Vol 22 – Issue 05 – Page 9

Vestel Celebrates Fatih Success

by Tom Allen

Being heavily involved with Turkey’s Fatih Project, Vestel has seen great success with its 65″ interactive whiteboard (IWB), which is now being billed as ‘The world’s highest-selling 65″ IWB’. The company believes that 430,000 …

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RideOn is Developing Augmented Reality Ski Goggles

by Norbert Hildebrand

RideOn is an Israeli start-up company which is developing an augmented reality headset for sports activities like skiing and snowboarding. RideOn has started a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo seeking a total of $75,000 in …

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Samsung Revamps Tab 4 for Education

by Tom Allen

Last year’s Galaxy Tab 4 tablets (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 14) have been revamped by Samsung to create the Tab 4 Education which was shown at BETT. Developed in partnership with Google, this …

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Dell Cuts Add-Ons For Lower Prices

by Tom Allen

Last year at BETT, Dell showed off its S520 projector solution (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 4), which we first saw at Gitex 2013 (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 41). The S520 is a …

Bett 2015 Roundup

by Tom Allen

BenQ had some new products, but they were in a private area off-booth. They will be launched at ISE (this was a recurring theme at BETT). CTouch had a prototype 65″ display (the Leddura …

Microsoft Shows Off HoloLens Augmented Reality System

by Norbert Hildebrand

During the introduction of Windows 10, Microsoft also announced HoloLens as its take on an augmented reality headset, including several usage models in science, training, design, gaming and general use. The headset looks more …

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Microsoft Announces Surface Hub as a Collaborative Display Tool

by Norbert Hildebrand

Together with the Windows 10 announcement, Microsoft also showed off the Surface Hub – a collaborative display solution. The system is more than just a touch enabled display, as it runs a modified Windows …

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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 …

TriLite to Introduce Steerable Pixels and RGB Laser Modules at Photonics West

by Chris Chinnock

TriLite Technologies (Vienna, Austria) is a start-up that has been working on a unique laser display technology for about four years. Now, the company is ready to tell the world about its inventions. There are …

Smart Takes a Lesson From Boogie Board

by Tom Allen

As well as promoting its extended partnership with Epson (see our roundup), Smart Technologies was showing a variety of new and upcoming products off-stand, in the Platinum Suite at BETT. Last summer, Smart introduced …

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Microsoft Jumps to Windows 10

by Norbert Hildebrand

Microsoft is still “The Standard” for PC operating systems worldwide, even with all the success of Apple’s OSX and Unix platforms in recent years. Microsoft claims that about 1.5 billion people are using Microsoft …

BETT Looks to Software

by Tom Allen

BETT is Europe’s premier trade show for technology in education, with each year seeing a growing international presence. Many of the company representatives whom we talked to at the show remarked on this. The …

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