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DisplayLink’s USB docking stations and adapters now work with Google’s Chrome OS (Release 51 and onwards). No driver is required. This means that an external DisplayLink-compatible display or adaptor/docking station with single or multple displays can be used directly with a Chromebook (if it has the right version). The firm said that Dell and HP … Read more
Orbotech has received new optical system orders for two OLED fabs in two different countries, it announced during a quarterly finance results call. The company has also delivered a system to a third fab in a different country. Orbotech says that this is a sign of OLED’s increasing penetration. Analyst Comment OLED-Info speculates that the … Read more
DisplayLite will show a new 55″ UltraHD procap touch table at the NEC Showcase 2016 (18th – 19th May, London). It will be based on an NEC display. Touch screen specialist Distec can now equip its procap touch products with its VacuBond optical bonding process. This bonds a layer of protective front glass to the … Read more
Nokia has already begun downsizing in Germany (Job Cuts Rumoured at Nokia). 1,400 jobs are planned to be eliminated by 2018, according to CRN, and 1,022 employees will be let go this year. Most losses will be felt in Munich (354 jobs), with others in Berlin, Bonn/Dusseldorf, Nuremburg, Stuttgart and Ulm.
Portuguese broadcaster RTP has announced that it will launch an UltraHD channel this year, in preparation for the Euro 2016 football tournament. Eight matches will be shown live, including the opening and closing games (20th June and 10th July).
IHS held an analyst’s briefing meeting at the end of the recent TV Connect event in London and we went along to see what the company had to say. It was a short event, with ‘high bandwidth’ – which left more time for networking. After a very brief ‘hello’ from Ben Keen, Piers Harding-Rolls looked … Read more
DuPont Teijin Films makes the organic films behind the flexible displays from, for instance, FlexEnable. Currently these require conventional (rigid) transistors, as DuPont’s are not ‘smart’ enough to do more than a very basic phase change: for instance, turning a black pixel white in electronic paper. Work is being done on this. FlexEnable was showing … Read more
Marek Ramsi is with LG Display’s lighting division, and discussed OLEDs for lighting. He began by showing a video from LG’s stand at the recent Light & Building conference in Frankfurt, where the firm showed off the world’s largest flexible OLED lighting panel: 320mm². The current theoretical maximum size for OLED lighting panels is 370 … Read more
ZTE Mobile Devices, a leading global mobile device maker, today announced that following its success in European countries and the United States, its traveling roadshow for consumers to experience ZTE devices is expanding to Spain. The Europe tour kicked off in Barcelona during Mobile World Congress on February 21st, and passed through Germany, Poland, Italy … Read more
In a partnership that could change the lives of millions of people, NuEyes, a pioneer in the field of low-vision technology, and Osterhout Design Group (ODG), maker of the world’s most advanced Augmented Reality (AR) smartglasses, today announced the availability of portable head-worn devices that can re-open the wearer’s eyes to a world they believed … Read more
Sony’s 3LCD laser projectors were chosen by the University of Bath for installation in lecture halls, and Sony has published a video case study of the work (http://tinyurl.com/hycl99o). An efficient and low-maintenance solution, which would also appeal to students, was key. The University chose six VPL-FHZ55 and four VPL-FHZ700L projectors, and says that feedback has … Read more
SensoMotoric Instruments has launched a developer kit for the Samsung Gear VR, with its eye tracking technology integrated. ‘Unobtrusive’ eye tracking cameras have been added to the device, and the phone (used as the display) has SMI’s tracking software pre-installed. We saw a prototype of the device at MWC this year (Plenty to See at … Read more
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