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NEC was at the event sharing a booth with a company called 10 Squared, which provides fully customised display casings and enclosures and also Pixel Inspiration which develops retail applications, typically using Scala software. Demonstration monitors included a high brightness monitor and a video wall but the products were not new, as we were up … Read more
An Eyevis video wall has been installed in Calderdale Council’s CCTV monitoring centre in West Yorkshire in the UK. The wall is part of a £680,000 ($962,800) upgrade to the existing CCTV system, which was installed in the 1990s. Eight 47″ EYE-LCD-4700-USN-LD-FX displays are used to view images from 64 cameras, 24/7/365. They were installed … Read more
Espirit uses LEDs to frame and highlight the display in this totemPeter Livesey, owner of UK specialist digital signage provider, Espirit Digital, was in characteristically positive mood at the event. The company had some good looking LED, high brightness and touch displays on show. Livesey told us of a huge project that the firm completed … Read more
On March 9th and 10th, three exhibitions aimed at the retail business were co-located in London’s Olympia exhibition hall. The UK is, famously, seen as a “nation of shopkeepers”, and this was reflected in what seemed to be quite a lively event with, apparently, quite good quality visitors. One of the events was the “Retail … Read more
German and Spanish scientists have used luminescent proteins to create a pure white organic LED, at a lower cost than today’s conventional devices. The ‘BioLED’ uses proteins packaged in the form of rubber. Red, green and blue rubber layers cover a single LED, producing white light. Today’s white LEDs produce light that lacks a red … Read more
SiBeam has developed a USB 3.0 adaptor reference design, supporting the WiGig (aka IEEE 802.11ad) standard. Vendors can thus add wireless gigabit connectivity to computers. The system is designed to be interoperable with Qualcomm Atheros’ 802.11ad solution. Khurram Sheikh is the president of SiBeam and CTO of Lattice Semiconductor. He said, “The boom in applications … Read more
Photos that are said to be of the case for the iPhone 7 have appeared online – and, as (infamously) rumoured, it lacks a headphone jack. The Lightning connector will apparently be used to connected headphones instead. There is also no major change to the shape of the phone, although a curved display had previously … Read more
Flat Panels HD has picked up a snippet of news from a Philips whitepaper, which indicates the inclusion of dynamic metadata in HDMI 2.1. The HDMI Forum has not yet acknowledged the existence of HDMI 2.1. However, page six of Philips’ whitepaper (http://tinyurl.com/jtm49ag) – published in August last year – states, “HDMI 2.0a covers HDR … Read more
Photo: YonhapKorea’s Yonhap News claims that LG Display will supply 12.3″ plastic OLED screens to Mercedes-Benz, for the company’s new E-Class car. The screen will be composed of two segments, each showing different information.
JCDecaux has begun to roll out new screens for the London Digital Network, which it won the contract for last year (JCDecaux Replaces Clear Channel in London). 1,000 84″ (1920 x 1080) screens are being installed in locations such as Holborn, Knightsbridge and Covent Garden. They are almost 40% larger than the displays they will … Read more
More than 2,000 people attended the opening of Samsung’s 2016 roadshow in Cologne, Germany from the 2nd – 4th March. Samsung’s newest products, such as its SUHD TVs with HDR and transparent OLED displays, were shown. The roadshow travelled to Offenbach on the 10th March, and will head to Munich on the 15th. After that, … Read more
Research has been published showing how graphene can be used to create a material with the highest rate of light-absorption for its weight. Researchers from the UK’s University of Surrey believe that, among other uses, the material could be used to recover energy from waste light and heat in rooms, if used on the walls. … Read more
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