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We were kept busy at the Toshiba stand for at least an hour and a half last year, but the 2015 booth was much more compact. Toshiba had moved from Hall 22 to Hall 12: a smaller space that it shares with Razer, Acer and Wacom. Since IFA 2014, Toshiba has moved away from TVs … Read more
Every year, Ericsson commissions a survey on how consumers are using content and video. We were able to get a look at the survey results this year and they make interesting reading. The survey is conducted in nine “trend” markets and 11 additional markets and uses data from interviews, online surveys and user tracking. Ericsson … Read more
We always spend a long time on Haier’s stand, because the company seems to cram in all sorts of products that we’re interested in, from mobile screens to large TV sets. This year was no different. 19 new TV models were introduced at IFA 2015, across five ranges. Haier’s UltraHD TV series was relaunched, and … Read more
Kazuo Hirai is the President and CEO of Sony, and he was at the show in that position for the fourth time. At the time he took over, Sony was re-structuring. Hirai said that he now believes that Sony is set back on a path for growth and development of innovative consumer products that “engage … Read more
Lenovo subsidiary Medion was not showing all of its new products on the stand – the brand had, somewhat oddly, decided to give the space to existing products, instead. However, there was enough information and people to talk to that we were able to cover what wasn’t there! No-one that we talked to knew release … Read more
Philips’ press conference, since last year, is divided between three product areas: health, wellbeing and appliances; audio (since the relaunch of the Gibson brand at IFA 2014); and displays. Only the final area is really relevant to us, although we did see a new fitness tracker wearable called the Philips Health Watch. Nico Vernieuwe from … Read more
Taking a leaf from Apple’s book, Huawei revealed its self-titled Huawei Watch at IFA – with an Apple-like price tag. Starting at €335 for the leather version, the most expensive steel model (plated with rose gold, and featuring a metal strap) will cost a much more substantial €590. First though, some specifications. The Huawei Watch … Read more
We met up with Lenovo at the show, but there weren’t any new display products on the booth, we were told. We were surprised, then, when we got back to the office to find news of a Yoga Tab 3 Pro which is a 10″ tablet with an integrated projector that is said to support … Read more
A new report from IHS shows that US pay TV companies suffered their worst ever quarterly video subscriber losses in Q2, losing 658,450 subscribers. According to IHS, this is the first time non-cable pay TV operators lost video subscribers, since satellite operators entered the pay TV business in the early 1990s. IPTV operators achieved growth … Read more
A target for some time has been a fabric that can be made to change color and pattern at will. Recent developments reported by researchers at the University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL) seems to bring such a capability closer to reality. A team led by Debashis Chanda of the University’s NanoScience Technology Center and … Read more
A team of researchers at the Centre of Molecular Materials for Photonics and Electronics within the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom) is developing means to improve the performance of Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) spatial light modulators such as those used in a variety of holographic display systems. By this means, the goal is … Read more
The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill presented a new method of cryptography based on augmented reality. The system is based on visual cryptography and uses two independent displays that combine into a single image to provide the message. The system is a form of “one time pads” that have been used for … Read more
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