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BenQ America Corp., an internationally renowned provider of visual display solutions, today introduced its newly minted gold version of the popular EW2440L monitor. Loaded with features that take mobile content to the screen, the vertical alignment display boasts mobile high-definition link (MHL®) technology, BenQ’s “Cinema Mode,” and razor-sharp 3000:1 contrast ratios that allow gaming, media … Read more
Digital Anarchy is an after-effects company, with software that digitally ‘touches up’ peoples’ faces in photographs. The company also has a version for video, Beauty Box Video, with real-time skin retouching and digital makeup application on HD and UltraHD footage. The new version (4.0) improves rendering speed on Nvidia and AMD GPUs. Comment Mediatek has … Read more
According to Juniper Research, worldwide revenues from connected healthcare and fitness services will approach $2 billion by 2019 – a 525% rise from this year’s estimated $320 million. Juniper also found that smart wireless devices will spread through the market – smart glasses in particular will have a large impact, but smartwatches will be the … Read more
Michael Edelman, CEO of cadmium-free quantum dots producer Nanoco, has criticised the European Commission’s decision to grant a Restriction on Hazardous Substances (RoHS) exemption to cadmium-containing QDs (EC Affirms Environmental Benefit of Cadmium-Based Quantum Dots). The exemption lasts until mid-2018. According to Edelman, the EU is acting under pressure from American companies, working with Chinese … Read more
UK AV specialist TD Maverick has announced three new appointments. Shaun Elliott has been hired as sales director to oversee the company’s future growth, while Simon Millidge joins as education channel manager. TD Maverick has also appointed Carmel Keightley as the business’s new marketing manager.
OLED-Info has published a new research report on the transparent OLED market. It details the advantages and properties of transparent OLED displays and lighting, as well as the challenges facing such products and market availability. The report is available for $200 (launch price) at http://tinyurl.com/pduw738.
Toshiba Germany has named René Klos as the company’s new business development manager for B2B sales of digital signage displays, covering Germany, Austria and the Benelux region. Klos joins Toshiba from LG Electronics Germany GmbH where he most recently served as product manager for projectors, hotel TV and large format displays.
JCDecaux subsidiary Sopact has installed the first of 2,000 new bus shelters in Paris (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 3); work is expected to continue until the summer. Around 100 of the shelters will be equipped with 32″ touch screens, another 100 will use solar panels and 50 will have plants on the roof. The … Read more
Exceet Electronics GmbH claims to have developed a way to implement gesture control, without using cameras. The system is based on electronic field lines, and their modification through gestures. It can be installed in ‘low-cost’ devices of all types. Camera-based gesture control is relatively expensive and sensitive. It also generates and needs to process a … Read more
Advantech has introduced the IDS-3121W, a widescreen open frame monitor with five-wire resistive touch. The monitor can be installed in a cabinet with a custom face plate. A 20% space saving is claimed over competing models, as the two-piece metal frame is 48mm thick. Advantech says that similar models are usually more than 60mm thick. … Read more
Chinese manufacturer Oppo has – apparently – made the bezels on its upcoming smartphone thinner than any we have seen before. So much so that ‘seen’ is a bit of a misnomer! Various websites have published supposed leaked images of the phone. Images can be faked, of course – although GSM Arena’s discovery of an … Read more
Serbia has begun its analogue switch-off, starting in the town of Vrsac. The country’s DTT network currently reaches 93.6% of the population; the head of the national broadcast operator Emisiona Tehnika i Veze believes that meeting the June 2015 deadline will not be a problem.
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