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Dissecting the 2015 K12 Horizon Report

This summer the New Media Consortium (NMC), together with the Consortium for School Networking (COSN), released their annual K12 Horizon Report, a document which can be very informative for manufacturers and integrators in the display industry. According to the NMC, ‘The NMC Horizon Report series charts the five-year horizon for the impact of emerging technologies … Read more

AV Stumpfl Revives the Bronze Age

AV Stumpfl’s control, multimedia and screen products have been used in the new Bronze Age Cinema, 400m below the ground at Austria’s Saltzwelten salt mine experience. Located in a 1,000m³ cavern, the Cinema uses a 10m x 3m projection screen and four Canon XEED WUX400ST projectors. Content is supplied from AV Stumpfl’s FHD Players. After … Read more

AV Stumpfl Helps Take 4K Cinema Underground and Back to Bronze Age!

Multimedia specialists, Scenomedia’s latest installation at Austria’s famous Salzwelten salt mine experience includes the new Bronze Age Cinema located 400 metres below the Earth’s surface in natural Dachstein limestone bedrock of the Hallstatt Mountain Salt Mines in Austria. Scenomedia installed AV Stumpfl show control, multimedia and screens as core technology throughout. Archaeology meets technology The … Read more

Apple’s PrimeSense Tech Turns 2D into 3D

An Apple patent, describing a method for rendering 2D images and video so that they appear 3D, has been discovered at the US Patent & Trade Office. According to Patently Apple, the effect is achieved by simulating the imaging characteristics of the parallax effect and depth of field. Click to enlarge. An example of a … Read more

Eizo Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Breast Tomosynthesis for RadiForce GX540 Medical Monitor

EIZO Corporation (TSE: 6737) announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for breast tomosynthesis from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its 5 megapixel monochrome medical monitor, the RadiForce GX540. Digital breast tomosynthesis is a method of breast screening that allows the radiologist to view detailed 3-dimensional images of the breast assembled from … Read more

Cima NanoTech Announces JV with Foxconn to Manufacture Touch Modules

Cima NanoTech, a developer and manufacturer of transparent conductive film solutions, announced today that it has entered into a joint venture with Foxconn, the world’s largest ICT technology provider and vertically integrated device manufacturer, to deliver the industry’s first cost-competitive, projected capacitive (pro-cap) solution for large format touch screens. Both companies will sell SANTE® ProTouch™ … Read more

AG Neovo Lowers Signage Cost

AG Neovo has launched the PM-Series: a budget range of large format displays with slim bezels, for digital signage applications. Featuring USB playback (USB 2.0 port) and DLNA compliance, the four products in the range are designed to make installation user-friendly. With DLNA, content can be shared between different devices, such as mobile phones and … Read more

Flexible Encapsulation Worth $184 Billion in Five Years

The market for flexible barrier manufacturing will be worth $184 million by 2020, says IDTechEx. Single-layer solutions, such as flexible glass and atomic layer deposition (ALD) will capture part of the market. Due to its fragility and limits of flexibility – it cannot be stretched out of axis – flexible glass is not likely to … Read more

Euronics Gets Exclusive Deal on Philips TVs

TP Vision has signed an exclusive deal with Euronics to supply the three top models in Philips’ 6550 Ambilight fullHD TV range. The company will sell the 40″, 50″ and 55″ 3-sided Ambilight models for prices ranging from £550 ($860) to £900 ($1,400), and will also have access to the 32″ 2-sided Ambilight TV which … Read more

Archos ‘Reveals’ Windows 10 Mobile Release

A product announcement by French firm Archos has provided a hint at when Windows 10 Mobile might be available. Archos will launch the 50 Cesium and 50e Helium smartphones this year, in November. Although identical in terms of hardware, the phones are differentiated by their operating systems: the Cesium runs Windows 10 (although we must … Read more