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A device called the Touchjet Wave has appeared on a crowdfunding site, promising to turn a TV into a ‘touchscreen’. The device is clipped to the top of a TV and uses IR touch to detect finger movements. It will also add Android to the TV, via HDMI, turning it into a smart set. Mobile … Read more
Lenovo is the newest Chinese manufacturer to include USB-C on its smartphones: this time in the form of the ZUK (unfortunate branding – TA) Z1. Unlike rivals with USB-C, such as the OnePlus 2, however, Lenovo’s phone features USB 3.0 speeds, rather than USB 2.0 – a first for smartphones. USB data rate is up … Read more
Quanta Computer says it is to end its research and development partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) this year, after 10 years of co-operation. The Taiwanese firm has already begun to move equipment back from MIT, saying that the partnership has already achieved its original goal.
Sources from the upstream supply chain have said that Microsoft’s orders for new Surface 2-in-1 devices will be 50% higher than last year in Q4’15. Order visibility has already reached the end of 2015, say the sources, and components are being prepared now.
Strong sales of consumer electronics helped Foxconn Electronics to record a 20% year on year increase in sales in July, reaching NT$312.2 billion ($9.7 billion), 2% down on June. Sales in the first seven months of the year were 13.6% ahead of the same period of 2014, at NT$2.3 trillion ($71.4 billion). The launch of … Read more
The switch to digital broadcasting is on track in South Africa. The Minister of Communications has planned a consultation with the Cabinet, about the planned date to launch the country’s DTT platform. Orders for DTT STBs will be placed before the end of the month.
Thomson Broadcast, Sagemcom and Canal+ are seeking to build and manage DTT platforms in several African countries. These countries include the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Benin and Cameroon. The companies have already received a contract to deploy the DTT platform in Cape Verde.
Source: 4k.comQuebec-based Videotron has announced an UltraHD set-top box – which it says is Canada’s first that is commercially available. The box, made by Samsung, will have eight tuners and storage for 115 hours of UHD content. Users will initially have access to UHD content via VoD, with more to be added later. The box … Read more
Researcher Gaku Narita and his colleagues at Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory at the University of Tokyo and Tokyo Electron Device Ltd. co-developed a high-speed projector capable of projecting images with a frame rate of 1,000 fps. Information on the system, called DynaFlash by the researchers, was posted online on July 28. The DynaFlash system includes a … Read more
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “4K Technology Market by Product (TVs, Monitors, Digital Signage, Set-Top Boxes, Smartphones, Tablets, Laptops, Projectors, Cameras, and Blu-Ray Players) and Geography (North America, Europe, APAC, and RoW) – Global Analysis and Forecast to 2020” report to their offering. This report describes market trends, drivers, restraints, opportunities, … Read more
BenQ America Corp., an internationally renowned digital lifestyle solutions provider, today announced its exciting product lineup for SIGGRAPH 2015. Powered by the company’s Eye-Care technology, BenQ’s leading class of professional creative monitors features innovations such as 100% standard Red, Green, Blue (sRGB) color accuracy, lifelike 4K2K resolutions, as well as application-specific functions such as CAD/CAM … Read more
The Roku TVs from Haier America, which we saw at CES, have been launched in the USA. These models, in 32″, 43″, 49″ and 55″ sizes, integrate the Roku smart TV system directly. They cost $300 (32E4000R), $450 (43E4500R), $600 (49E4500R) and $750 (55E4500R). The 40″, 50″ and 55″ TVs in Hisense‘s K321 range are … Read more
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