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E Ink Expands Spectra Product Family To Include Yellow

E Ink® Holdings, “E Ink” (8069.TW), the leading innovator of electronic ink technology in the world, today announced the expansion of its E Ink Spectra™ product line to include yellow. Spectra yellow gives retailers further choices in how they use Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs) to promote their merchandise and support their branding strategies, giving retailers … Read more

Acer’s Projectors Compensate for Ambient Light

Three DLP projectors and two AIO PCs have been introduced by Acer at Computex. All three projectors have 1920 x 1080 resolution and support MHL technology, as well as Acer’s ColorBoost 3D and ColorSafe II technologies. They are the V7500, H6518BD and a UST model, the U5520B. The V7500 is a home theatre model, with … Read more

Acer Takes Four Wins at Computex

Acer’s Revo One RL85 (Acer Attempts to Kickstart Notebook Innovation) has won two awards at Computex. The mini PC took home ‘Best Choice of the Year’ and ‘Best Choice Gold’ in the Computer & Systems category. Acer’s S277HK monitor and Chromebook 11 also won Best Choice awards, in the Touch & Display and Cloud Computing … Read more

3M Survey Indicates 90% of Americans Still Seek Better Display Quality in Electronic Devices

Ninety percent of Americans surveyed have come to expect significant technology upgrades when purchasing next-generation LCD electronic devices, such as mobile phones, notebook PCs, tablets and LCD TVs, according to a recent survey commissioned by 3M. Specifically, the company’s survey sheds light on the latest electronic tech trends that will impact consumers’ daily life in … Read more

Lenovo Moves Head of Mobile Unit

Chen XudongLenovo has announced a change in senior leadership at its mobile business group. Liu Jun, executive VP and chairman of the Motorola Mobility management board, will become a special consultant to the CEO on mobile business and strategy ‘for a certain period of time’. No further details were disclosed nor a reason given. He … Read more

MMD Claims First QD-LCD Monitor

While we will cover MMD’s newest monitor in our SID report, we felt that it was worth pulling out and highlighting it here, as well. The 27E6ADS, which has been launched in China, is a Philips-branded model that is said to be the world’s first quantum dot monitor. >The 27″ display uses optical components from … Read more

E Ink Upgrades Colour Announces Shelf Label Partnership

At SID Display Week 2015, we took time to meet with global marketing director of E Ink Holdings, Giovani Mancini to discuss the latest developments in the E Ink (e paper) universe. This includes adding a new color to its EPH (electrophoretic) displays, “…making them particularly suitable for the electronic shelf label market,” Mancini told … Read more

E Fun Promotes ‘Affordable’ Hybrids

Two new Intel-powered tablets are now on sale at Walmart in the USA, from E Fun. Both are hybrid models running Windows 8.1, with a detachable keyboard. The tablets feature micro-HDMI and micro-USB ports, and the keyboard adds two USB 2.0 inputs. Both models use quad-core 1.83GHz Intel Atom processors with 2GB of RAM and … Read more

Thunderbolt Switches to USB, Reaches 40GB

Big news from Intel at Computex was the introduction of the third generation of the Thunderbolt interface, which can transfer 40Gbps of data per second. In context, that is an UltraHD film in 30 seconds. The connection can also drive two DCI-4k displays at 60Hz and 30bpp at once. Thunderbolt 3 “fulfills the promise of … Read more