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Baird’s TV only had 30 lines of vertical resolutionJohn Logie Baird – the inventor of the television set – showed off his creation in London, 90 years ago. The original box was a gimmick for attracting shoppers in Selfridges – but was also the first mechanical TV. Very different from today’s electronic models, Baird’s device … Read more
Christie® Solaria® Series 2K/4K Projectors and Christie Vive Audio™ cinema sound systems are powering 12 of the 13 screens at the new Larry H. Miller Megaplex Theatres in Vineyard, Utah, which held its grand opening ceremonies on March 13. Installed by Christie partner CLACO Equipment & Services, the new Megaplex is an integral part of … Read more
A camera monitor the size of a smartphone has been introduced by SmallHD. The unit is described as ‘the sharpest 5″ camera-top monitor in the world’ – it has 1920 x 1080 resolution (441 ppi) The 502 covers up to 85% of the NTSC colour gamut ‘rivaling OLED technology’, claims SmallHD. It also features a … Read more
Asus has added Informatica Megasur as notebook distributor in Spain.
AV distributor Medium UK has expanded its offering with the full range of digital signage media players manufactured by AOPEN. The partnership adds to Medium’s existing portfolio of large format displays and connectivity products.
A man has fixed his dead laptop by baking it in an oven. Sean Buckley, writing for Gizmodo, fixed his device following a recipe from the world’s greatest cookbook: the internet. The actual problem was a faulty Nvidia GPU (the same responsible for the Xbox’s ‘red ring of death’), which would overheat and melt the … Read more
Asahi Glass will expand its polyvinyl chloride (PVC) capacity at a local subsidiary in Vietnam by 50% by early 2016. Annual capacity will reach 150,000 tons. In addition, the Vietnamese unit will increase procurement of a PVC precursor from another Asahi subsidiary in Indonesia, according to the Nikkei.
The 69.5″ 7001LT is Elo’s new large-format multi-touch display, for retail, hospitality, real estate, education and other commercial applications. To facilitate use in commercial environments, the unit is slim (94mm), complying with the American Disability Association’s guidelines of less than a 101.5mm (4″) protrusion for wall-mounted products. Up to 10 touches can be registered at … Read more
SBB, the Swiss railway operator, has expanded its digitisation project (SBB Invests CHF15 Million in LED Displays) and revealed the name of the display supplier. Rather than 44 LED displays, SBB now intends to roll out up to 50, supplied by Daktronics. 42 displays will have been installed at 15 stations this year, with the … Read more
Stanford University researchers have developed a new manufacturing process for gallium arsenide – a semiconductor material that is faster than silicon, but around 1,000 times more expensive to work with. Smartphones already use gallium arsenide, due to its speed. Solar panels are among other applications, thanks to the material’s efficiency, but the expense limits the … Read more
Samsung is working with the Stanford Research Institute to improve the security of its mobile devices. SRI has an iris-scanning technology that Samsung will integrate into a custom version of its Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 tablet. The tablet will be shown at the ISC West show in Las Vegas in April. According to SRI, its … Read more
An undergraduate at Purdue University in the USA has suggested a way to counter the ‘motion sickness of virtual reality’ by programming in a virtual nose. Motion sickness occurs when you see motion with your eyes without feeling motion in your vestibular system (i.e. actually feeling movement). Fixed-reference objects, like window frames, help to stop … Read more
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