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Hospital Extends Barco Partnership

by Tom Allen

The Al-Hada Military Hospital in Saudi Arabia, a long-term Barco customer, has extended its display fleet with the addition of a Coronis Fusion 6MP diagnostic screen. Barco’s online MediCal QAWeb management service was also …

Tags:Back Panel| Barco| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 06

NASA Installs New Clock for New Generation

by Tom Allen

The old seven-bar clock at the Kennedy Space Centre’s Press Site is arguably a part of history, used in many Apollo launches. Last December, the clock became history, as it was too old to …

Tags:Back Panel| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| LED| Vol 22 - Issue 06

Samsung Joins the Mile High Club

by Tom Allen

Forget seatback screens; Samsung and Australian airline Qantas have launched a trial entertainment service using the former’s Gear VR headset. The headsets will be provided to customers in Sydney and Melbourne International First Lounges, as …

Barco Takes Collaboration to San Diego

by Tom Allen

Barco is showing its videowall products, collaboration software and controllers at Distributech 2015 (stand #1,539). The show takes place in the San Diego Convention Centre from 3rd – 5th February.

XL Video UK Makes Projector Investment

by Tom Allen

XL Video UK has invested £1.2 million ($1.8 million) in 30 new Barco HDX-W14 projectors, including a quantity of Barco’s TLD+ UST lenses. XL Video also spent £250,000 ($377,500) on a range of new DVI matrices …

Feeling Rich? Invest in a Gold-Plated Phone

by Tom Allen

Do friends laugh at your plebeian smartphone? Does it just not fit your power-buying, power-dressing lifestyle? How about getting it gold plated? London-based Goldgenie is a start-up that offers what could be called ‘affordable’ plating. The Blackberry …

Tags:Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 05

DSF Presents Legacy Award to Past Chair

by Vanessa Browning

Kimberly Sarubbi, president of Saddle Rach Digital and recent chairman of the USA’s Digital Signage Federation, is to be presented with the organisation’s fourth Legacy Award. The Award is said to recognise ‘exemplary leadership, …

Tags:Back Panel| Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 05

NEC Tours Across DACH

by Tom Allen

NEC Display Solutions will take a roadshow through the DACH region in March and April. The ‘A World of Visual Experience’ show will begin in Zurich on 4th and 5th March, before moving to …

Forth Receives ISO Accreditation

by Tom Allen

Forth Dimension Displays has received ISO13485 certification for the design and manufacture of LCD microdisplays for medical devices.

Barco Completes Colombian Rollout

by Vanessa Browning

A rollout of more than 150 Barco projectors to Colombian cinema chain Royal Films has been completed. The chain chose several models, including the DP2K-10S and DP2K-32B. More installations are planned in the future …

Tags:Back Panel| Barco| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04

PC Squeezed Into (Literally) Hand-held Form Factor

by Vanessa Browning

A Polish developer, Przemys?aw Strzelczyk, and his team have succeeded in shrinking PC internals down far enough to fit them into a mouse. The Mouse-Box will eventually be a working product, but is currently at …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PCs| Vol 22 - Issue 04

FDA Separates Fitness Trackers From Health Products

by Vanessa Browning

The USA’s Food and Drug Administration has issued draft guidance (http://tinyurl.com/q24e7qn) on rules to follow for vendors to get wearable devices classified as ‘general wellness’ products (i.e. not a device for treating specific medical …

Tags:Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Wearables