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What They Say I can’t remember how I got to it, but I was impressed with the Twinkly LED lights for festive trees and decorations. The system uses a smartphone camera to map its RGB LEDs to a grid which can then be used for animations and sophisticated displays. What We Think This is a … Read more
What They Say Mac Rumors spotted a support document from Apple that acknowledges that some ‘ultrawide or super-ultrawide’ displays are not supported at full resolution on Macs with the new M1 chip. The document doesn’t say which resolutions are not supported. Apple said it would support the resolutions in a future Mac OS update. There … Read more
What They Say The Verge reports that the FCC has spotted a model SMG998 from Samsung, believed to be the Galaxy S21 Ultra smartphone in a listing by the FCC. What We Think There has been widespread speculation that the S21 Ultra would feature the S-Pen and we have reported these rumours. The rumours have … Read more
What They Say Protocol published its most popular articles for 2020 and included one that dug into the falure of Daqri, the developer of helmets with augmented reality integrated. In February, the blog spoke to several ex-staff about the company and its rise and fall. The company started by aiming at consumers, then jumped to … Read more
What They Say Blog site Protocol published some of its highlight articles of the year and included one from the COO of Niantic, the developer of the Pokemon Go app. The article was originally published at the end of July and in it, Megan Quinn, the COO, said that she believed that we were then … Read more
What They Say Goertek of China said that it has opened a new global R&D headquarters in Qingdao, China. The firm said that it invests 6%-8% of its revenues in R&D and it has applied for 20,000 patents, with more than 10,000 granted. Upon completion, the headquarters will have a total construction area of more … Read more
Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, announced the Company has entered into a supply agreement for ongoing business with one of the largest general merchandise retailers in the United States, as well as received an initial deployment order for M400 Smart Glasses that has already shipped … Read more
Many of you will be familiar with the song, “The 12 days of Christmas”, so this holiday season I decided to catalog twelve of the displays I encounter most in my daily life with a short anecdote about each. Perhaps, like many of you, our daily lives are spent more and more at a desk … Read more
What They Say Digitimes reported that EnnoStar, a J/V between Epistar and Lextar, belives that 20%-30% of its business will come from miniLED technology this year. The site also reports that Epistar will start making miniLEDs next month after investing around $200 million in upgrading its existing production lines in Taiwan. What We Think The … Read more
As I wrote in my previous article, “Cleaning Things Up II: Technical Hygiene in the Covidian Age”, many of us are now hyperaware (almost to the point of bacillophobia) of cleaning often-used equipment surfaces in the education sector. One educator pleaded for guidance, asking: “Don’t we have any national disinfecting standards to follow?” Standards that … Read more
What They Say DXOMark released more details of the testing procedure for its DXOMark for smartphone displays. What We Think I have used the DXO software for raw conversion of digital photography for some years. The company developed lens-specific corrections that really made a very good job of correcting and improving my images. Because of … Read more
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from this week. Matthew Mancinelli puts 4KUniverse up for sale, wants $75m for 51% The world’s largest projected videogame display World’s first wooden satellite to be launched by Japan in 2023 The world’s largest gaming … Read more
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