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HP Uses Cannes to Launch Notebook Updates

by Bob Raikes

HP used the Cannes Film Festival and its association with the creative industries by supplying workstations, to launch new Spectre x2, Envy x360 and Envy laptops. The Spectre x2 is the first HP ‘luxury’ …

Tags:Convertible PCs| HP Inc| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Pen Input| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Panasonic Detachable Toughbook Has Highly Specified Display

by Bob Raikes

Panasonic has added to its Toughbook range by adding the “33” detachable notebook which has a 12″ 2160 x 1440 (3:2) chosen to give more vertical height for reading 8.5″ x 11 (US Letter) …

Tags:High Brightness Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Panasonic| Pen Input| Rugged Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Post CES 2017 Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

We do our best to cover all we should at CES, but it’s always ‘drinking from the firehose’. So here are some items that we missed but saw reported elsewhere, or that for some …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| BlackBerry| CES 2017| Gesture Recognition| Haptics| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pen Input| USI (Universal Stylus Initiative)| Vol 24 - Issue 03

French Start-Up Allows Real Pen & Pencil Input

by Bob Raikes

The Slate is a new drawing system developed by ISKN in Grenoble, France, that uses a special ring that is fitted to a traditional pen or pencil and uses magnetic tracking to digitise the …

Tags:France| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pen Input| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Dell Smart Desk Should be at CES

by Bob Raikes

Dell will introduce a ‘Smart Desk’ concept that will compete with products for content creation such as the Windows Surface Studio and the HP Sprout. The system uses dual displays, one that is flat …

Tags:Dell| Large Display Monitor| Pen Input| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Unipixel Client Wins Microsoft Approval

by Bob Raikes

Unipixel said that a customer, using its touchscreen sensor, has been awarded Pen Digitizer Certification for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 by Microsoft. Unipixel said that the stylus protocol in this device is …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Pen Input| Unipixel| Vol 23 - Issue 45

USI Pushes On

by Bob Raikes

We reported on the Universal Stylus Initiative several times at the beginning of this year around CES and MWC. Now the USI has released the USI 1.0 specification which was developed by a group …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pen Input| Vol 23 - Issue 40

KN1 Microsoft Highlights Importance of Display Interaction

by Bob Raikes

The first of the main SID keynotes was given by Steven Bathiche of Microsoft who said that things had changed a lot since he attended his first SID event in 2001. He keeps coming …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Pen Input| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Scalable Display’s Huddlewall Turnkey Display System

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Scalable Display Technologies is best known for its ScalableDesktop automatic camera-based warp and blend software but they have also started to ship a turnkey display system called Huddlewall, introduced last November at I/ITSEC. At …

Tags:Blend & Warp| Digital Whiteboards| Interactive Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Pen Input| Vol 23 - Issue 17

ViewSonic Adds New Size to Pen Displays

by Tom Allen

ViewSonic has added a new product to its pen display series, which help to digitise paper-based processes such as recording signatures. The new 7″ unit, PD0711, joins the larger PT1080 (launched in September) and …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Pen Input| ViewSonic| Vol 23 - Issue 15

The Active Pen Renaissance

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, along with Apple’s newest (old profile) update to its iPhone 5 series, the company announced last week, a 9.7-inch display version of its iPad Pro line that extends the …

Tags:iPad| Market Data| Pen Input| Vol 23 - Issue 13

CeBIT Round Up

by Bob Raikes

Huawei was keen to make an impression and had a big booth highlighting its capabilities in communications. We spotted a demonstration of an ip camera that supports the H.265 codec that was running 1080P …

Tags:CeBIT 2016| Codecs| Convertible PCs| E Ink| Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs)| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Pen Input| Vol 23 - Issue 10| WiGIG