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Pantomime Enables Shared VR

by Tom Allen

Before CES, we wrote about a company called Pantomime (AR and VR Due at CES 2016), which claims to add interactivity to VR without using an extra hardware. Thanks to Mark Fihn’s 3rd Dimension …

Tags:Interactive Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Boogie Board Sync: More than Meets the Eye

by Ken Werner

While Kent Displays (Kent, Ohio) – a struggling developer of cholesteric liquid-crystal technology – was converting itself into a successful consumer-products company whose devices are sold under the name Boogie Board, it fell off …

Tags:Cholesteric| Interactive Displays| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 10

Sharp Has Plans for Colour

by Tom Allen

Sharp has pushed two of its large-format products, introduced at ISE (Sharp Enjoying the Big Pad), to market: the 70″ Big Pad PN-70TW3 and 80″ PN-H801. The Big Pad is Sharp’s first interactive (10-point …

InFocus Expands with Products & Acquisitions

by Bob Raikes

InFocus was showing a new 65″ FullHD procap touch system that uses the InFocus “Edge” design and using Cima Nanotech technology (which is not surprising given the JV between Foxconn and Cima and the …

Tags:InFocus| Interactive Displays| ISE 2016| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 06

Toshiba Banks on B2B

by Bob Raikes

Toshiba has been developing its signage business. Although Toshiba’s PC and consumer businesses have been under pressure for the last couple of years, the B2B business is the focus for the future and the …

Smart Focuses on Business Apps

by Bob Raikes

Smart is having a tough year, as CEO Neil Gaydon revealed in his recent earnings conference call. IWBs have slowed and although flat panels are growing, that growth is not as fast as was …

Tags:Interactive Displays| ISE 2016| Large Display Monitor| Smart Technologies Inc| Vol 23 - Issue 06

Sharp Enjoying the Big Pad

by Bob Raikes

Sharp had a number of highlights on its booth at the show. We started by talking about the Big Pad Pro. Sharp has benefited from being one of the only large screen procap-based intelligent …

BenQ Shifts to Laser Phosphor

by Bob Raikes

BenQ showed us a new laser phosphor projector, the LU9235 which is a 1920 x 1200 resolution DLP projector with 6,000 Ansi lumens of output and a promised light source lifetime of 20K hours. …

Samsung Heads for eBoards

by Bob Raikes

Samsung Electronics in the UK held a pre-ISE press briefing. The meeting was at the top of the “Gherkin”, an unusual, but interesting place for this kind of event. Phil Gaut, Director of Displays …

FETC Launches U.S. Ed Tech Conference Season

by Len Scrogan

The US ed tech conference season kicks off at the start of the year with a strong event, the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC 2016), held each year in Orlando, Florida. FETC tends …

iBT Claims High Growth

by Bob Raikes

iBoardTouch (iBT) was showing its full range of 65″ to 98″ interactive displays – the 75″ and 98″ UltraHD models having recently been released. Unusually, the company has a high end 70″ procap system …

Hansol Integrates EMR in One Cable Solution

by Bob Raikes

Hansol was a name we often featured back in the days when the company was in the mainstream monitor business, but withdrew from that market to focus on special displays for games machines etc. …