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Liber8 a Hungarian technology company has been developing a wearable technology accessory based on an electrophoretic E Ink display. The accessory is a bracelet that has the E Ink display mounted in a jewelry frame. The bracelet shows any black and white image that is downloaded to the display. The bracelet’s only function is to … Read more
The Russian Central Research Institute of Precision Machine Building (TsNIITochMash) has said that it has developed a highly flexible display that is able to work even after it has been hit by a bullet. This statement comes from an interview with the director of the institute, Dmitry Semizorov, with the Russian radio station Echo Moscow, … Read more
Thomas Wrede, VP of Reception Systems at satellite operator, SES (pictured), said at a conference on UltraHD held in London during ISE, that he would like to see UltraHD resolution detached from HDR as a next step in broadcasting. While he acknowledged the importance and benefits of other image enhancements such as high dynamic range … Read more
Amazon today announced that Fire TV’s selection is up 5x since its launch in April, with 2015 best-of-CES Sling TV now available for download as well as other popular services and games such as FOX Sports GO, TED, WSJ Live, Crossy Road, and Game of Thrones – A Telltale Games Series. “The growth of apps … Read more
Canalys has released its latest market assessment of the smartband market. The wearable market has many different players and devices already with more set to join later in 2015. Besides the variety of devices and levels of sophistication within the market, there are also several operating systems fighting for market dominance; Android wear, several home … Read more
Microsoft is reported to have acquired Israeli company N-trig, which produces digital pens and chips for touch screens, for approximately $200 million. Microsoft already owns 6.1% of the company and last year signed a deal to integrate N-trig’s digital pen in its Surface Pro 3 tablets. The company employs 190 staff which it said will … Read more
Three researchers at Brigham Young University (BYU) published an article on February 3rd in the on-line version of the Review of Scientific Instruments titled “Frequency division color characterization apparatus for anisotropic leaky mode light modulators.” And why is this of interest to readers of Large Display Monitor? Because, according to Daniel E. Smalley, assistant professor … Read more
The worldwide pay-TV market is expected to grow 5% in 2014, surpassing 924.4 million subscribers. “IPTV is expected to grow a market leading 14% in 2014, followed by satellite TV platform at 7%. The growth rates of cable and terrestrial TV platforms are expected to slow to around 3%,” comments Jake Saunders, VP and Practice … Read more
Panasonic, an industry leader in reliable and innovative mobile computers since 1996, today announced the Toughbook® 54. As the thinnest and lightest semi-rugged laptop in its class, the Toughbook 54 is a highly portable tool for mobile professionals who need durability, power and feature sets beyond what a standard consumer laptop can offer. With a … Read more
The ISE show was something of a triumph. The organisers had over 50,000 pre-registered visitors from all over Europe and the show was busy and very well attended. Although some exhibitors were grumpy about an extension to Friday, others were happy to extend their stay in the city to the weekend. I had several thoughts … Read more
We have corrected the story that we published last week based on some corrections received from the BDA (we removed a reference to a third HDR technology): Large Display Monitor has heard that the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has decided to support high dynamic range (HDR) technologies for the new UltraHD Blu-ray disk format through … Read more
As I write this, ISE has just ended and the Display Monitor team is gearing up to bring you the event report. It is set to be a good one, and hopefully shorter than our CES behemoth! The show this year felt much busier for us than 2014, as we’ve expanded our coverage to new … Read more
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