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Apple® today updated the 13-inch MacBook Pro® with Retina® display with the all-new Force Touch trackpad, fifth generation Intel Core processors and Intel Iris Graphics 6100, two times faster flash and longer battery life, bringing even more performance and capabilities to our pro customers. Apple also today updated the 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Air® with … Read more
The Eye Tribe showed fruit ninja being played using eye trackingDanish Eye Tracking software company, The Eye Tribe was on the Denmark booth and was showing how its eye-tracking technology could be used in SmartTVs as well as in tablets and smartphones, which it talked about last year. The TV demo showed how content could … Read more
Silicon Image had a booth with several topics as it also housed SiBeam and MHL LLC. Andromium’s dock converts a smartphone into a notebookThe first product that we looked at was a new notebook dock from a new company called Andromium. The company has developed a “guest OS” that sits on top of Android and … Read more
Raon Tech was a new name to us. The company is from Korea and has developed its own LCOS devices that are optimised for near to eye (NTE) applications. The 720P version is 0.5″ and the 1080P version is just 0.55″. The small size is to help with systems integration in NTE applications. VA LCD … Read more
Qualcomm, of course, had a big booth and was showing how its latest processors could be used for depth sensing and two different approaches were being shown – one from Mantis using “structured light” while the SoftKinetic technology used “time of flight”. Qualcomm bought Atheros in 2011 to gain wireless technology, and WiGig developer Wilocity … Read more
Marvell started by showing us the PXA1928 which is the application processor/SoC that is being used in Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone (The Project Ara Smartphone Moves Towards Implementation). The chip is based on the Cortex-A53 Arm design running at 1.5GHz in a quad core configuration and supports LTE radio architecture. Staff told us that … Read more
Lenovo had lots to show us and we had a whistlestop tour of the booth. The Mgo 300 is an entry level 8″ Windows tablet running Windows 8.1 and using an Intel BayTrail processor. It sells for $149 and is said to have a 7 hour battery life. There were a couple of nice tablets, … Read more
In the OLED Display Technology Shoot-out published today, Displaymate Labs said Samsung once again has leapfrogged its generational OLED display performance with its new flagship flexible curved screen Galaxy S6 Edge and Galaxy S6 2.5K QHD smartphone displays. Samsung Galaxy S6 Image Contrast and Intensity Scales closely match the standard Gamma 2.2 scale as illustrated … Read more
Intel was, unsurprisingly, highlighting the Spectre X360 on its booth. The company was also talking about its support of EMBMS and Multicast video which it can support via its 7260 modem platform. It was demonstrating the technology in collaboration with Ericsson’s core network group and had three services and live communications running simultaneously. The main … Read more
We spoke to Imagination Technologies at CES, but the company still managed to have plenty of news at MWC. The first news was support by Imagination of the Vulkan low level API that has been developed by open source organisation, Khronos. (Although more sophisticated APIs such as OpenGL can make programming easier, those that want … Read more
Four new DLP-based projectors have been introduced by Optoma, for the business (W350, X350) and education (W351, X351) markets. They are differentiated by their resolution, brightness and throw ratios, but other features and specifications are the same. Each projector is networkable via RJ45, and is compatible with Crestron, AMX and PJLink systems. Energy-saving is key … Read more
Fujitsu had a prototype HMD for industrial applicationsFujitsu was showing a prototype HMD that is designed for professional augmented reality application. The headset includes a camera as well as a display and the unit is waterproof, dustproof and ruggedised so that it can be used in quite hostile industrial environments. There was a demonstration of … Read more
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