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UK Wearable Ownership ‘No Longer Niche’

by Tom Allen

Apple led the UK smartwatch market in Clicked’s dataA study from UK-based Clicked Research has found that wearable ownership in the country has doubled over the last 12 months, with 12% of the UK’s …

Sports Illustrated Goes Virtual

by Tom Allen

Quad/Graphics has included a VR viewer (the Quad Virtual Reality Viewer, or QVR) in about 500,000 select copies of the 2016 Sportswear Illustrated swimsuit issue. The viewer can be used to watch the magazine’s …

Microsoft Improves Wireless Display Adapter

by Isaac Oburu

Last year Microsoft launched a new accessory (Microsoft Works With Miracast) that allowed users to wirelessly display anything from a Miracast-enabled device. The new adaptor is identical, but latency has been reduced. Customers in …

‘Flip’ Through Pages With Active Haptic Feedback

by Tom Allen

Researcher’s from Queen’s University (Canada) have developed a prototype flexible OLED display using ‘active haptic feedback’ – that is, flexing – for control. The 6″ display is a full-colour unit (1280 x 720) from …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Haptics| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 06

4K Blu-ray Discs Already Available

by Isaac Oburu

Best Buy has already started selling the new Blu-ray UltraHD disc format movies, several weeks before the scheduled date in March. CNET claims to have seen the following titles in Best Buy: Chappie, The …

Sony’s Universal Remote Uses Electronic Paper

by Isaac Oburu

Sony has released a universal remote that uses an electronic paper display and can show buttons chosen by the user. The remote is based on a concept called “Huis Remote Controller Huis-100RC.” ¥24.35 million …

Meta Talks About the Next Generation of AR Glasses

by Norbert Hildebrand

Meta has been making AR hardware for quite some time now. They are in this market for an astounding two and a half years (based on the successful Kickstarter campaign closing) as an augmented …

Apple Refuses to Compromise Security

by Tom Allen

Apple has refused a request by the FBI, made following the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino in December, to modify iOS and published an open letter explaining its reasoning. The company writes that it …

Flexible AMOLED Production is Rising

by Tom Allen

Display makers are expanding flexible AMOLED production capacity, to deal with rising demand – largely spurred by the growing popularity of Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge and the Apple Watch. IHS says that such displays …

Toshiba Uses VR to Ease MRI Anxiety

by Norbert Hildebrand

Toshiba Corporation and Toshiba Medical Systems are showcasing a virtual reality solution for the use in MRI machines. Most MRI systems include a narrow tunnel where the user’s head goes leading to anxiety in …

Tobii Result 16/02/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Tobii reported Q4 net profit of SEK 56 million ($6.72 million). Turnover was reported at SEK 287 million ($34.4 million). For the full year, net profit was SEK 140 million ($16.8 million). Turnover for …

Forth Dimension Displays to Present a Paper

by Isaac Oburu

Forth Dimension Displays has announced it will present a paper at this year’s Electronic Displays Conference. The event will be held in Nuremberg, Germany from the 24th – 25th February. The paper is entitled …