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Motorola Goes the Custom Design Route

Motorola has added its Moto 360 smartwatch to the Moto Maker service. Using Moto Maker, customers can customise their watch with different casings, straps and faces. Photo credit: Wired Analyst Comment This might not seem like a big deal, but it is likely to be key to Motorola’s value proposition going forward. The company can … Read more

AMPAS Honours SMPTE Members

Members of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) have received several Scientific and Technical Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Oscars were presented to Larry Hornbeck of Texas Instruments (TI) and David Gray of Dolby Laboratories. Other awards went to Steven Tiffen and Michael Fecik of The … Read more

A Natural Transparent Display

Scientists at MIT and Harvard University may have found the ‘key’ to next-generation augmented reality displays – on the shell of a European mollusc. The blue-rayed limpet is a small shellfish living in kelp beds, primarily in the North Sea. It is distinguished by bright blue dotted lines running in parallel along its shell. The … Read more

Lytro to Shift to Video and Virtual Reality

Lytro, the US-based light field camera company, says it has raised an additional $50 million in a Series C funding round and will use the money to make a strategic change into video and virtual reality. The company’s CEO Jason Rosenthal said that the change in direction would result in the loss of 25-50 jobs, … Read more

Prestigio Goes Dual-SIM

Prestigio’s Muze A3 smartphone is an entry-level/mid-range unit with a large battery. Boasting a 1.3GHz quad-core processor from Mediatek, running Android 4.4, the Muze A3 has a 3,000mAh battery and features dual SIM slots. It has 4GB of memory, expandable to 32GB via micro-SD; users can also access 200GB of free cloud storage, provided by … Read more

A Study of Distance Estimation in Augmented Reality Display Systems

A recent article reports the results of a study to determine the ability of users to estimate distances between real and virtual objects presented by an augmented reality display system. To put this study into context, I think that it is valid to make an analogy to a topic that may be somewhat more familiar. … Read more

Kiosk Group Announces Next Generation of iPad, Android and Windows Kiosks

Kiosk Group, Inc. has revealed the next generation of tablet-based self-service kiosks with its Revolution 16 and Revolution 24 enclosures. The Rev16 and Rev24 have been designed to offer short lead times, low-cost implementation and a massive area for branding. The Rev16 will fit: Any 10″ to 13″-class tablet such as the iPad Air2, 12″ … Read more

Kverve Optics Gets Funding from projectiondesign Founder Jorn Eriksen

Kverve Optics AS is proud to announce that the co-founder of Projectiondesign AS, Mr. Jorn Eriksen, has bought 40% of Kverve Optics AS and that Mr. Eriksen will take the position as the Chairman of the Board. Projectiondesign AS is a manufacturer of a portfolio of high end projectors to the professional world market and … Read more