Vol 21 – Issue 44 – Page 11

Apple Warranties Become More Even-Handed

by Raverstead

Analysing Apple data over the last 11 years, 369 Week has concluded that the company is ‘giving its customers a break’. Apple is paying more 369 claims and keeping extended 369 prices steady, resulting …

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Barco Clarifies Uniti Design Brief

by Raverstead

We recently reported on the new Coronis Uniti diagnostic monitor from Barco (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 42). The monitor is a colour unit that has high resolution (4200 x 2800) and very high …

Fujitsu Result 31/10/2014

by Raverstead

Fujitsu Limited reported a second quarter net profit of ¥17.2 billion ($150.1 million), ¥6.5 billion ($56.7 million) lower than the second quarter of last year. Turnover for the quarter was ¥1.1 trillion ($9.6 billion), …

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NEC Calibrates With Light Illusion

by Raverstead

NEC Display Solutions of America has entered into a collaboration with UK-based Light Illusion. The aim of the work is to enable native calibration for NEC’s colour-critical monitors, through the Lightspace CMS display calibration …

SEL Exceeds 1,000ppi With OLED

by Raverstead

Semiconductor Energy Laboratory showed two new OLED displays at Display Innovations 2014 in Japan last month. The first was a 2.8″ colour unit with 2560 x 1440 resolution – 1,049ppi! A c-axis aligned oxide …

uBeam Secures $10 Million Funding

by Raverstead

Los Angeles-based start-up uBeam, has secured $10 million in Series A funding to take its wireless charging system to market. The technology has been in development for three years by company founder, Meredith Perry, …

Assessing 3D Stereo Comfort using an EEG

by Helen Vince

3D – Ever since the advent of 3D technologies, researchers have been investigating the psychological and physiological effects on users of viewing stereoscopic imagery. The general impression that I have obtained from reading many such …

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Balancing Charge Extends Quantum Dot Efficiencies

by Helen Vince

Technology – Chinese researchers have taken quantum dot (QD) LEDs above 20% external quantum efficiency (EQE) – thought to be the technology’s theoretical maximum – for the first time. By adding an insulator layer to …

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Touch Gesture Motion Points Way to New User Interfaces

by Helen Vince

User Interface – The tenth edition of the Touch Gesture Motion Conference organized by Mark Fihn in co-operation with IHS was held October 28-30, 2014 in Austin, Texas. Unlike some similarly themed prior events, this year’s TGM event provided …

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Pallas Extends Image With Bezel-Mounted LEDs

by Helen Vince

Digital Signage – A 3×1 vertical videowall has been designed, built and installed by Pallas LCD in Plaza Premium’s departure lounge in Heathrow’s Terminal 2A. Although LCD technology was used, the videowall appears to be …

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Pen Input Matures

by Helen Vince

User interface – At the Touch Gesture Motion Conference held October 28-30, 2014 in Austin, Texas, Rick Seger of N-trig presented a Pen Input Tutorial on Tuesday October 28 as well as a presentation entitled Beyond Touch on Wednesday October 29. …

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The Acquisition of HDR Content with CMOS Sensors

by Helen Vince

Camera/Camcorder – 4K resolution or more, wide color gamut (WCG) and high frame rates (HFR) are only some of the issues for a camera to acquire the next generation of images – high dynamic range …

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