Barco’s Uniti Becomes Edison Finalist
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.
Display Solutions Utilises PSD Touch Technology
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 Works on Smartwatch With Gucci
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 Germany Names AV Marketing Head
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.
Swiss Watch Combines Traditional Mechanisms With Mobile Platform
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 Uses Memory LCD for 30-Day Battery
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
Cortana Arrives in Europe
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 Result 20/03/2015
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 Developing a High Energy Capacity Li-ion Battery
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 Enhances Colour-Accuracy Control with SpectraView II Calibration Software on PA Series Desktop Monitors
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 Shares Windows 10 Hardware Specs
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
High-Res STB Planned by Orange
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″.
