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The market for wearable devices is experiencing a period of heady growth, thus far driven primarily by consumer adoption of fitness trackers, but with smart watches catching up fast and expected to eclipse fitness tracker unit volumes by the end of 2015. According to a recent report from Tractica, wearables adoption among consumers and business … Read more
Felix Pementel of BenQ looked at what makes a great image on a projector. “Do you really give the consumer the specifications they really need to make a good buying decisions?”, he asked. He agreed with Chinnock that sRGB brightness is often very different from the marketing brightness. (See Insight Reports on ColorSpark Testing (DS8)). … Read more
TV outsourcing will reach a record high this year, says IHS DisplaySearch. TV sets made by outsourcing specialists will represent 43% of LCD TVs shipped worldwide in 2015. Outsourcing is now one of the most important strategies for TV brands; it can improve both supply chain cost management and time-to-market business opportunities. Constraints in TV … Read more
Chris Chinnock of Insight Media gave more details about the testing of solid state projectors that it carried out to help get a sense of what users thought of the new ColorSpark technology, side by side with existing systems. The firm set up a number of different projectors with hybrid (LED & Laser), laser phosphor … Read more
NEC’s UM352Wi is a UST 3LCD projector for education, supporting multiple pen inputs at the same time. Up to 50 devices can be connected to the projector at the same time, wirelessly, with screen mirroring via Miracast and NEC’s Displaynote software. A maximum of 16 devices can be mirrored at once. Alternatively, content can be … Read more
Peter Vankan is R&D Director for Philips Lighting which also has responsibility for projection light sources as well as general lighting. First, Vankan looked back to 1994, when the company first made the UHP lamp and changed the projection industry. In 2004, the Vidi version of the lamp came along to improve the colour quality … Read more
Delta used InfoComm 2015 to show the world’s first rear-projection cube based on a laser-phosphor DLP engine. It increases brightness from 350 nits to 750 nits, but does sacrifice lifetime and color gamut. The company also showed updates and a lower price for the 2 or 3 projector blended wall collaborative solution.
Three rival gangs face-off. Someone fires a shot. Bullets fly. People die. Such typical scenes in a John Woo film illustrate the concept of stochastic battles. Lanchester first developed useful mathematic models of such conflicts during WWI, when machine guns changed the nature of warfare. The US Navy developed Lanchester’s ideas further when executing its … Read more
PMR’s latest research report covers the IT market in Poland, which is dominated by large companies as customers. These companies invest heavily in advanced implementations, despite relatively high saturation and short lifespan of computing systems. However, in the current economic climate, even these clients have to optimise their spending. Of particular interest to our readers … Read more
Xiaomi is using Synaptics’ Clearpad touchscreen and display driver solutions for its Mi Note and Note Pro smartphones.
US-based Invisage Technologies is developing a light capture film for image sensors, based on quantum dots. The company has now opened its first sensor-manufacturing facility at the Hsinchu Science Park in Taiwan. The films (QuantumFilm technology) will be introduced later this year. Invisage is working with TSMC for wafer manufacturing and VisEra Technologies for colour … Read more
Samsung’s Galaxy A8 smartphone, which has been the subject of rumours for several months, has appeared at China’s TENAA regulatory commission. The phone will be shipped with a 5.7″ AMOLED display (1920 x 1080). Android 5.1 will run on an octa-core processor (1.7GHz Snapdragon 615), with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. The battery … Read more
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