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What Bob Saw on the Net 11/02/2020

by Bob Raikes

Most days, our editor, Bob, spends some time looking around the net for news. Here are some articles and links that he thought worth sharing… (note that registration or subscriptions may be required!) Here’s …

What Bob Saw Around the Net…. 26/11/2018

by Bob Raikes

UniVet Developing AR Safety Glasses

by Bob Raikes

UniVet Optical Technologies is a maker of safety glasses from Brescia in Italy and has integrated VR technoology into the glasses which it has been developing for 20 years. The company is a Sony …

ODG Announces AR Oxygen Mask

by Norbert Hildebrand

According to the FAA in-flight fires, smoke or fumes are accounting for one unplanned landing per day. In-flight smoke is also number four on the list for fatalities and loss of aircraft. Together with …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Aviation| Health and Safety| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 15

MWC RoundUp Part 2

by Bob Raikes

Mantis Vision was showing a professional system for facial scanning that creates high quality avatars or images for use in access control systems. The images took a couple of minutes to produce, but were …

Digital Projection Shows 8K Projector

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Image shown by the DP Insight Laser 8K Projector. (Credit: M. Brennesholtz) At ISE, the big news from Digital Projection (DP) was the new Insight Laser 8K projector. Strictly speaking, this isn’t an 8K …

RF Shielded Underpants at CES

by Bob Raikes

There are always a few bizarre products at CES. This week we got a release from Spartan Underwear which has developed underwear for men that is claimed to protect the areas covered by the …

Outdoor Play Can Help Prevent Shortsightedness

by Andrew Fenn

The BBC has published an article investigating the effects of long-term, regular use of electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets and games consoles for work or play, on the eyesight of young people. Ophthalmologists …

Tags:Health and Safety| Human Vision| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 01

Smartphones Linked to ‘Transient Blindness’

by Tom Allen

Smartphone use has been tied to temporary blindness by doctors. Two women were affected after checking their phones in the dark. Doctors described the case in the New England Journal of Medicine. Both women, …

Tags:Health and Safety| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 24

OLEDWorks to Prototype Amber OLEDs

by Tom Allen

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) awarded a $500,000 grant to OLEDWorks last year (OLEDWorks Takes Lighting Grant), to develop bright amber OLED lighting panels. NYSERDA has now presented the …

Are LED Backlights Dangerous?

by Bob Raikes

Recently, I got an email, as I’m registered to attend the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, to advise me that an app has been developed that can reduce the level of blue light …

Tags:Blue Light| Health and Safety| LED| Vol 23 - Issue 05

CRT TVs Can be Dangerous

by Tom Allen

To promote National TV Safety Day in the USA, which was held on the 6th February, the CTA and Safe Kids Worldwide released a worrying statistic: a child in the US dies every three …