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The first rumours of the Galaxy S6 have begun to appear. According to Sammobile, the phone is code-named Project Zero. While the screen size has not been leaked, the display resolution will apparently be 2560 x 1440. The source says that Samsung is still deciding between a 16MP and 20MP camera, though feels that a … Read more
ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) from South Korea says it has licensed a new flexible display and backplane technology to start-up company FlexUP Technologies Corp. ITRI developed this new flexible backplane technology in support of flexible display development. ITRI described the FlexUP Technolgy in a 2011 paper submitted to the SID Information Display (http://tinyurl.com/naw8oar). ITRI … Read more
A prototype camera is under development at Jaunt Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) that can record 360 degree stereoscopic imagery. The prototype uses 14 high definition, 60 fps GoPro cameras to make left and right eye spherical stereo images. One of the challenges in creating such a panoramic image is to stitch the images together matching … Read more
JCDecaux SA has released its quarterly trading update for Q3. The company’s turnover in the quarter rose 6% year on year to €669.3 million from €631.6 million in the third quarter of last year. For the nine month period, the company’s revenue was 4.2% higher at €1.9 billion from €1.8 billion.
JCDecaux’s massive (120m²) Waterloo Motion digital billboard, in London, has won DailyDOOH’s Best Original Digital Billboard award for 2014. The company also took second and third place, with the Trafford Arch and Heathrow GrandView locations.
A US startup called Keyssa has developed its own solution to transfer data wirelessly. The solution is based around a new chip using high-frequency (60GHz) radiowaves to transfer data quickly between devices that are physically touching (‘Kiss Connectivity’). Keyssa envisions its chips replacing physical (wired) connectors on all sorts of devices, including smartphones, laptops and … Read more
Henrik Köhler has been named as the new managing director of TP Vision for Germany, Austria and Switzerland from 1st January 2015. Köhler worked for Philips DACH for 20 years until 2013, as managing director and head of sales for consumer electronics.
The Korean government will put more than double the money towards OLEDs and flexible displays in 2015 than it did this year. The Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology has announced a KRW12.5 billion ($11.2 million) budget for display R&D. There will be nine subjects covered by the new R&D budget. ‘Development of core technology’, … Read more
India’s KSS has entered the high resolution space with a Sony deal. KSS aims to install 3,000 DCI-4k cinema screens over the next 2-3 years. Over the next 18 months, it will invest INR1.5 billion ($24.4 million) in the purchase of 270 projectors.
Ever drop your phone and wonder why the cover glass survived or broke? Corning did too and in our exclusive tour of their facility in Corning New York, we visited several labs where the company explained all about how the glass breaks, ways to evaluate the mechanisms and the results for its newly developed Gorilla … Read more
Asian sources say that Microsoft is developing a larger Surface tablet, with a diagonal of between 13″ and 14″. Reports claim that the decision was taken based on an improvement in sales of the Surface Pro 3, which at 12″ was larger than the 10.1″ of the preceding models. In its recent 345s (Display Monitor … Read more
Microsoft has dropped the Nokia branding from its Lumia smartphones, and now images of the first ‘Microsoft Lumia’ handset have appeared online. Posted on Chinese social network Weibo, the images show a device referred to as the RM-1090. It has, apparently, passed MIIT certification for distribution in China. The design is very similar to the … Read more
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