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Signature Plans For Birmingham Transport Extension

Signature Outdoor has installed a new LED display in Birmingham’s financial hub. Cityvision Snow Hill is a portrait-style unit overlooking Queensway, with a fortnightly impact of more 3.5 million people, following an upcoming tram extension. The display is 5.76m x 3.2m, with a 10mm pixel pitch and 300 cd/m² of brightness. Analyst Comment 300 cd/m² … Read more

iFixit Gives 2015 Macbook 1/10

Teardown specialist iFixit has found that the secret behind Apple’s new Macbook is…glue. Lots and lots of glue. The company gave the device a 1/10 repairability score. Most of the internals are battery, with the connector hidden underneath the notebook’s logic board, as it is on the iPad. The unit’s display is again fused to … Read more

Innovative Eye2TV Adapter Launches to Transform TV Viewing for Colour-Blind People

Spectral Edge (www.spectraledge.co.uk) today announced Eye2TV, its new smart HDMI adapter for colour-blind TV viewers and gaming enthusiasts. The new, UK-developed, product enhances video content for the estimated 4% of the world’s population that suffers from colour-blindness, making it easy to distinguish between red and green features and enabling on-screen objects to be easily distinguished. … Read more

Screen Innovations Introduces Short Throw Projection Screen and Partners with Sony

Screen Innovations (SI), purveyors of innovation in the two-piece projection industry, brings yet another new, never before seen technology to market by introducing the Short Throw (ST) projection screen designed exclusively for bottom-throw, ultra short throw projectors. The ST 5 Series screens will be sold to authorized SI dealers and distributors worldwide. SI has also … Read more

Dell Announces the Next Generation of Vostro Notebooks Tailor-Made for Mobile Business Professionals

Dell has announced the next generation of its Vostro line of productivity notebooks, offered to meet the unique needs of small businesses, home offices, and mobile professionals. The Vostro 14 and 15 3000 Series business notebooks offer essential features in a refined design, ideal for small business owners and entrepreneurs who need an affordable device … Read more

FlexEnable to Enhance the Global Graphene Value Chain

FlexEnable, the leader in the development and industrialisation of flexible electronics, has announced its participation in the Graphene Flagship, the EU’s biggest ever initiative in the field of graphene and related materials. FlexEnable has a track record of groundbreaking graphene innovation and industrialisation. Last year the company successfully demonstrated a truly flexible display based on … Read more

Flexenable Joins European Graphene Research

FlexEnable, a spin-off from Plastic Logic (Plastic Logic Divides into Two Companies), is now participating in the Graphene Flagship initiative (http://tinyurl.com/oo5gj7f). The Graphene Flagship is a research programme with a €1 billion budget, aiming to take graphene from laboratories into European society within 10 years. It was launched in 2013 and will move into the … Read more

Dell’s Vostro Notebooks Enhance Productivity

Dell’s Vostro notebook line, for mobile and home workers, now has new 14″ and 15″ models with multiple features designed for productivity. The Vostro 14 3000 and 15 3000 are less than 25mm thick, with a textured cover protecting them from scratches. Using Intel Core processors, up to Core i5, the notebooks will last for … Read more

Arri Revises Cameras and Monitors With Partnerships

Arri is developing a camera with Imax, it announced at the show. The new camera will be based on the popular 6k Alexa 65 camera, which will be used to film the third instalment of Marvel’s Captain America franchise. Post-processing will then convert the film for an Imax release. In the meantime, the companies will … Read more

US Smartphone Shares Flat From 2014

In the three months ending in February 2015, smartphones had penetrated almost 77% of the US market, according to Comscore – up 5% on the September – November 2014 period. The result represented 186.3 million smartphone owners. Apple led the market, with a 41.7% share, and Samsung followed at 28.6%; all other vendors had single-digit … Read more