Vol 22 – Issue 13 – Page 4

Digital Anarchy Speeds Digital Makeup Application

by Tom Allen

Digital Anarchy is an after-effects company, with software that digitally ‘touches up’ peoples’ faces in photographs. The company also has a version for video, Beauty Box Video, with real-time skin retouching and digital makeup …

Tags:Graphics Software| Large Display Monitor| Post Production| Software| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Connected Health and Fitness Will Rise 500% to 2019

by Tom Allen

According to Juniper Research, worldwide revenues from connected healthcare and fitness services will approach $2 billion by 2019 – a 525% rise from this year’s estimated $320 million. Juniper also found that smart wireless …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 13| Wearable Market| Worldwide

Nanoco Warns Against Cadmium QDs

by Tom Allen

Michael Edelman, CEO of cadmium-free quantum dots producer Nanoco, has criticised the European Commission’s decision to grant a Restriction on Hazardous Substances (RoHS) exemption to cadmium-containing QDs (EC Affirms Environmental Benefit of Cadmium-Based Quantum …

TD Maverick Makes Three Appointments

by Helen Vince

UK AV specialist TD Maverick has announced three new appointments. Shaun Elliott has been hired as sales director to oversee the company’s future growth, while Simon Millidge joins as education channel manager. TD Maverick …

OLED-Info Publishes Transparent OLED Report

by Tom Allen

OLED-Info has published a new research report on the transparent OLED market. It details the advantages and properties of transparent OLED displays and lighting, as well as the challenges facing such products and market …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Transparent Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Toshiba Hires Digital Signage Manager from LG

by Helen Vince

Toshiba Germany has named René Klos as the company’s new business development manager for B2B sales of digital signage displays, covering Germany, Austria and the Benelux region. Klos joins Toshiba from LG Electronics Germany …

JCDecaux Begins Green Bus Shelter Rollout in Paris

by Tom Allen

JCDecaux subsidiary Sopact has installed the first of 2,000 new bus shelters in Paris (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 3); work is expected to continue until the summer. Around 100 of the shelters will …

Exceet Claims Inexpensive Gesture Recognition

by Tom Allen

Exceet Electronics GmbH claims to have developed a way to implement gesture control, without using cameras. The system is based on electronic field lines, and their modification through gestures. It can be installed in …

Tags:3D Depth Cameras| Gesture Recognition| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Advantech Claims Space Saving With Open-Frame

by Tom Allen

Advantech has introduced the IDS-3121W, a widescreen open frame monitor with five-wire resistive touch. The monitor can be installed in a cabinet with a custom face plate. A 20% space saving is claimed over …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Leak Shows ‘Bezel-Less’ Oppo Phone

by Tom Allen

Chinese manufacturer Oppo has – apparently – made the bezels on its upcoming smartphone thinner than any we have seen before. So much so that ‘seen’ is a bit of a misnomer! Various websites …

Tags:China| Mobile Display Monitor| Narrow Bezels| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 13

ASO Begins in Serbia

by Tom Allen

Serbia has begun its analogue switch-off, starting in the town of Vrsac. The country’s DTT network currently reaches 93.6% of the population; the head of the national broadcast operator Emisiona Tehnika i Veze believes …

Tags:ASO (Analogue Switch Off)| Large Display Monitor| Serbia| Vol 22 - Issue 13

China Manufacturing Slowdown as Woe’s Deepen

by Steve Sechrist

Source: HSBC China PMI Preliminary Report, Final numbers due April 1, 2015Preliminary numbers from the HSBC China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), a popular industry composite index tool used to track China’s manufacturing might, …

Tags:China| Manufacturing| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 13