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Dell showed off a convertible PC, the Inspiron 17 7000, which appears to take cues from Lenovo’s Yoga products. It has a 360° hinge and touchscreen as standard. Available in 13″, 15″ and 17″ sizes, the product will be available in June, starting at $730. It is notable as the world’s first 17″ convertible. The … Read more
Nokia has closed its acquisition of Withings S.A (Nokia Plans to Acquire Withings), establishing a new Digital Health business unit. The new unit will be led by Cédric Hutchings, formerly CEO of Withings.
Over a year ago, the IOC said that it did not plan to support UltraHD broadcasts during this summer’s Olympic Games (IOC Has ‘No Plans’ for UltraHD in Rio), as broadcasters had not shown interest. Now, shortly before the event is due to start, NBC has said that it will make UltraHD content from the … Read more
Several companies worked together at the CommunicAsia 2016 show, to deliver live HDR UltraHD TV over satellite. The demonstration took place on MEASAT’s stand. It used HEVC-encoded content at 50fps, with 10-bit colour, broadcast on the DVB-S2X platform at 25Mbps. Ateme, BBright, Mstar Semiconductor and Newtec all worked on the project.
Tianma had plenty new to show us, even though we have met up with the firm at CES and MWC already this year. Automotive is a strong area for the firm and the first display we looked at was a 12.3″ curved LCD. It also had a 14.1″ LCD for centre console applications with 2560 … Read more
We reported quite a lot of new products from Mitsubishi in our Embedded World report, so we were quite surprised to see how much was new at SID. First, we looked at a 4.3″ IPS display that has 1,000 cd/m² of output. Resolution is 480 x 272. The AA035AE01 is a 3.5″ LCD with 400 … Read more
When we met Canatu at CES, the company expressed frustration at the number of design wins that it has achieved, but that which it cannot publicise for contractual reasons. However, at SID, the company showed us that it has added its 12µ film to an E ink-based smartwatch device from Wove. It uses a Polyera … Read more
The characterization of speckle is an on-going area of development and becoming more critical as laser-based projection systems expand beyond their initial deployments in digital cinema. There were four papers in session 10 on laser speckle, which we summarize below. Junichi Kinoshita of Osaka University explained their way of describing speckle as a combination of … Read more
BOE has gradually been boosting its marketing around the world and had a good array of different panels for a range of applications this year. although CSOT of China, which came to San Jose last year did not take a booth this year) . BOE has been boosting its global presence and now has an … Read more
Sharp was highlighting its technology in IGZO backplanes and its touch integration at the SID. IGZO will be important, Sharp believes, because it meets the needs that are developing in IT and PCs. The trends are to high resolution and faster switching. Technologies such as Nvidia’s G-Sync variable frame rate need better processing. The other … Read more
Digital Projection’s HIGHlite Laser projectors have been selected by Antycip Simulation to be fitted at the heart of JCB’s new Uptime Centre. Situated at JCB’s world headquarters in Rocester (UK), this mission critical control centre is running 12 hours a day from 6am am to 6pm every day, collecting live data worldwide from any JCB … Read more
INNOVENTIONS, Inc. has been awarded US Patent 9,348,435 for its RotoView “tilt-to-scroll” technology for mobile phone displays. The new patent, “Motion-Based View Scrolling System with Proportional and Dynamic Modes,” describes a mode for proportional scrolling that allows precise scrolling within a predefined tilt rotation range. “Our latest patent improves RotoView technology, using the new proportional … Read more
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