Mobile World Round-Up Part 1
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
Sharp and Intel Debut Mini OPS at DSE 2016
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
RDSE 2016 Round-up
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
Imagotag Adds NFC to ESLs
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 Starts to Supply SPP LED
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 Shows Unique Advantages of Projection
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 Promotes Bonding & E Ink
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
LG Explains its B2B Strategy
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 Exploits HPC in Retail
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
AMD Enables eGPUs With Thunderbolt
AMD has announced that its new technology, XConnect, is behind Razer’s new Core external GPU product (Razer Shaves Weight From the Blade). The Razer Core is an external GPU Add-in-Board (AIB) holder. Using it, owners can add significant graphical power to the new Razer Blade Stealth, which features an integrated GPU. It will be shipped … Read more
LGD Plans G5 OLED Plant
LG Display is to construct a G5 OLED lighting fab in Gumi, South Korea. Initial capacity will be 15,000 substrates, which could be ramped up ‘depending on the market situation’. Analyst Comment LG showed new OLED solutions at – we believe – Light + Building 2016 in Frankfurt this week. Largely, the company was focused … Read more
Optoma Working on VR
Jon Peddie’s Techwatch newsletter has covered a VR story that we missed at CES – but, as the product was only shown behind closed doors, we don’t feel too bad about it. Image: TechwatchOptoma is best-known for its projectors, but has now confirmed to us that it is also building a VR headset. You might … Read more
