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To combat rising obesity levels in Mexico, officials in Mexico City are offering free tickets on the metro trains to passengers who indulge in some light exercise. Thirty ‘health stations’ have been installed at 15 subway platforms, which will dispense a ticket for a free ride to people who perform 10 squats. Each station has … Read more
LG has announced a new DLP LED projector in the Mini Beam Pro series: the PF1500. Mini Beam Pro is the top end of the company’s portable range; the projector has 1,400 lumens of brightness and 1920 x 1080 resolution. Some of the features on the PF1500 are usually not found on portable models, such … Read more
The BBC has opened its innovation labs up to the public – sort of – in the form of a website called BBC Taster (http://tinyurl.com/nc73f46). Users can visit the site and see what the organisation is working on before the services are rolled out. Some of the current crop includes 360° TV and IP production, … Read more
Universal Display (UDC) and LG Display (LGD) have signed a new OLED technology license agreement and supplemental material purchase agreement which both run through until the end of December 2022. Under the terms of the agreement, UDC has granted LGD non-exclusive rights under UDC’s patents to manufacture and sell OLED display products. For its part, … Read more
Taiwan’s Photonics Industry & Technology Development Association (PIDA) has said that the value of global display module output reached about $82.6 billion last year. The figure was a 5% YoY increase, from just under $78.9 billion the year before. PIDA believes that display module output value will rise another 5% in 2015, reaching $86.6 billion. The … Read more
At a supply chain conference in January, Acer CEO Jason Chen said that the company will continue to look for business opportunities in the smartphone market. The smartphone business is not profitable for Acer yet, and the company was approached by ‘a high-end smartphone vendor’ to discuss an acquisition – but Chen said that, while … Read more
There will be more than a quarter of a billion connected cars on the road by 2020, making them a major element in the Internet of Things, says Gartner. The IoT will grow 30% this year, to 4.9 billion connected devices. By 2020, that number will reach 25 billion. “The increased consumption and creation of digital … Read more
US retailers said that the Super Bowl was helping them to sell UltraHD TVs before the event – despite no broadcaster transmitting in the format. Best Buy’s TV sales volumes were up 2.6% YoY over Christmas, and Target experienced a double-digit lift in its sales over the same period. Brian Markwalter, of the CEA, said … Read more
TCO Certified, with Hyundai IBT, has cancelled a certificate granted to Hyundai’s P227D 21.5″ LCD monitor. The monitor was certified as compliant with TCO Certified Displays 6 in October 2013, at which point Hyundai had a 12-month grace period to prove compliance. The company has not done so and so TCO has withdrawn the certificate. … Read more
The International Chemical Secretariat, Chemsec, has left the European Commission working group charged with updating the list of banned substances in the Restriction of Hazardous Substances directive (RoHS) in electronics. Chemsec said that it left the group due to a disagreement on whether to phase out brominated and chlorinated flame retardants and PVC (Chemsec favoured not phasing them … Read more
We have been reporting diligently on every new virtual reality device being developed, but we have had less to report on content for such devices. Nurulize is developing virtual realities that can be experienced by wearing a virtual reality headset. So far the US-based company has been developing two realities, Rise VR and Desert Home. … Read more
Continental, the German based automotive supplier, has shown a curved AMOLED display for in-car use as the main information display. The news was published first by OLED-Info.com and hints at either an LG or Samsung panel as possible sources. (This seems to be a good guess for the moment.) The following image shows what the … Read more
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