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Thomson Reuters has named its top 100 global innovators for 2014. Asian companies led the list, with 46 hailing from the region – including the first Chinese company, Huawei. North America, with 36 entrants, and Europe with 18, followed. Among the named companies were Corning, Apple, Asahi Glass, 3M, Blackberry, Canon, Microsoft, AMD, LG, Samsung … Read more
The Asus Zenbook NX500 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 23), which uses a 3M quantum dot enhancement film, is now on sale. It costs $2,700, but Asus notes that it is a limited edition model. The NX500 is the first notebook ever to use a quantum dot enhancement film (QDEF) from 3M. The QDEF enables … Read more
Asus’ Republic of Gamers’ G751 laptop is a powerful model for gaming-on-the-go. Users can hit dedicated keys to access Steam and one-click gameplay recording, as well as the Asus Sonicmaster and Audiowizard features. Copper heatsinks and dual fans keep the G751 cool – necessary when the Nvidia GeForce GTX970M/980M graphics cards are being used for … Read more
Seventeen of the Japan Institute of Design Promotion’s Good Design Awards have gone to Asus. Winning products include seven notebooks, two tablets, three desktop PCs, a motherboard, a projector, an LCD monitor, an AIO PC and a magnetic tablet cover. The Zenbook UX305 and S1 LED projector were listed among the Good Design Best 100 … Read more
At CCW, a panel of experts discussed the details of the ATSC 3.0 development program – an effort to replace the existing over the air system with a new one that will provide the features and technology to last for another 20 years. And as panelists noted, they are seeing broad and active efforts from … Read more
Flat panel displays are playing an increasingly larger role in car designs. The latest step in this direction is shown by Audi in its latest prototype, Audi Prologue. Audi uses three separate touch enabled OLED displays to transform the complete instrument panel into a touch sensitive area to allow direct interaction between the driver and … Read more
AU Optronics (AUO) saw sales fall 6% sequentially and 1.8% year on year to NT$34.7 billion ($1.1 billion), bringing sales for the year to date to NT$374.5 billion ($12 billion), 2.2% lower than the same period of 2013. The company’s small and medium panel shipments were 17.3% lower month on month at 13.48 million units, … Read more
AU Optronics (AUO) saw increases in both sales and panel shipments in October, achieving revenue of just under NT$37 billion ($1.2 billion) for the month, up by 3.9% month on month and 9.1% year on year. October’s result brought sales for the year to date to NT$339.7 billion ($11.1 billion), down 2.3% from the same … Read more
We recently reported on the new Coronis Uniti diagnostic monitor from Barco (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 42). The monitor is a colour unit that has high resolution (4200 x 2800) and very high brightness – it is rated for calibration at 1,000 cd/m², That struck us as surprisingly bright, so we spoke to Barco … Read more
Barco has signed an agreement to supply 800 digital cinema projectors to China Film Group. Over the next few months, they will be deployed in cinemas across the country. 100 models will be Barco Alchemy integrated projection systems, with a media server pre-installed.
Barco has hit an industry milestone will the roll-out of its DLP cinema projectors. As of Q3’14, 50,000 units have been installed worldwide.
Barco ran its annual Technology Showcase in Westminster this year – the heart of London. To give you a feel for the location, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament were visible from the window! The Technology Showcase is where Barco shows off its newest products; both those that have been launched and those that … Read more
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