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Fraport Goes 4mm at Frankfurt T1

by Tom Allen

The new digital signage at Frankfurt Airport (‘Digital Brand Space’ Opens in Frankfurt) is now open at Terminal 1. Frankfurt Airport operator, Fraport, told us that a total of six LED screens have been …

Tags:Aviation| Digital Signage| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 23

IHS: Connected Devices Pass 8 Billion

by Tom Allen

IHS’s Connected Device Market Monitor shows that there were 8.1 billion connected devices worldwide by the end of 2015. This includes smartphones, tablets, connected TVs (and enabling devices like consoles), PCs and audio products. …

IDC Revises PC Forecast Downward

by Tom Allen

PC shipments will fall 7.3% YoY in 2016, according to an updated forecast from IDC, followed by progressively smaller declines through 2017, and stabilisation in 2018. The new forecast is roughly 2% lower than …

Industry Prepares for OLED Summit

by Tom Allen

Several members of the technology industry will present at the OLEDs 2016 World Summit, it has been announced. The Summit will run from the 20th – 22nd May in San Diego, with discussions focusing …

BBC Moves to VR

by Tom Allen

The BBC is working on producing ‘true VR’ content, and has unveiled its first work in the space. Several of its experiments have been posted to BBC Taster (http://tinyurl.com/jxeqqex). These are differentiated from the …

Tags:Back Panel| BBC| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 23

AOC Takes on Independence Day

by Tom Allen

The sequel to 1996 blockbuster Independence Day – Independence Day: Resurgence – is being sponsored by AOC, as its official monitor partner. AOC screens will be featured in the film, and the company and …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Vol 23 - Issue 23

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 23

by Milos Pavlovic

Asus‘s Designo MX34VQ monitor (Asus is Firmly in Phablets) has a wireless charging pad on the stand, using the Qi standard. Apologies, we missed this when the monitor was announced. BenQ will reveal a …

Lenovo Has Simpler Concept to Challenge Ara

by Tom Allen

Google’s Project Ara was a unique concept when it was first introduced, back in 2014: a modular smartphone, which users could modify to suit their tastes. The battery, camera and even display could all …

Tags:Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Pico Projectors| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 23

Project Tango Coming This Year – With Lenovo

by Tom Allen

Just after meeting with Lenovo at CES 2016, we were told that the company would be producing the first Project Tango smartphone for Google (Lenovo Deluge Led by OLED Notebook). Project Tango is a …

Dutch TV Continues Down

by Milos Pavlovic

The Dutch TV market continued to decline in Q1, says Telecompaper, with connections falling for the fourth straight quarter. Connections were down by 8,000 (0.1%). Although digital TV was up 0.4%, this was not …

A Means to Create 3D Images from Collections of Ordinary Photos

by Arthur Berman

At this time, typical starting actions in the production of a digital 3D model might be the selection of an acquisition device and thinking through the details of the scanning process. The most likely …

Tags:3D Content Creation| 3D software| Vol 23 - Issue 23

3D Camera Computer Uses Color Perception

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it last week, Orbbec Technology Corp of Shenzhen, China showed up at this year’s Display Week with a new 3D camera computer and its focus on 3D Sensing, Artificial Intelligence, …

Tags:3D Cameras| 3D Depth Cameras| Gesture Recognition| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 23