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Links 6th January 2022

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the last day or so! As you can imagine with the ‘firehose of news’ that is CES, there are a lot this week. SMK Electronics to Showcase New Bluetooth® Low Energy Android™ TV Remote … Read more

Links 7th January 2022

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the last day or so! As you can imagine with the ‘firehose of news’ that is CES, there are a lot this week. MSI Announces 27″ 300 Hz Rapid IPS Mini LED Monitor Black … Read more

Lenovo ThinkVision Large Format Displays Deliver Uncompromised Collaboration

A few weeks before CES 2022, Lenovo™ introduced a new line-up of ThinkVision™ large format displays (LFD) for meeting rooms and education spaces. ThinkVision T86, T75 and T65 offer effective collaboration for in-room and remote people thanks to bright 4K displays, integrated whiteboard software with a comfortable writing experience, built-in speakers, microphones, and a modular … Read more

PC Monitor Volume Saw Its First Contraction Since COVID-19 Lockdowns Began, Signaling A Cooling Market, According to IDC

After five consecutive quarters of year-over-year shipment growth, the global PC monitor market hit an inflection point in the third quarter of 2021 (3Q21), registering the first year-over-year decline in shipments since global lockdowns began in the first quarter of 2020 (1Q20), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Q uarterly PC Monitor Tracker. … Read more

Latency Free Hybrid Events Developed by Fraunhofer

What They Say The 3it Institute in Berlin has worked with three Fraunhofer Institutes (Fraunhofer Fokus, Fraunhofer HHI and Fraunhofer IIS) to develop hybrid live and online music systems to allow musicians to collaborate while being remote and using very low latency communications so that the delays were equivalent to just a few yards in … Read more

Next-Gen Smart Glasses from Mad Gaze are on the Way

Mad Gaze is preparing to offer a new smart glasses product that has been named “Wave.” A video appended to the end of this article demonstrates the Wave smart glasses in operation. The smart glasses are illustrated in the figure below. The Mad Gaze Wave smart glasses. Before discussing the Wave smart glasses product, here … Read more

2022 LG UltraFine OLED Pro Monitors for Creatives Set New Standard for Picture Quality

LG Electronics is once again setting higher expectations for professional-grade display solutions with the announcement of its 2022 LG UltraFineTM OLED Pro monitors (models 32BP95E, 27BP95E). Delivering the advantages of OLED’s self-lit pixels to the desktop, the monitors provide the accurate color reproduction and superb HDR and SDR performance that professional visual effects artists, video … Read more

LG Adds Two More OLED Monitors

What They Say LG has added two more OLED monitors, the 32BP95E and 27BP95E which are both UltraHD units with 99% of DCI P3, 99% of AdobeRGB and DisplayHDR400 True Black certification. They have detachable calibration sensors and hoods. When used with the free-to-download LG Calibration Studio software, the calibration sensor measures the light emitted … Read more

E Ink Announces Itochu Corporation Joins the E Ink ePaper Ecosystem

E Ink, the originator, pioneer, and global commercial leader in digital paper technology, announces that ITOCHU Corporation, a leading global trading company, has joined the E Ink ePaper ecosystem for the expansion of applications using electronic paper in Japan and worldwide. With 400 million Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs) and 130 million eReaders in the market, … Read more

Macroblock Talks Up Virtual Production and MiniLED

Macroblock is always an interesting company to engage with as the firm has a dominant position in the supply of driver chips for LED direct view displays around the world. It also supplies drivers for miniLED backlights. The company held an event online this week and we logged in to see what was new. The … Read more

First Samsung kiosk solution for Europe

What They Say Invidis reported that Samsung’s new kiosk solution, which we saw at the Peerless event in London, is being supported by a French software provider, Intuiface. The firm is enabling fully functional payment modules for the German market. There is a demonstration video here. Invidis points out that the kiosk market is dominated … Read more