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Nanolumens Takes on Boston Arena

by Tom Allen

40 of Nanolumens’ Nanoslim displays have been installed in the TD Garden arena in Boston, with more to come as part of a two-year renovation project. The rollout includes the world’s first major installation …

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 …

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ISE is Here

by Tom Allen

A multi-touch best practice guide is to be introduced by 3M (8.F300). The guide will include advice from 3M and its European partners, to show where and how touch technology can be used. A media server …

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.

Daktronics Prepared For Super Bowl

by Tom Allen

Daktronics installed a massive new digital billboard in the University of Phoenix Stadium, ahead of the recent Super Bowl. The billboard, with a 13mm pixel pitch, measured 17.7m x 50m (a total of 2,900m²!) …

Leyard and Dimenco to Develop 108” No-Glasses 3D LED Display

by Chris Chinnock

At InfoComm 2015, look for a giant 108” LED display that is offering no-glasses 3D content.That is the plan according to Dimenco and Leyard Photoelectrics. To get there, Leyard, which claims to be the world’s largest …

Toray Phosphor Sheet Raises LED Brightness

by Tom Allen

Japan’s Nikkei newspaper claims that Toray Industries has developed a phosphor sheet that can raise WLED brightness by 10%, without an increase in input power. The sheet is intended for use with WLEDs formed …

No More Plasma for Samsung, But LED is New Category

by Tom Allen

Samsung’s CES press conference is always elbow-room only. While we managed to secure a seat (through use of aforementioned elbows), cameramen in the aisles severely hampered the ability to take photos! Tim Baxter, president …

Molecular Computing Reveals Difficulty of Blue LEDs

by Tom Allen

Why are blue LEDs so difficult to make? It is a question that has dogged the field since the devices’ commercialisation in the 1990s, and has now been answered by scientists at University College …

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Global LED backlighting production value to fall 10% in 2015, say Taiwan makers

by Vanessa Browning

The value of LED backlighting production will fall by about 10% this year, say Taiwanese LED makers, as TV and tablet production value falls. Both smartphones and TVs will represent about 30% of production …

China Ends LED Subsidies

by Bob Raikes

The Chinese government has stopped offering subsidies and tax incentives to LED epitaxial wafer and chip makers. According to reports from Asia, the subsidies had disrupted market mechanisms (leading to oversupply) and ‘may violate …

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LED-Lit Displays’ Value Falling

by Bob Raikes

LEDinside, a division of Trendforce, has predicted that global production value of LED-backlit tablets and LCD TVs will fall 21.7% and 14.3% YoY, respectively, this year. The products’ production value will be $476 million …

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