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PPDS Collaborates With Industry Leaders To Bring AI-driven Philips Digital Signage And Analytics Solutions To Retail Market For More Targeted Shopping Experiences

PPDS, the exclusive global provider of Philips professional displays and solutions, is excited to announce a new collaboration with leading hardware and computer vision software providers, Intel, Advantech and Navori Labs, for the creation of the PPDS Intelligent Signage Solution for Retail. Bringing a bundled, trusted and proven solution to system integrators and retailers for … Read more

Amazon Working on Bigger Echo

What They Say Bloomberg’s Power On newsletter, written by Mark Gurman, suggested that Amazon is working on a new Echo device, code-named Hoya, that is designed to be put on a wall and has a 15″ display. The device is expected to be able to run apps for streaming, such as Netflix. The paper said … Read more

macOS beta Reveals New Higher-resolution Screens

What They Say MacRumors reported that there are new entries in the latest beta of macOS Monterey for new resolutions of 3456 x 2234 Retina and 3024 x 1964 Retina (both close to 14:9). Those resolutions are not supported in any current Apple Mac products and there has been speculation that these may be the … Read more

Allegro DVT and Beamr Announce the World’s First Content-Adaptive Silicon IP Video Encoder

Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video processing silicon IPs, and Beamr, the leading developer of content-adaptive video encoding technologies, today announced an integrated solution that combines Beamr’s CABR silicon IP with Allegro’s video encoding IP to create the world’s first content-adaptive silicon IP encoder. Using the integrated solution, ASIC vendors can now create high-performance, … Read more

Links Week Commencing 27th September 2021

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. A School District Successfully Implements Boxlight ProColor in All Classrooms EIZO Releases 6U OpenVPX/SOSA aligned GPGPU Processing Card with Dual NVIDIA Turing RTX GPUs for Sensor and Data-driven … Read more

Kopin Corporation Receives Follow On Order of Silicon Backplane Wafers for 2K x 2K OLED Microdisplays

Kopin® Corporation, a leading developer and provider of high-resolution microdisplays and display subassemblies for consumer, defense, enterprise, industrial and medical products, announced it has received an approximately $850,000 follow-on order for its proprietary Lightning® 2K silicon backplane wafers. “We are proud to receive an additional follow-on order for our proprietary Lightning® 2K silicon backplane wafers,” … Read more

Plastic optical cable promises cheaper, easy alternative to glass

What They Say The Nikkei reported that a team at Keio University has been able to develop a plastic-based optical fibre that might be usable as an alternative to glass fibres. The group claims to have transmitted data at up to 53Gbps without the need for special error correction. The group believes that the material … Read more

Bitkom Reports on German CE & Smartphone Markets

What They Say The German Bitkom trade association forecast CE revenues in the country as reaching €8.96 billion this year. Flat TV is the biggest single sector at €4.07 billion. Smartphone sales value is forecast to reach €10.9 billion with 22.1 million handsets to be sold (the same as 2020), at an average of €495. … Read more

NASA Uses AR on the Space Station

What They Say Republicworld.com reported that NASA is launching an AR tool to help users of the International Space Station to repair and maintain the spacecraft. The system uses Microsoft Hololens headset and allows earth-based technicians to advise. The first test was done in April. What We Think This is a great application, as the … Read more