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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
EarthLCD of California has developed a 15″ and 21.5″ open frame “panel PC” based on Baanto’s ShadowSense technology. The firm has also developed a “Pi-box”, an aluminium enclosure that encloses a Raspberry Pi Model B+ or Pi 2 and can be bolted onto the VESA mounting points on the back of a monitor.
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 (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 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, 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, 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 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 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
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
A report on video-on-demand has been published by the European Commission. ‘The development of the European market for on-demand audiovisual services’ was prepared by the European Audiovisual Observatory. It presents statistics for European VoD in 2014, as well as covering five different sections as they relate to the sector: online advertising; developments in the SVOD … Read more
A UK company called Spectral Edge has announced an HDMI adapter for colour blind TV viewers, called the Eye2TV. The device is meant to make it easier to distinguish between red and green, as well as defining on-screen objects more clearly. A campaign is running on Kickstarter to fund the adapter (http://tinyurl.com/nt9fpqf), with the goal … Read more
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