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China Manufacturing Slowdown as Woe’s Deepen

Source: HSBC China PMI Preliminary Report, Final numbers due April 1, 2015Preliminary numbers from the HSBC China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), a popular industry composite index tool used to track China’s manufacturing might, is showing signs of a slowdown in the China manufacturing space. The group recently reported its index fell to an 11 … Read more

Major League Baseball Seeking Investors for Streaming Business

MLB TV

Major League Baseball (MLB) owns MLB Advanced Media, a media technology company that powers not only its own sports stream but also operations of other providers. So far MLB.TV offers MLB team and player information as well as streaming all spring training games to mobile devices. Regular season games are so far subject to regional … Read more

Fulldome and Giant Screen Projection

On February 25 through March 1, 2015, IMERSA held its 6th annual Summit in Denver Colorado. IMERSA’s tag line is “Advancing the art and technology of immersive digital experiences” and its mission is to advance and promote the art and science of large-scale digital immersive media, fulldome, and immersive group experiences in digital planetariums, mobile … Read more

Large Displays and the Education Market (1)

Mountables

Always serving as bellwethers of change in the education market, the three winter ed-tech conferences in the US (TIES [MN], FETC [FL], and TCEA [TX]) never disappoint. Three compelling trends emerged from these stout conferences, all highly visible on the exhibit hall floor. Trend 1. For the first time, interactive large displays outpaced the number … Read more

Of Continuous Liquid Processing (CLIP) and Modular Devices

Word has come to light of a new continuous liquid interface process (CLIP) for short, that allows 3D ‘printed’ objects to rise out of a kind of primordial (resin) stew – in whole, “grown” through this continuous process – rather than the additive 3D printing of virtual computer images, known now for a decade or … Read more

Vitec to Unveil World’s First Portable HEVC Encoder and IPTV Solutions at 2015 NAB Show

VITEC, a worldwide leading provider of powerful digital video solutions, will exhibit exciting new products and its professional-grade video technologies at the 2015 NAB Show, April 13-16 in the Las Vegas Convention Center. Visitors to VITEC’s booth SL6305 can also register for a chance to win a GoPro camera. The VITEC booth will feature live … Read more

Magic Leap Shows a Glimps of Augmented Reality Game

Magic Leap made headlines after closing a financing round of over half a billion dollars last year. Just in case you wonder what you can do with that amount of cash, the company has uploaded the following video to give us all a hint of what to expect. The video shows a first person shooting … Read more

SiliconCore Granted Two Common Cathode LED Patents

SiliconCore has been granted two patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) which describe a common cathode LED system. The new patents, US 8963811 B2 and US 8963810 B2, both titled ‘LED Display Systems’, cover all methods of control and access to common cathode LEDs and all common architectural elements used to build … Read more

Li-Fi is not a Misprint…

We recently saw a news item stating that Yuyang D&U has started to commercialise Li-Fi and we thought it might be useful to give a bit of background on the technology. Yuyang has a deal with LG Innotek to develop the concept. Li-Fi is optical networking* and exploits the fact that LEDs are semiconductors and … Read more

Kyocera Introduces Robust 4.2” and 5.0” TFT LCD Displays for Outdoor Applications

Kyocera has introduced two small-form-factor TFT LCD displays that offer high performance and robust design for industrial markets. Available now, both products are designed to perform in harsh environment and extreme temperature applications including outdoor control panels, construction and agricultural equipment, avionics, and other devices that require reliable performance in the most punishing environments. The … Read more