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Apple Pay on iPhone6 with on board NFC chips to complete cashless transaction, Source: Businessinsider.com Update: Apple recently announced its NFC based Apple Pay system will go live with a host of retailers on Monday October 20th. Smartphone – With rumors flying all week, finally a leaked Walgreens memo (fittingly uncovered by MacRumors.com) to its … Read more
Display Components, Materials and Manufacturing – Fused fiber optics have the ability to transfer an image from one surface to another with great clarity. This capability has found use in numerous markets including the gaming machine and video terminal businesses (think Casinos). Now, with the expiration of an exclusive licensing agreement and the advent of … Read more
LCD TV Production by Brand, Source: NPD DisplaySearch LCD TV Market – With the recent boost in annual LCD TV production plans to 48M and 34M units respectively, both Samsung and LG are leading the way to an LCD TV production boom this holiday season. Panel sales are to top 21M units in October, or … Read more
Curved TVs – I remain one of those that is not yet convinced about the need and desirability of curved TVs*. My long-standing friend and image quality maven, Ray Soneira, says that I’m wrong when I say that curved TVs are a gimmick. He says that curved TVs have significant advantages in the suppression of … Read more
Apple iPhone6 Image contrast source DisplayMate Mobile Display – When the iPhone6 first shipped, Dr. Ray Soneira concluded from extensive DisplayMate lab testing in his iPhone6 Technology Shootout that this was perhaps the best mobile LCD made to date. How Apple got there is possibly confirmed by NPD DisplaySearch, as the research company is reporting … Read more
TV – In a recent open letter to Apple’s CEO Tim Cook, investor and billionaire Carl Icahn describes what he expects from Apple. Owning roughly 53 million shares in the company, his number one goal will always be to increase the shareholder value of Apple and his own wealth. Nevertheless, he also looks at other … Read more
Internet of Things – What will we be talking about after wearables are being worn by everyone? Many think it will be the Internet of Things. This term describes the connection of everything in our homes to the internet and our mobile devices. As a simple explanation, you can turn on the lights before entering, … Read more
Digital Cinema – Barco (Kortrijk, Belgium) announced that it has completed the acquisition of IOSONO (Erfurt, Germany), a technology company with expertise in immersive 3D sound. The transaction creates a new company called Barco Audio Technology. Barco also has a partnership with Auro Technologies that has resulted in the commercialization of the Auro 11.1 cinema … Read more
Emerging Technology – Haptic display technology has long been in discussion and solutions have so far fallen short of expectations. In an interview with Dr. Christophe Ramstein, President and CEO of Novasentis we explored how far away haptic displays are from the real world of consumer electronics. Novasentis (formerly Strategic Polymer Sciences, Inc.) is a US based company … Read more
3D in Education – In a previous article, Stereo Symbiosis Needed in the Education Market, I wrote that the growth trajectory of 3D will not accelerate to the degree desired without help from other, complementary technologies. 3D’s plus-one, if you will. “Only by joining 3D together in symbiosis with other enabling technologies will it be … Read more
Broadcast & Distribution – Last week, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Technicolor (formerly Thomson Broadcast) announced the successful deployment of Technicolor’s ATSC 3.0 4K/UltraHD testbed platform, including receiving an over-the-air signal. Based on various MPEG audio, video and transport standards, including Scalable HEVC, MPEG-H audio and MPEG-MMT transport, the Technicolor platform was combined with Sinclair’s experimental … Read more
Interview with Chris Parker of NEC about the new 32″ 4K/UltraHD desktop monitor with an OPS slot to allow SDI inputs
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