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While Kent Displays (Kent, Ohio) – a struggling developer of cholesteric liquid-crystal technology – was converting itself into a successful consumer-products company whose devices are sold under the name Boogie Board, it fell off the radar screens of many people in the display community. Let’s try to rectify that. Three of Kent’s Boogie Board eWriter … Read more
NanoTech Entertainment announced today that UltraFlix, home of more than 1,000 hours of Hollywood movies, top sports and nature documentaries, award-winning TV series and concerts, is now available on Hisense and Sharp Smart TVs. Hisense, the top TV brand in China, is now making a strong push for cost effective sets in the Americas at … Read more
Here is our second round-up from Mobile World 2016. We cover SK Telecom, Qualcomm, Intel, Nokia, Harman, Ericsson/Volvo, Acer, Fujitsu, Sunpartner, HP, Garmin, Epson, Vuzix, Imagination, Mediatek, Neonode and DisplayLink. For more details on any of these stories, subscribe to our newsletters at displaydaily.com
We show some highlights from MWC – with Samsung, LG, Sony, Lenovo and Dell. More in our part 2 video. For details on these stories, subscribe to our newsletter at displaydaily.com
At Digital Signage Expo 2016, Sharp quietly introduced a Mini OPS solution that it has developed in collaboration with Intel. The Open Pluggable Specification (OPS) was originally introduced by Intel in 2010 (Display Monitor Vol 17 No 39), as a way to standardise the fragmented digital signage market. Mini OPS builds on the original specifications … Read more
3M Touch Systems had no new developments since ISE but was demonstrating the table with special object tracking application that was also being shown by its customer, Pyramid Electronics. The technology comes from Interactive Scape of Berlin. 3M was showing, along with Pyramid (Polytouch), this object which is recognised by the procap system. Image:Meko Anders … Read more
SES Imagotag was formed when Store Electronic Systems acquired Austrian electronic shelf label (ESL) maker, Imagotag. We nearly missed the company at the show, but we were glad we found them as they had plenty to show us. The company claims to be a global leader and told us it has 10K stores equipped with … Read more
Pioneer Group of the UK (not the Japanese brand) was showing its recently-introduced discrete LED displays which are currently available for indoor applications in pitches from 1.9mm to 6mm. The company is working on “sub 1mm” pitch products and also has a ‘full range’ of outdoor LEDs. The display is very slim and is made … Read more
Optoma was the only company promoting projection products at the event. Although other projector companies were at the show (e.g. Epson), they were focusing on POS or other products. Optoma was highlighting applications that only projection could address. It was working with a company called DisplayMapper that has a camera-based mapping technology that allows relatively … Read more
GDS was showing a range of its more unusual products. First we looked at its ‘floor LCDs’. The company told us that it had made a single installation of 800 of the displays in a project in Khazakstan (check spelling). GDS was keen to highlight its bonding facilities and had a 98″ panel with bonded … Read more
Over the last year, LG has been developing its B2B strategy at a European level and the retail group, based in Amsterdam, was running the booth at RDSE. LG has vertical sales and marketing groups sitting across the different product categories to help it to maximise its opportunities. These are in retail, finance and banking, … Read more
Pyramid Computers is a German specialist in high performance computing (HPC). It has three businesses based on this core competence. One is the high performance computing business itself (and apparently its special HPC systems were used in part of the calculations recently that showed the existence of gravitational waves). A second business uses the technology … Read more
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