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Cameras for BYOD

Camera/Camcorder – At the recent Pepcom event on September 29, I saw several small cameras that were targeting the Bring Your Own Display (BYOD) market, where the display in question was a mobile smartphone or tablet display. VSN Mobile (Fort Lauderdale, FL) was showing its camera, the V.360°, that will produce a 360° panoramic image from a single 16MP … Read more

4K is Making Progress in Reaching the Consumer

4K – These days reporting on the display and CE markets must include some news on UHD/4K to be up-to-date. So, here is our update. FlatpanelsHD and 4K News and Reviews are taking a stab at how the consumer can actually watch 4K today. While 4K News and Reviews reports on the 4K shows that … Read more

Next Q Features Canadian Technology Start-Ups in New York

New Technology – Next Q recently held a press event for Canadian technology start-up companies in New York City. The event took place in the LED Lab, a permanent installation from Float 4. There were some interesting aspects affecting the display industry and markets, which are summarized below. Float4 The company is focused on the … Read more

Learning about 3D (Part 2)

3D in Education – In last month’s article, Learning about 3D (1), we explored one of Google’s free resources for learning about 3D – Google Trends. In this article, we continue our efforts by diving into Google Books Ngram Viewer. Both of these free online resources may be, in fact, enormously useful beyond the bounds of … Read more

Lenovo Adds New Horizon Touch Computers

Lenovo Horizon 2e and 2s

Monitors/All-in-Ones – At the Pepcom Event on September 29th, I had a chance to talk to Lenovo about its two new all-in-one touch screen computers that had been introduced earlier in the month at IFA. Both computers are unabashedly targeting the home market, not professional applications. These units are ‘little brothers’ compared to the Lenovo … Read more

Thales Upgrades Tiger Simulator with Barco F35 Projectors

Tiger Helicopter operated by the Australian Army

Tiger Helicopter operated by the Australian Army Professional Projectors – On September 5th, The Thales Group (Neuilly sur Seine, France) announced that it had successfully delivered a significant upgrade to the Australian Tiger helicopter simulator using Barco F35 projectors. The improvements to the full flight mission simulator’s (FFMS) visual display system (VDS) mean the Australian … Read more

NFC World Congress, Apple Advance NFC

NFC World Congress Banner

Mobile Displays – While Apple has received a lot of press for its introduction of near field communications (NFC) in the iPhone 6, this is not the only NFC news worth hearing. The NFC World Congress has just ended in Marseille, France, an annual trade show for the NFC industry. The exhibition at the NFC … Read more

The Planned Portal Smartphone is both Flexible and Wearable

Smartphone – The goal of the team at Arubixs (San Francisco, CA) is to “create a device that combines advanced smartphone technology with the convenience and mobility of smart watches and fitness trackers”. The device that the company proposes to develop is called Portal. This Android based smartphone is envisioned to be flexible, water resistant, shatterproof … Read more

Gaming Monitors that Don’t Tear or Stutter

Professional Monitors – At PEPCOM’s Holiday Spectacular, a press-and-analysts-only show held on September 29 at the Metropolitan Pavilion on New York City’s West Side, I came across the new ASUS PG278Q 2560 x 1440 gaming monitor. In discussing the monitor with ASUS personnel, and then with Nvidia’s Bryan Del Rizzo, I learned things about the way … Read more

Altera Shows how FPGAs can Deliver 4K Video over HDMI 2.0 or 12G SDI

HDMI 2.0 table

Connectivity – There are lots of ways to deliver UltraHD video, but each solution has its own limitations and/or idiosyncrasies. In the home and some professional AV installations, HDMI 2.0 is emerging as the next generation solution for UltraHD. In the broadcast market, 12G solutions are being shown for those who want to stick with … Read more