3DIcon Corporation, a developer of 3D volumetric display technologies that are designed to produce 360-degree volumetric high-resolution images, has announced that it has entered into an agreement to merge with Coretec Industries LLC, a supplier of commercialized technologies, products, and services solutions for energy-related industries such as oil & gas, renewable energy, distributed energy and … Read more
It seems pretty straight forward that the augmented reality solutions are most beneficial in applications where visual content adds to the task at hand. In this case the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne, Switzerland) has combined an IR camera with augmented reality glasses to allow firefighters to see hot spots inside buildings where smoke … Read more
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