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81% of US households own at least one HD TV, according to the Leichtman Research Group, and 51% own multiple HD TVs. This is up from 46% and 17% in 2010. UltraHD TV awareness has grown rapidly, to 41% of US adults (from 30% in 2014). 26% of those who have seen an UltraHD TV … Read more
Lenovo (Motorola’s new owner) CEO Yang Yuanqing appears to have pre-empted an official announcement of a next-generation Moto 360 smartwatch, by sharing a picture on his Weibo account. Yang alluded to the smartwatch in the post, which was quickly deleted. A new design, with lugs to attach new bands and which hides the ambient light … Read more
IHS DisplaySearch has released its panel price data for March. Downward trends were seen in almost every market segment. Weak demand meant that monitor panel prices continued to fall. Vendors still have inventories, so panel makers are finding sell-out a challenge and are offering many incentives and deals. Due to slow demand for notebook and … Read more
A contract to operate street furniture in the Hague area, in the Netherlands, has been won by Exterion Media. Exterion will operate the furniture for the next five years. The contract covers 2,500 advertising spaces on a 2m² format.
Tino LohseHisense Germany has hired two new regional sales executives. Tino Lohse joins the company from Schmid Electronics GmbH and has also worked for Vestel and Beko. He will be responsible for sales in the southeast of Germany. Michael Huml takes charge of the northeast region and joins Hisense from Pioneer Electronics Deutschland Automotive.
TCO Development has opened a draft criteria document for stakeholder comment (http://tinyurl.com/pb7gjrd), as part of its review of the TCO Certified criteria (TCO Reviews TCO Certified Criteria). The draft document deals with TCO Certified Displays 7, but criteria will be largely similar for all product categories. The document will be open for comment until 19th … Read more
Barco’s Coronis Uniti medical display (Barco Unifies Radiology Workflows) has been named as a 2015 finalist for the 2015 Edison Awards. These awards recognise innovation, creativity and ingenuity.
UK-based Display Solutions has developed a new 42″ touch display. Supporting up to 10 touch points, the DT-S42FD uses Planar Scatter Detection technology, registering touches from gloved hands. (that sounds very much like the FlatFrog technology under a different name! – TA) Front glass is flush to the bezel, and the display uses an in-glass … Read more
Will.i.am launched a ‘smart cuff’ last year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 42), and has now worked with fashion brand Gucci to develop another. The smartband, like Will.i.am’s Puls, is a standalone product that will not need a connection to a phone to operate. It has a 3G connection and voice control, as well as … Read more
Samsung Electronics in Germany has appointed Mike Henkelmann as the new head of marketing for AV. Henkelmann has worked for Samsung for more than 10 years and in his new position will be responsible for all marketing activities for TV and audio products.
Geneva-based Frederique Constant has unveiled a smartwatch with Swiss mechanisms and an analogue face. The Horological Smartwatch uses the MotionX platform, developed by Fullpower. MotionX is described as ‘tightly coupled firmware, smartphone applications and cloud infrastructure’. It can be used to, for example, build apps – it is the underlying technology behind the award-winning Nike+ … Read more
Vector’s smartwatch, which got significant coverage recently for the claimed 30-day battery life (Vector Claims Month-Long Battery), has been unveiled at Baselworld. The watch achieves its long life using a monochrome memory LCD display (possibly from Sharp? Man. Ed. see Sharp Can Supply Memory LCD) and a custom low-power operating system, with less functionality than … Read more
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