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Wearables Battle the Hype Cycle at WTS 2016

This was our first year attending the Wearable Technology Show in London’s ExCel Centre, which has been running since 2014. Already, the event is beginning to branch out to cover more areas, such as the IoT. Gartner’s well-known technology Hype Cycle lists five stages of a product’s development: Technology Trigger; Peak of Inflated Expectations; Trough … Read more

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 11

A company called Arovia showed a fold-out screen at South by Southwest last week. No, not a foldable OLED: a rear-projection display and projector. The Spontaneous Pop-Up Display (SPUD) is about the size of an Apple TV box when folded. Unfolding it turns it into a 24″ display, which can receive content through HDMI or … Read more

RNIB Rewards Samsung for Accessible TVs

The UK’s Royal National Institute of Blind People has presented Samsung Electronics with an Inclusive Society Award; this recognises the firm’s work in making its smart TVs accessible for blind and partially-sighted people. The RNIB worked with Samsung on the development of its smart TVs, which have text-to-speech and zoom functionality, as well as a … Read more

Value Electronics Looks for King of UHD

LG’s OLED TV won the shootout in 2015Value Electronics in the USA will host its annual TV shootout event at CE Week in New York City. The shootout (now in its 13th year) will take place on the 22nd and 23rd June, and aims to crown the ‘King of UHD TV’. Although the list is … Read more

Speedo Launches Team Speedo With Holo-Gauze AR

Holotronica, creator of a holography/projection screen technology called Holo-Gauze, created a 20m x 9m augmented reality installation for the launch of Team Speedo in New York. A film charting the success of 24 Team Speedo athletes was shown on the Holo-Gauze screen, with the athletes were hidden behind the screen. Each athlete was revealed at … Read more

Christie Brings HS to Frankfurt

Christie has revealed the products that it will showcase at Prolight+Sound 2016 (5th – 8th April, Frankfurt). The company’s new HS Series; Boxer models (including the 2K20, 2K25 and 2K30); Velvet LED tiles; and Pandora’s Box v5.9 software will be demonstrated. ID Tag Tracking, a way to auto-follow people on-stage or create trackable stage props … Read more

Consumer VR Interest High, Awareness Low

Despite extensive media coverage, as many as two-thirds of US consumers are unaware of virtual reality as a technology, according to Horizon Media. Although awareness is low, more than a third (36%) of the 3,000 consumers surveyed by Horizon said that they were interested in owning a VR device. Excitement was higher than it was … Read more

B&O Agrees OLED TV Partnership

LG Display and Bang & Olugfsen have entered into a strategic partnership to develop and produce an OLED TV, which will be launched in 2017. Through the agreement, B&O will achieve the technological capabilities and scale needed to improve its long-term profitability. The company will focus on its core competencies of acoustics and design, while … Read more