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The UK government’s technology strategy board, Innovate UK, has allocated a £210,000 ($319,200) fund to drive innovation in wearable technology. Six winners of a wearables competetion will each receive £35,000 ($53,200). Successful companies will be expected to put their proposed products through trials with Innovate UK’s partners, such as Disney and McLaren, for three months. … Read more
Hannstar Display reported a 24.7% drop in sales for 2014, falling to NT$23.7 billion ($748.2 million). In December, sales of NT$2 billion ($63.1 million) were 1.8% lower than November but 5.2% higher than December 2013. The company’s total panel shipments also declined year on year. Large panel shipments in 2014 fell 33% to 667,000 units, … Read more
Christie has signed a new partnership agreement with Sahara Benelux which will distribute Christie’s range of displays in the Netherlands and Belgium. Sahara Benelux will offer Christie’s full range of products, including flat screens, Brio, MicroTiles, Velvet indoor LEDs and projectors. Christie will be at ISE in Amsterdam in February on booth 1-H50.
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Kent Display sells a unique type of display. With a black background, it is a note taking pad that can replace pen and paper. Some versions allow saving the notes too. AT CES 2015, they introduced the latest version the Boogie Board 8.1 along with a transparent version aimed at children for fun and educational … Read more
E-Ink has launched a new technology aimed at designers and architiects. Not a “display” per se, it is a series of segments that can change color in response to a voltage but bonded to specialty glass to create a unique option for lobbies and other high impact spaces.
ODG (Osterhout Design Group) was in the Sands hallway at CES 2015 showing off its personal eyewear to enthusiastic crowds. This is a self contained tablet in set of personal eyewear. Mainly developed for professional use, the company will soon offer a lower cost consumer version as well.
MHL used CES 2015 to unveil a solution to providing video to an 8K display. Super MHL is a single cable solution that runs at 36 Gbps!
Steve Koenig is the CEA’s director of industry analysis and he presented a talk before the official start of CES. He began his time on-stage by asking which technologies are driving device sales? There are seven devices that dominate spending: smartphones; feature phones; tablets; digital cameras; LCD TVs; mobile PCs; and desktop PCs. Smartphones are … Read more
Hee-Jin Choi and his colleagues from the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) have suggested a new method to show glasses-free 3D (autostereoscopic, or AS3D) on an LCD display. Existing AS3D displays effectively show two frames at once, offset from each other and with half the maximum resolution, to produce the 3D effect. Display … Read more
BenQ‘s MW665 and MX666 DLP projectors (Display Monitor Vol 2 No 22) have been enhanced with NFC functionality, which BenQ calls ‘tapNshow’. The new models (MW665+ and MX666+) are available worldwide now; price varies by country. A new Casio projector called the Core will be launched at BETT (21st – 24th January) in London this … Read more
Two new DVI-over-CAT-X products have been released by Gefen. The DVI ELR (Extra Long Range) Extender over One CAT-5 (EXT-DVI-1CAT5-ELR) can be used to transport DVI signals up to 150m, using HDBaseT technology. Video resolutions can reach 1920 x 1200 and a single CAT-5e or CAT-6 cable is used. The product’s ‘green’ operating mode can … Read more
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