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E Ink and RICOH Launch World’s Thinnest and Lightest Digital White Board

by Bob Raikes

What They Say E Ink said that Ricoh has developed a ‘digital white board’ based on the EPD display technology. The unit is 42″ in diagonal and is just 14.5mm thick and weighs 5.9kg. …

Tags:E Ink| Interactive Displays| Japan

Giant anamorphic ‘3D’ LED cat turns heads in Tokyo

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A giant “3D looking” cat, using a curved 154.7 m² 6mm pitch LED display with 4K resolution has been shown in Tokyo. A short test was shown on Twitter, but the …

Tags:Japan| Outdoor Displays| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP

Innovation Economics in the Display Industry: Impact on Future Groupings

by Ian Hendy

This article aims to summarise my SID 2021 business conference talk, on an area of thought that fascinates me: the role of the economics of display innovation and the role of innovation leadership in …

Hibino partners with ROE Visual for Virtual Production Studio in Japan

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LED supplier ROE Visiual said that it would work with Hibino Corp. to develop virtual production technology. Hibino’s studio will use Ruby RB1.5F LED panels in a 12m x 4m configuration. …

Tags:Japan| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Virtual Sets

IMax to triple Japanese screens

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In an interview with Bloomberg, the CEO of IMax said that it expects a strong rebound after the pandemic in Japan and plans to almost triple (from 39 now to 100) …

Tags:Barco| Cinema going| IMAX| Japan| PLF (Premium Large Format) Cinema

Dr. Isamu Akasaki, 92, Dies

by Bob Raikes

Isamu Akasaki in 2014 (cropped from Image source)What They Say On the 1st April, Professor. Isamu Akasaki, the Nobel Prize winning developer of blue LEDs, died in Nagoya Japan. He was 92. He won …

Tags:Awards| Japan| LED

Neonode Touch Sensor Modules Selected for Contactless Retail Self-Checkout Kiosk Rollout in Japan

by Artem Alekseenko

Neonode Inc. is pleased to announce that Japan Aerospace Corporation, a Neonode value-added reseller, has been selected by a major Japanese retail chain to retrofit the chain’s self-checkout kiosks with Neonode contactless touch technology. …

Tags:Japan| Kiosks| Sensors

Renesas to resume full production next month

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reports that Renesas said that it had now made a “cautious restart to output” at its factory in Naka, Japan, that had been damaged by a fire in March. Renesas …

Tags:Japan| Production| Renesas| Semiconductors

A New Headset is about to Debut from JVC

by Arthur Berman

JVC Kenwood has announced the upcoming availability of the company’s enterprise focused, extended reality headset, the HMD-VS1W. The headset is intended to be connected to and operate in conjunction with an external computer. A …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Japan| JVC| Mixed Reality

Back-seat driver: How Honda stole the lead in autonomous cars

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reports that Honda will release a ‘Traffic Jam Pilot’ in its flagship Legend model in March this year – a move up to Level 3 automation, whereas Tesla’s AutoPilot and …

Tags:Automotive| Japan

Sharp, TiVo Extend Deal in Japan

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Tivo announced that it has extended its deal with Sharp Corp in Japan to use Tivo’s G-Guide products, including G-Guide HTML, G-Guide xD and remote schedule recording service across compatible television …

Tags:Japan| sharp| Tivo

Renesas Factory Disturbed by Earthquake

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reports that an earthquake in Fukushima, Japan, over the weekend has caused some disruption to a factory in Naka, Ibaraki, belonging to Renesas after power supplies were interrupted. The site …

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