WK ‘scorebord’ op de gevel in Amsterdam.

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De Prins Hendrikkade is tijdens dit WK ‘The road to Victory'! Tegenover het Centraal Station kan men dagelijks zien welke teams zich nog steeds op de weg naar de finale begeven. Een vlaggenparade op de gevel van Frans Beekwilder.
Frans Beekwilder, één van Europa's meest toonaangevende business to business bedrijven op het gebied van productpresentaties en sfeerondersteuning, heeft voor het WK haar gevel omgetoverd tot het grootste scorebord van Nederland.

Het scorebord is ruim 26 meter breed en 10 meter hoog. Op 4 grote gevels sieren alle landenvlaggen van de teams die op dat moment nog kans maken op de beker.
Op 11 juli zal het grootste scorebord van Nederland pronken met 32 vlaggen van de laatste twee finalisten.

Springteq toont head up-display

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Het Taiwanese Springteq komt met een head up-display met ingebouwd GPS-systeem. Het apparaat, de WeGo, projecteert navigatie-informatie op ongeveer een meter afstand van de rijder.

Met een head up-display kunnen automobilisten routegegevens bekijken en tegelijkertijd hun blik op de weg behouden. Omdat de WeGo onder meer bestaat uit een afstandsbediening die je op het stuur bevestigt, zo toont een video, hoeven gebruikers hun handen niet van de besturing af te halen. De WeGo krijgt elektrische voeding via de sigarettenaansteker, draait op Windows CE en heeft 2GB flash-geheugen dat uit te breiden is. Springteq ontwikkelde ook een versie met een kleinere resolutie van 320 x 240 pixels. De WeGo komt naar verwachting in het vierde kwartaal van 2010 op de markt.

Sharp claims world's thinnest LCD bezel.

Sharp Corporation has developed a new multi-screen display system that achieves the world’s thinnest System Frame Width of 6.5 mm, the company claims. This new display system will be introduced into the Japanese market in August of this year.
This multi-screen display system is built around the new PN-V601 60V-inch professional LCD monitor, which uses Sharp’s proprietary LCD technology to significantly reduce the width of the monitor’s bezel. The width of the bezels between neighbouring displays is a mere 6.5 mm, making the seams where individual LCD monitors join unobtrusive. This enables practical applications such as single large-screen video wall displays and creates new possibilities in presentation spaces not available using conventional approaches.

Sharp's new LED backlit PN-V601 60-inch LCD monitor features just a 2.4-mm bezel width on the right-side and bottom and 4.1-mm bezel along the left-side and top. The result is a 6.5mm display separation when inserted into a 5x6 matrix of 30 adjoining LCDs as demonstrated at the Sharp product launch.

The 5x6 wall was matched with a further 3x6 floor of the same displays for the purposes of the launch – see video

Retop goes for record with 9,500m² LED.

Shenzhen Retop LED Display Company provided a huge 9,500m² LED screen for the opening ceremony of the Shanghai World Expo.
On May 1, 2010 heads of state and visitors from around the world gathered at the Expo Park to witness the opening of the massive event that incorporates the word’s largest trade fair.

Retop, was the 2010 World Expo LED display official supplier and sponsor, and will enter the display into the Guinness World Records, hoping to be crowned the supplier of the largest LED display.

The huge display worked for around two hours and was designed and erected in just three months.
Retop adopted a net structure, with each cluster connected by flexible cables at a pixel pitch of 150mm, to reduce wind drag. Furthermore the company implemented a specially-designed power chip in each cluster so the power was evenly distributed throughout the long flow. The data connection was also simplified using one cable and snap-fit mounting mode.

iPhoen remote Interaction System - paint a multi-media facade.

"We used Touch Projector to paint on a multimedia facade (here: Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria). Users simply aim their device at the facade causing the viewfinder to show the facade locally. In this local image, users can now draw with the selected color. The building then changes its color accordingly as if users directly painted on it."

Currenty Johannes Schöning works at the Innovative Retail Laboratory of the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbruecken. His research interests include new methods and interfaces to intuitively navigate through spatial information, and ways new intelligent interfaces can help people to solve daily tasks more effectively. Johannes recently completed his Ph.D. at the Saarland University. He runs the multi-touch Google group. (LINK: http://groups.google.de/group/multi-touch) Johannes is involved in a range of interesting professional activities. He's currently looking for new opportunities.

the XO-3, the third-generation of the One Laptop Per Child project.

Hier wat foto's en een video over het mooie ambitieuze project om alle kinderen in deze wereld een scherm te geven.

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Samsung F10M - 1000 Lumen LED.

Samsung has begun promotion and shipping for the world's first 3LCD LED projector.

Samsung and 3LCD teamed earlier this year up to deliver the world's first 3LCD LED projector, the F10M.

Announced originally in January at CES, the F10M is the world's first LED-based projector with 1,000 lumens.

The F10M delivers 1,000 lumens with an announced light life of up to 30,000+ hours and offers XGA resolution and an image size range from 40 – 300 inches, with HDMI input and PC connectivity. Thanks to the LED light source, the F10M offers customers an extremely energy efficient projector option, and what the makers describe as the brightest LED projector in the projection industry.

In addition, the LED-based projector offers instant on/off functionality, requiring almost no warm up time, producing a nearly instantaneous projected image.

Samsung owns 90% of 3D TV market.

Of the estimated 300,000 3D TV sets that have been sold worldwide, 270,000 have been Samsung units, leaving other powerful companies to fight for the remaining scraps.

The sales numbers are being reported by Chosun, a newspaper based in South Korea where Samsung is headquartered. Even before the advent of new stereoscopic 3D TV sets, Samsung was the top seller of flat-panel HDTVs, but that was with an 18% market share in a highly competitive market.

The 3D arena, though, is still largely untapped, and Samsung is the only major player so far. It was the first in the world to launch a TV with the new format, in March, and it has already expanded its lineup with a new series of 3D LED sets.

Samsung is the only company that has been open about its 3D TV sales numbers. Although the only companies have not reported 3D sales, it is likely that Panasonic is in second place. With its focus on plasma sets, it currently offers the cheapest 3D TVs on the market.

LG is the only other company with a 3D set available at the moment, but its sales are estimated to be in the low thousands. Sony and Mitsubishi, among others, are still finalizing their 3D TV release plans.

Toshiba flexes its paper-thin LCD muscle, moves the world.

Bron; www.engadget.com
Toshiba's found an interesting use for flexible LCD technology: user input. At SID 2010, the Japanese display manufacturer showed off an 8.4-inch wide, 0.1mm thick SVGA panel that could be grabbed and physically bent to zoom in or out using Google Earth. While it's a far cry from 6DOF and perhaps not as entertaining as controlling the time-space continuum with forefinger and thumb, the bend sensor seems like an obvious addition to the gamut of crisp, rollable, data storing, energy generating flexible tech already in development. It's also worth noting that Toshiba isn't the only one working on the idea; IBM filed a patent application for "flexible displays as an input device" back in 2006.

HP's New 30" ZR30w Display Can Show Over a Billion Colors.

HP's new ZR30w S-IPS LCD display has a color resolution of 30-bits per pixel, resulting in some 1.07 billion displayable colors. If you're keeping count, that's about 64 times as many as you can see on an average LCD.

The ZR30w has a 2560 x 1600 resolution—over 4 million pixels in all—though it's targeted towards small businesses which means that you're obligated to use that massive resolution for staring at even bigger, even more mind-numbing Excel spreadsheets.

The behemoth display has DisplayPort and DVI-D inputs as well as a 4-port USB hub built-in. The HP ZR30w is available today in the USA for a starting price of U.S. $1,299.
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