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New phones have been announced in Samsung’s Galaxy A range, which will be launched in the UK next April, and then expanded to global markets. Three sizes will be available: a 5.5″ (A7), 5.2″ (A5) and 4.7″ (A3). All of the phones feature the Samsung Pay mobile payment technology, which at the time of writing … Read more
Henk Snijder, country director for Tech Data in The Netherlands, has left the company for personal reasons. He will be temporarily replaced by Els Demeester.
Smithsonian has launched a new UltraHD service in the USA: a nature streaming service called Smithsonian Earth. At launch, it is available for $4 per month, exclusively on the Roku 4 player in UltrahD. Other devices can access the service in HD quality.
Qeexo, Co. (Mountain View, CA), a spin out of Carnegie Mellon University, has developed an algorithm that allows a device to estimate the angle of the user’s finger relative to the plane of the touchscreen when the finger is in contact with the touchscreen. The technology is called FingerAngle. FingerAngle is implemented entirely through software. … Read more
Last year Jaguar Land Rover announced that they are offering a newly-developed HUD on the new Land Rover Evoque. While HUD’s are becoming almost a must for luxury vehicles, this particular announcement is a little different as the specifics of the display technology are kind of a first for this technology. While HUDs today are … Read more
VirtualPorn360.com, the first website at an international stage to produce and distribute adult content in 360º for virtual reality devices, launches this week a streaming media player for Cardboard glasses. This new format provides the user the possibility to view the videos with the most affordable virtual reality headset on the market. Undoubtedly, this action … Read more
German consumer electronics company MEDION today announced that its new 7-inch MEDION® LIFETAB® P7332 tablet will be sold exclusively at ALDI stores in the United States. This product will be offered as a Special Buy with limited quantities available. The tablet provides quality performance in a 0.33 inch thin and 0.62 pound high-quality metal build, … Read more
KOE Europe’s new 5″ TFT-LCD display module uses a TN panel, but has ‘IPS-like’ performance. Many embedded, medical and industrial applications demand colour uniformity. KOE’s TX13D06VM5BAA is said to provide stable colour uniformity over an 80° viewing angle in both horizontal and vertical directions. 6-bit RGB is supported by the 40-pin CMOS interface. The module … Read more
Multiple methods are being developed to work with virtual reality, most involving an additional wearable, or some form of external camera. But what if the interaction became physical? The Human Media Lab of Queen’s University in Canada (and Belfast) has developed self-levitating 3D ‘pixels’ (voxels), using tiny drones. The system is known as BitDrones, and … Read more
Building on its work with the VPL-FHZ55, Sony’s first 3LCD laser projector, the company has developed a new, brighter replacement. Designed for multiple environments, including education, corporate and medical use, the VPL-FHZ57 (Sony Shares Big Plans for Laser) reaches 4,100 lumens of white and colour light output. It is capable of edge-blending, warping and vertical … Read more
While 2015 was a roller coaster one for the display industry, 2016 will be ‘sluggish’, according to IHS. 2015 began with ambitious business plans set by panel makers, based on an optimistic outlook at the end of 2014. Set makers, who experienced supply shortages at the end of that year, aggressively developed their panel demand-supply … Read more
Osram has developed new LEDs for TV backlighting with very high colour space coverage: the company claims that its ‘Quantum Colours’ (QC) LEDs cover 100% of DCI-P3 and more than 80% of Rec.2020. Compared to conventional quantum dot (QD) sheets, the QC LEDs are cheaper and cadmium-free – Osram claims that costs can be halved. … Read more
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