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Canatu and E Ink Work on Wearables

by Tom Allen

Canatu and E Ink are working together to produce flexible touch displays for wearables. The first product, combining a 6.3″ E Ink EPD with Canatu’s One-Plastic (OPS) Touch, will be available in July. The …

BenQ Focuses on Verticals

by Tom Allen

Displays were not a significant focus for BenQ at Computex. The company concentrated on vertical solutions, dividing its stand into four zones: Smart Café, Smart Factory, Smart Health Club and Smart Classroom. Although this …

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Vedavi Provides Hands-On Anatomy – in VR

by Tom Allen

Swiss firm Vedavi is a medical animation studio, working with the University of Zurich to bring VR to students. The VR Human Anatomy software is similar to the zSpace tool, except that it uses …

Panasonic Leaves TV Panel Production

by Tom Allen

Panasonic has decided to stop producing LCD TV panels, due to high competition from firms in China, South Korea and Taiwan. Production at the Himeji plant in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan will cease by the …

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Exertis Extends With Medion

by Tom Allen

Exertis is now distributing smartphones, tablets and notebooks from Germany’s Medion in the UK.

First 17″ Convertible Coming From Dell

by Tom Allen

Dell showed off a convertible PC, the Inspiron 17 7000, which appears to take cues from Lenovo’s Yoga products. It has a 360° hinge and touchscreen as standard. Available in 13″, 15″ and 17″ …

Nokia Withings Acquisition

by Tom Allen

Nokia has closed its acquisition of Withings S.A (Nokia Plans to Acquire Withings), establishing a new Digital Health business unit. The new unit will be led by Cédric Hutchings, formerly CEO of Withings.

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NBC Will Air Olympics in UHD

by Tom Allen

Over a year ago, the IOC said that it did not plan to support UltraHD broadcasts during this summer’s Olympic Games (IOC Has ‘No Plans’ for UltraHD in Rio), as broadcasters had not shown …

Live UHD Delivered Over Satellite

by Tom Allen

Several companies worked together at the CommunicAsia 2016 show, to deliver live HDR UltraHD TV over satellite. The demonstration took place on MEASAT’s stand. It used HEVC-encoded content at 50fps, with 10-bit colour, broadcast …

Tianma Highlights Automotive at SID

by Bob Raikes

Tianma had plenty new to show us, even though we have met up with the firm at CES and MWC already this year. Automotive is a strong area for the firm and the first …

Mitsubishi Adds to its Range

by Bob Raikes

We reported quite a lot of new products from Mitsubishi in our Embedded World report, so we were quite surprised to see how much was new at SID. First, we looked at a 4.3″ …

Canatu Integrates with E Ink

by Bob Raikes

When we met Canatu at CES, the company expressed frustration at the number of design wins that it has achieved, but that which it cannot publicise for contractual reasons. However, at SID, the company …