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Samsung Electronics Showcases Monitor Leadership at CES With Versatile 2022 Lineup

Samsung Electronics announced new models in its monitor lineup that exemplify its leadership within the sector. The versatile new lineup delivers beautiful picture quality and intuitive features that give consumers more choice when selecting a monitor that fits their exact needs. The 2022 monitor portfolio brings out the best experiences while working, gaming or watching … Read more

Colorado Wildfires

Over the holiday, there were devastating fires in Colorado in the US. Very sadly, the high (>100 mph (160 km/h)) winds caused wildfires to devastate residential areas. One of the areas affected was the home of our Education Correspondent, Len Scrogan, pictured below. We hadn’t planned to run a Display Daily today, but in the … Read more

Economist Picks 22 Technologies to Watch

What They Say The Economist identified 22 ‘technologies to watch in 2022’. Only a couple (which we have listed first) involved displays, directly. VR workouts The Metaverse Solar geoengineering Heat pumps Hydrogen-powered planes Direct air capture Vertical farming Container ships with sails Vaccines for HIV and malaria 3D-printed bone implants Flying electric taxis Space tourism … Read more

Somnium Space is Developing a Headset

The “social virtual reality platform company” Somnium Space LTD (London, England)is going into the hardware business. The company explained that “as a decentralized and open Metaverse company we cannot allow Somnium Space to be dependent on hardware gatekeepers to be able to communicate and engage with our users.” To address this issue, the company will … Read more

Google Has a ‘New’ AR Project

What They Say The New York Times ran a general article on the metaverse and AR/VR. In the article, Google is reported to be working on a new AR device after acquiring the firm ‘North’ in 2020. North had bought patents that originated at Intel (the ‘Vaunt’ project (Intel Pulls the Plug on AR Smart … Read more

Looking Back on My Display Daily Year

Like many others, at this time of year, I thought I’d look back and a bit forward to see if I could see any patterns in what I have written over the last year in my nearly 100 Display Daily articles. Some of the topics that I have covered have been related specifically to the … Read more

Tesla Disables Game Mode in Moving Vehicles

What They Say Tesla has agreed to change its Passenger Play feature that previously allowed games to be played on a touchscreen when the car was in motion. The move was made after the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) investigated the feature which did ask for confirmation that the user was not the … Read more

 AV Link will Present New 4K/8K Products at ISE 2022

AV LINK, a pioneering designer and manufacturer of cutting-edge 4K and 8K video processing, will exhibit in booth 5K105, from February 1 to 4 2022, in Barcelona, Spain, at Integrated Systems Europe showing MaitreView™ 8KPro, HS-1614W (8K/60Hz HDMI Distribution Amplifier), HRM-1641W (8K/60Hz HDMI Switcher), and MaitreView™ 4KLite. Other products include MaitreView™ 4KPro, the IPS(4K/60Hz AV … Read more

Panasonic, IBM, BMW and Mercedes-Benz are also canceling

What They Say More companies have dropped out from CES in the last day or two including IBM, Panasonic, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, OnePlus, Proctor & Gamble and AMD. I also heard that Nanosys has dropped back to just a ‘day trip’. IDC cancelled a planned breakfast briefing. I also heard that although Samsung still (at the … Read more

FETC 2022 Preview: What’s Shouting the Loudest

In this article, I outline observations related to key education trends taking shape at FETC 2022 using my typical conference session analysis approach. The ed-tech conference season in the U.S. kicks off at the start of each year with a strong event, the Future of Education Technology Conference, which rotates it venue from Orlando to … Read more

CES 2022: Somalytics to unveil products powered by world’s smallest nano-based capacitive sensor in huge breakthrough for industry

CES 2022: Somalytics to unveil products powered by world’s smallest nano-based capacitive sensor in huge breakthrough for industry New 1mm paper sensor ‘feels’ human presence, creating new genre of gesture-based digital interfaces, wellness monitoring and safety applications SEATTLE and LAS VEGAS, Dec. 29, 2021 — At CES 2022, one of the biggest breakthroughs in consumer … Read more