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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
The latest Windows 10 Technical Preview build has brought the Cortana voice assistant to desktops in Europe. Cortana is able to search for apps, settings and files and conduct web searches. More functionality will be added in the future.
Jabil Circuit Inc. has reported its preliminary second quarter results, posting a net profit of $52 million on turnover of $4.3 billion, which compares with a net loss of $38.7 million on turnover of $3.6 billion in Q2 of the previous year. For the first six months of the year, Jabil’s net profit rose to … Read more
SolidEnergy Systems Corp. (Waltham, MA), a start-up that spun out of MIT in 2012, is using innovative materials to develop an “anode-less” lithium-ion battery technology that allows for the storage of considerably more energy than is possible in current rechargeable batteries. To put the company’s accomplishment into context, SolidEnergy’s prototype claims to store more energy … Read more
NEC Display Solutions Europe is enhancing its award-winning MultiSync®PA Desktop Display Series with SpectraView®II calibration software, so industries such as photography, film post-processing, brand advertising and agency design which all rely on colour accuracy, can more easily benefit from hardware calibration. As well as availability in the PA-SV2 Series, NEC customers can also purchase the … Read more
Microsoft has revealed the specifications of devices that Windows 10 will be able to run on at the Windows Hardware Engineering in China. Windows 10 phones will scale from 3″ to 7.99″, while desktop PCs and tablets running the Professional edition must be 7″+. Consumer models will have to be larger than 8″. This means … Read more
Orange CEO Stéphane Richard has said that the company will launch an UltraHD set-top box next year. At the presentation of Orange’s ‘Essential2020’ strategic plan, Richard said, “4k is not a market one can profit from now, but it is definitely part of Orange’s roadmap by 2016″.
HP says it is on track to split the company into two separate entities in November. The company announced last November its intention to form two new businesses, HP Enterprise which will focus on supplying businesses with software, services, and hardware and which will be led by Meg Whitman, and HP Inc., which will sell … Read more
TV-Film, a Vienna-based company specialising in providing mobile television production services, outside broadcast vehicles and related equipment, has purchased Ikegami HDK-970A and HDK-97A cameras for its Ü6 OB truck. The sale was negotiated by Ikegami’s Austrian dealer, Avisys Electronics GmbH, which is also located in Vienna. “TV-Film’s Technical Director, Thomas Völkl, chose the HDK-970A cameras … Read more
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