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RGBlink is All Modular

China’s RGBlink produces a large variety of digital infrastructure products, including scalers, switchers, routers, mixers and video wall matrices. At Plasa, the company was showing two new products: the Venus X3 video wall controller and X2 router. Housed in a 3RU chassis, the X3 video wall controller is a modular unit that can accept different … Read more

LEDs Light Up PLASA

London’s Excel hosts PLASA every year, a show dedicated to the UK professional light and sound markets. Video, however, is a growing presence at the event, especially with the rise of LED displays for rental and staging. Being focused on the exhibition market, PLASA is full of special effects – this year, artifical smoke was … Read more

Absen Flying High with Norwegian Digital Signage Airport Solutions

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Thanks in no small part to the opening of a European base in 2013, Absen LED panels are to be found in an ever increasing number of high footfall places. The latest venues to benefit from Absen’s technology are three major Norwegian airports. Dubbed by Absen European Managing Director Ruben Rengel as “one of the … Read more

Clear Channel Takes Absen to New Heights

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Absen’s LED panels have seen an investment by Clear Channel Norway, which has installed them in three separate airports across the country: Stavanger, Bergen and Trondheim. The Stavanger installation is particularly noteworthy, consisting of a 57m² display using Absen’s AI03 (3.9mm pixel pitch) product. The installations in Bergen and Trondheim are 20m² and 7m², respectively.

MicroVision’s PicoP® Display Technology Integrated in Innovative Sharp Corporation Mobile Robot Phone Product

MicroVision, Inc. (NASDAQ: MVIS), a leader in innovative ultra-miniature projection display technology, today announced that its PicoP® display technology is at the heart of the projected display in Sharp’s new RoBoHoN robot with integrated smartphone functionality. This innovative product was launched today at CEATEC Japan 2015. MicroVision has been collaborating with Sharp, a Fortune Global … Read more

IHS Announces Touch Gesture Motion and Emerging Display Technologies 2015 Conference Agenda

IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight, today announced the agenda for the company’s upcoming Touch Gesture Motion and Emerging Display Technologies 2015 conference, to be held on November 12 – 13, 2015 at the San Jose Marriot in San Jose, California. The conference agenda covers traditional and emerging … Read more

Qi Standard to Maintain Its Lead in the Wireless Charging Space According to ABI Research

Two wireless charging standards are competing for market share as the next generation of resonant wireless technologies is nearing readiness. ABI Research forecasts that through 2020, 713 million Qi and 213 million Powermat/Rezence chargers will ship, along with a small number of proprietary technologies. The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), with its Qi standard, leads shipments … Read more

Qi Will Maintain Lead in Wireless Power

ABI Research expects the Wireless Power Consortium’s Qi specification to remain dominant through 2020. ABI expects 713 million Qi chargers to be shipped by the end of 2020, compared to 213 million Powermat/Rezence chargers (controlled by the Alliance for Wireless Power – A4WP). Qi is an inductive power standard, capable of transferring up to 15W … Read more

AptoVision’s BlueRiver NT chipset named Video Distribution Product of the Year

St Laurent, Quebec, Canada, October 6th, 2015 – AptoVision, a pioneer of game-changing AV chipset technology and winner of the 2014 Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ Jury’s Favourite prize, today announced that its BlueRiver NT chipset has won the Video Distribution Product of the Year award at the prestigious AV Awards 2015 event hosted by AV … Read more

Microsoft Makes a Splash in Laptop Market

Microsoft used an event in the USA to announce its first-ever laptop, which appears to have been well-received by market watchers. We have covered the product, as well as Microsoft’s other announcements, in more detail in ‘Microsoft Announces New Phone, Band, Tablet and Laptop in New York‘, but present a summary here. Called ‘the first-ever … Read more