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Canatu Launches High Transmittance CNB™ Transparent Conductive Film for Touch Sensors

Canatu, a manufacturer of next generation transparent conductive films and touch sensors, announces a new generation of high optical transmittance CNB™ (Carbon NanoBud®)transparent conductive films at PrintedElectronics Europe in Berlin on April 28th, 2015. Canatu’s Generation 6 CNB™ Film boasts significantly improved light transmittance. With zero haze, zero reflectance and high transmittance, CNB films have … Read more

Canatu Raises Light Transmittance

Canatu announced a new generation of high-optical-transmittance carbon nanobud (CNB) films at Printed Electronics Europe last month. The Generation 6 film features ‘significantly improved’ light transmittance over previous products, as well as zero haze or reflectance. On a sheet resistance of 100 Ohms/square, transmittance is 95% – and 97% at 150 Ohms/square. Canatu also said … Read more

Rice Uni Bringing Touch to Gaming in a Whole New Way

The USA’s Rice University is developing haptics for virtual reality, to provide gamers with physical feedback. The Hands Omni glove is a prototype, sponsored by VR company Virtuix. The glove inflates bladders underneath the fingers, to make it feel as though a gamer is actually holding a real object. Analyst Comment Is this wearable the … Read more

Albis Focuses on IPTV

Albis Technologies showed its Scenegate set-top boxes. These are designed to support both traditional (IPTV, broadcast and VoD) and value-added services (OTT, interactive, media sharing). The Scenegate 8073 is Albis’ newest STB, introduced at IBC 2014. It is an entry-level IPTV and OTT unit, with DLNA support and delivering 1920 x 1080 resolution. The box … Read more

Amino Rolls Out Smart Home to Non-IP Customers

Multiscreen solutions were the highlight of Amino’s stand. The company is an IPTV specialist and was highlighting the technology’s distribution capabilities. Amino was showcasing an UltraHD HEVC platform using its Aminet software, as well as the Live Advanced Media Platform and Premium Connect solution. The latter two products are used for multi-stream recording and multi-screen … Read more

Anga Com Replaces STB Vendors

Anga Com 2015 will take place in Cologne, Germany from the 9th – 11th June, and bookings have exceeded expectations. 440 exhibitors from 35 countries have booked space so far. Anga Com managing director, Peter Charissé, said, “We have been able to more than compensate the market-driven decline among set-top-box providers by new participants from … Read more

Clear Channel’s Storm Spreads Over Midlands

Clear Channel has launched two new sites, under its Storm brand. The first, the Hammersmith Tower, is on the Hammersmith Flyover in London – the sixteenth location in the city for the Storm network. The screen is 5.38m x 6.91m, with a 12mm pixel pitch on the main screen and 6mm pitch on the logo … Read more

DisplayLink Dock Accepts Multiple Device Types

At the recent Interop Las Vegas Expo, DisplayLink showed a dock that connected to a new Macbook, Chromebook Pixel 2 and Windows notebook via USB-C, and existing notebooks, tablets and Android smartphones through USB-A. DisplayLink was highlighting USB’s flexibility and simplicity across connections and operating systems.

LG Brings Premium Features to Tiny Projector

LG’s new ‘Mini Beam’ DLP projector, the PF1500G, is a bright LED projector designed for portability; it weighs 1.5kg and measures 132 x 220 x 84mm. The Mini Beam has installation flexibility. It features four-point (vertical and horizontal) keystone correction and a 1.1x optical zoom. Focus is manual. Projection can take place from 1m – … Read more