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Seabear is an Austrian company that is “developing devices that are rugged, waterproof and reliable – for research, professional and recreational diving” and is bringing two new diving-related products to the market. The first is the smartwatch H3 and other is an update to its dive head up display HUDC S1, which is coming soon. … Read more
The European Commission has granted an exemption to the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS 2) Directive for Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) to QD Vision for its cadmium-based quantum dots. The EC stated, ‘Colour-converting LEDs using quantum dots have significant advantages regarding energy efficiency and colour performance… The use of quantum dots in displays has a positive overall … Read more
Chinese company Dasung has gone in a new direction with desktop monitors, creating one using an E Ink display. The Paperlike is powered by USB and intended to act as a portable secondary screen, displaying information that users need to refer back to without refreshing it often, such as charts and graphs (without colour). The … Read more
A survey of TV viewing habits in the UK has been conducted by the BBC, as it considers moving to UltraHD broadcasts. The results showed that only 10% of viewers would benefit from the move, rising to 22.9% if people were able to buy the size of TV that they desired (i.e., a larger one). … Read more
Hisense has moved some of its TV production to Africa (photo: WSJ)Bing Zhang, research director for Greater China at DisplaySearch, has posed the question: is China’s TV industry slowing down (http://tinyurl.com/pwy6yen)? Zhang’s question was prompted by results from two of China’s leading TV makers, Skyworth and TCL. In 2014, Skyworth’s shipments grew just 1% in … Read more
JCDecaux Airports has taken on the contract to operate interior and exterior advertising displays at French airport Golfe de Saint-Tropez. All displays will be newly installed, including a large-format unit visible from the runway. However JCDecaux had no more details to share at the time of writing.
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
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