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How Electronic Shelf Labels Can Reinvent the Retail Experience

by Elisabeth Davies

Disruption or no disruption, physical stores have a long life ahead of them yet. Although 97% of retailers have admitted that they have been impacted by digital disruption, the high street is still very …

Tags:Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs)| Retail| Vol 24 - Issue 22

NEC IR Touch Display is Competitively Priced

by Bob Raikes

NEC Display in the US has launched the E651-T which has an integrated IR touch screen that can respond to ten touches. Brightness of the FullHD S-PVA LCD display is 400 cd/m² and the …

Tags:Education| Large Display Monitor| NEC| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Exertis to Distribute Promethean AV

by Isaac Oburu

Promethean has appointed broadliner Exertis, which took over Medium, to distribute their AV solutions in the UK.

Pioneer and Konica Minolta JV Established

by Yvette Raikes

The 50:50 joint venture between Konica Minolta (KM) and Pioneer (Konica Minolta and Pioneer Establish Automotive OLED J/V) has now been officially established. Konica Minolta Pioneer OLED will handle the OLED lighting business of …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Lighting| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Oledon Enables 2,250ppi OLEDs – Looks to 3,300ppi

by Bob Raikes

One of the interesting papers that was presented at the SID (37.2 Plane Source Evaporation Techniques for Super Ultra High Resolution Flexible AMOLED) was given by Oledon. In the paper, the Korean company, working …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Moto Z2 Play Due Soon

by Bob Raikes

The Motorola Moto Z2 Play is a new 5.5″ FullHD smartphone that uses an AMOLED display with Gorilla Glass 3. The processor is a Qualcomm MSM8953-Pro Snapdragon 626 octacore unit with an Adreno 506 …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Motorola| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 22

E3 Will Be Shown on YouTube

by Yvette Raikes

E3 2017 takes place in Los Angeles from 13th to 15th June. The event will appear on YouTube in 4K UltraHD and coverage will start on 11th June. Video game technology will naturally feature …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Netflix Will Have 128 million subscribers by 2022

by Yvette Raikes

Subscribers to Netflix will rise by 44% from 2016 to number 128 million in 2022, according to the figures published by Digital TV Research with the number of non-US subscribers outnumbering US subscribers by …

Holokit Brings Cardboard Concept to AR

by Bob Raikes

Amber Garage has created an equivalent to the Google Cardboard for AR and called the HoloKit. The design used folded cardboard with dual mirrors and a semi-transparent fresnel lens to superimpose an image of …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Christie Spyder X80 Boosts UltraHD Support

by Bob Raikes

Christie has a new processor in the Spyder line-up, the Spyder X80 which is claimed to be the only video processor capable of handling 4K at a 60Hz refresh rate on a single channel. …

Tags:Christie| Display Controllers| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 22

ABI Forecasts Wearables in Enterprises

by Bob Raikes

ABI Research has looked at enterprise use of wearable devices such as smartwatches, smart glasses, and wearable scanners by surveying 455 US-based company in nine vertical markets. The company forecasts market growth of 39% …

Tags:Forecasts| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 22| Wearable Market

Epson Formally Increases Moverio Range

by Bob Raikes

At the recent AWE 2017, Epson formally announce two new Moverio family products. The Moverio BT-350 is based on the optics in the BT-300 platform, released last year, and has a new industrial design …

Tags:Epson| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 22| Wearables