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And Finally…. Virgin’s trainers

by Bob Raikes

Virgin America decided to try to recreate the “experience of first class flight” with a pair of trainers including a miniature screen for ‘in shoe entertainment”. Only one pair of the trainers (size 42/8) …

Tags:Aviation| Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 42

Floating Pixels Developed in the UK

by Bob Raikes

Groups from the Universities of Sussex and Bristol have developed a display that uses ultrasound acoustics to suspend physical pixels in mid-air while using electrostatic force to rotate the pixel to show different colours. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Novel Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 42| Volumetric Displays

Ingram Micro Promotes Defrance

by Yvette Raikes

Christophe Defrance has been promoted to Managing Director of Ingram Micro. He succeeds Sophie Deleval who has returned to France. Defrance was previously the sales director. He has many years of experience in ICT …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| People| Recruitment & Appointments| Vol 23 - Issue 42

FandangoNOW app comes to Android TV

by Bob Raikes

The FandangoNow OTT video service in the US is now available on Android TV and with a catalogue of 40,000 shows. The service was originally launched as M-Go and is now owned by NBCUniversal …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 42

Kodak Ektra is a Smartphone for Photographers

by Bob Raikes

Bullit Group which licenses the Kodak brand has announced the Ektra smartphone (named after a historic Kodak camera) which is optimised for around for photography. It has a 21 megapixel main camera uses a …

Tags:Europe| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 42

Large LCD to be Flat

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes Research forecast that large flat panel shipments will be broadly flat over the next five years, with a CAGR of 0.3%, growing from 673.37 million to 684.60 million in 2021. LCD TVs are …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 42

Nintendo Switch Teased

by Bob Raikes

Nintendo has announced its next console, which will be called the Nintendo Switch, as it is convertible and can be used at home or on the go. The unit, which is shown in the …

Sony 3D UltraHD Monitors are for Surgery

by Isaac Oburu

Sony has announced the launch of what it claims is the industry’s first medical monitors to combine UltraHD and 3D imaging technologies, delivering high brightness, enhanced resolution and increased depth of field for a …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Medical| Mobile Display Monitor| sony| Vol 23 - Issue 42

Vudu Free Movie Service has Commercials

by Bob Raikes

Vudu, the US service for OTT content that is owned by Walmart, has launched a new service that is based on advertising revenue so that users can watch for free. The service is called …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 23 - Issue 41| Walmart

300 ppi is 50% of Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

IHS said that the the share of displays with 300 pixels per inch (ppi) and higher resolution is 50% of the smartphone display market in 2016, and it will rise to 70% by 2023. …

China to Push Asian SVOD – No Netflix

by Bob Raikes

The Asia Pacific region will have 157.78 million SVOD [subscription video on demand] subscribers by 2021, up from 41.68 million in 2015 and 76.12 million expected by end-2016. The total will be nudging 100 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 23 - Issue 41

Wikitude’s AR Capabilities Come to Atheer

by Bob Raikes

Atheer and Wikitude have teamed up to enable Wikitude’s capabilities, such as image recognition and tracking, on Atheer’s AiR Glasses and AiR Suite. With this integration, Atheer’s AiR Suite™ software platform enables enterprise customers …

Tags:AR/VR| Eyewear| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 41