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Samsung, in its ‘Smart Futures’ report, claims that companies that fail to adopt new, smart technologies may not be around in 10 years’ time. Samsung’s report was produced in partnership with The Future Laboratory, MIT, Google and IBM. It details Samsung’s view of ‘the office of the future’. The company predicts that interactive smart surfaces … Read more
For those that grew up tapping away on the giant keyboard of a Commodore 64, this news might be a welcome surprise. The brand is being resurrected – as a smartphone. Sharing its name with Commodore’s other iconic PC, the Commodore PET is being created by a pair of Italian developers. According to Wired, Massimo … Read more
Asus CEO Jerry Shen has said that the company expects to ship between 7 million and 9 million tablets this year – down as much as 25.5% from 2014’s 9.4 million. At the end of June, the company had sold 2.7 million tablets this year: down 34.1% YoY. Shen said that sales are expected to … Read more
Asustek Computer said it expects its tablet business to break even this year, after reporting losses for its tablet operations in 2014 and the first half of this year. The company has taken measures to adjust its supply chain and reduce the number of models produced to bring down total operating costs. Asustek’s tablet shipments … Read more
Sources in Asia say that Chinese makers’ LCD capacity will pass Koreans’ in 2016, due to new and expanded G8 production. Meanwhile, Korean companies are increasingly looking to AMOLED. The sources said that Samsung Display can currently produce 30,000 substrates a month at its A3 line, and plans to add more production lines. We have … Read more
As anyone with any connection to the Internet knows (i.e. all DD readers), the New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to dwarf planet Pluto at 7:50AM EDT (11:50 Universal Time, as used by astronomers) on July 14th. The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) carried it live on its giant IMAX screen and I … Read more
DDD, a company that has been involved with stereoscopic 3D for over 20 years, has released a new product called TriDef SmartCam. It is essentially a virtual green screen application that allows you to remove the background and insert any background you want (like with a real green screen application). However, the SmartCam does this … Read more
Visualization pioneer Barco provided the optimum large-canvas multimedia display solution for the University of California, Riverside to broadcast student recreation activities and live sports in its new activity center: a 27’ x 15’ Barco OVD/KVD series LCD display wall, the industry’s only worry-free video wall for critical applications. Serving as the nerve center for its … Read more
In an article in “Ergonomics in Design“, a quarterly peer-reviewed publication of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society, researchers published a report on a project they undertook at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, in the US, to study the use of gaze recognition to control the switching between screens in a simulated video … Read more
Westinghouse launched two UltraHD desktop monitors, for professional users, at CE Week in New York last month. The 28″ WE28UX8310 and 39.5″ WE40UX8310 can show 12-bit colour and feature a variety of ports. The new screens are intended for use in the design, architectural and financial services industries. Applications such as these require large, high-resolution … Read more
V-Nova has shown off the capability of its Perseus compression technology (V-Nova’s Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements), for use in aerospace applications. The codec was used in the flight of Airbus’ all-electric E-Fan technology demonstrator aircraft across the English Channel. Perseus was used during the flight to provide up- and downstream 1280 x 720 video, … Read more
V-Nova Ltd., a leading provider of signal compression solutions, demonstrated the capability of its ground-breaking Perseus data compression technology for aerospace applications as part of the all-electric Airbus Group E-Fan technology demonstrator aircraft’s historic flight across the English Channel. During the flight – the first such crossing by an e-aircraft – PERSEUS enabled up- and … Read more
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