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Slidenjoy is a High-Quality Laptop Screen – Without a Laptop

by Tom Allen

Laptops – they’re designed to be portable, but the trade-off is a lack of screen real estate. Or is it? A new project on Kickstarter – which was funded less than three days after …

Kickstarter Backing proves Consumers’ Desire for Holograms

by Tom Allen

An interactive holographic display has fired imaginations of Kickstarter backers (http://tinyurl.com/nbew7cr), raising more than CAD200,000 ($160,000) for development – more than $120,000 past the original goal, with almost a month still to go at …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Holographic Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 25

iPhone Case Harvests Energy From Radio Waves

by Tom Allen

Nikola Labs, from Ohio, showed a new iPhone case at TechCrunch Disrupt this month, which harvests power to extend battery life. The case ($100) will debut on Kickstarter in June. Radio waves are converted …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Power| Vol 22 - Issue 19

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 18

by Tom Allen

The Apple Watch is now on sale worldwide. Apple has said that the relatively muted and mostly-online launch (Apple Watch Delayed) does not imply anything for future iPhone and iPad launches. Getac has upgraded …

Piccolino Extends Arduino Capabilities

by Tom Allen

World Class Technologies (WCT) has begun a Kickstarter campaign (now well past its funding goal) to develop an OLED display, plus other components, for the Arduino computing platform. Arduino computing boards can be used …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Microdisplays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 22 - Issue 17

Spectral Edge’s HDMI Adapter Compensates for Colour Blindness

by Tom Allen

A UK company called Spectral Edge has announced an HDMI adapter for colour blind TV viewers, called the Eye2TV. The device is meant to make it easier to distinguish between red and green, as …

Tags:Colour Management & Processing| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| HDMI| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 16

VR System from Wearality on Kickstarter

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Wearality Corporation, a Silicon Valley start-up, has started a Kickstarter campaign to raise $100,000 to finance production of its head-mounted Virtual Reality (VR) system called the Wearality Sky. As of April 8th, the company …

Tags:3D display| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 15

VR System Impression Pi Announces Funding Stretch Goal on Kickstarter

by Bob Raikes

Impression Pi, the virtual and augmented reality headset that took Kickstarter by storm last month, has announced a new stretch goal and a referral program. The VR/AR headset has already raised 212% of its …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Virtual Reality

Blu Kickstarter is Cancelled

by Tom Allen

Blu, a high-concept ‘wearable smartphone’ – which would literally curve around the wrist, and uses a 5.3″ flexible OLED display – was due to have its first products shipping in May. This seemed very …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 14| Wearables

Kickstarter Coming for Consumer Holographic Displays

by Tom Allen

A US-based company called Holographic Optical Technologies (HOT) will soon begin a Kickstarter campaign, aiming to bring (static) holographic displays to consumers. HOT’s experience comes from holographic medical displays. It will begin its new …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Holographic Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Impression Pi Boasts Control Through Computer Vision

by Tom Allen

uSens has launched a Kickstarter campaign for an interactive, mobile VR headset called Impression Pi (appropriately launched on Pi Day). The company says that development on hardware is nearly completed. The Kickstarter campaign is …

Meta AR Secures $23 Million in Series A Funding

by Norbert Hildebrand

We have reported before on Meta Augmented Reality as a developer of augmented reality glasses. The California-based company was founded in 2012 and has raised $2 million in its Kickstarter campaign, selling 1,500 AR …