June 2012 – We met with the CEO and the VP of Design at Fanny Wang headphones at their design office in the SF Bay Area. The visit was to highlight their new 3000 series active noise cancelling headphone product. The design uses standard commercially available semiconductors and electrical components with a high efficiency and [...]
June 2012 – We recently had a chance to meet with and see some of the new display and video technology from Silicon Image. Their technology shipped around 50M devices in 2011 and are projecting 100M devices in 2012 from manufacturers like Samsung, LG, Sharp and Toshiba in addition to being part of new marketplace [...]
June 2012 – ARM recently presented an update on their MALI GPU platform, which is targeting the estimated 4B devices utilizing graphics engines by 2016. The GPU is addressing the visual computing market with has been tasked at improving the QOE (quality of experience) of the user, while consuming digital content. The prevalence of graphics [...]
une 15, 2012, Infocomm, Las Vegas—We talked with MultiTouch about their input devices and applications enabled by their controllers. They use IR pens as generic input devices for some applications. Other applications are touch enabled and their software is multi-touch enabled to allow an unlimited number of people using the interface at any time. The [...]
June 14, 2012, Infocomm, Las Vegas—We talked with Epson about the various projector lines they are introducing. The product lines span the range from large corporate systems, to interactive projection systems, and finally to heads-up displays. For more details on these products, see www.Epson.com The portable projectors are getting smaller and brighter. The latest business [...]
June 15, 2012, Infocomm, Las Vegas—We talked with Casio about their new projector lines. The professional projectors are all lamp free, they are illuminated with a hybrid laser and LED light sources with up to 3500 lumen output. The values of replacing the projection lamps with lasers and LEDs are the longer lifetimes, lower power [...]
June 14, 2012, Infocomm, Las Vegas—We met with Jim Noeker of Panasonic to view their latest information display products. The company produces many sizes and styles of displays, electronic signage, and projectors. Detailed information on all new Panasonic products introduced at InfoComm 2012 can be found on the company’s InfoComm microsite: http://www.panasonic.com/infocomm. Although the primary [...]
June 15, 2012, Infocomm, Las Vegas—We talked with Philips about their multiple offerings. They are focusing on commercial signage and hospitality functions in their displays. One new product a converter for glasses-free 3-D conversion. The 42- and 55-inch displays have built-in real-time conversion software that generates from 5 to 28 view points for a wide [...]
June 15, 2012, Infocomm, Las Vegas—We talked with LG about their gamut of products. The various product lines include media players, displays, monitors, and video conferencing systems. The major introductions were for a transparent display, outdoor displays, and updates to the TV and sign combination displays. The transparent display provides a “see-through” experience for signage-enabled [...]
June 15, 2012, Infocomm, Las Vegas—We talked with IOGear about the many adapters and interface products they produce. They tend to migrate between commercial and consumer types of products, and most are fairly simple function units. Among the many products are 4-port and 8-port VGA CAT5 audio-video splitters, USB 3.0 hubs, multi-card readers, and 5-port [...]
