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Staff at the Gatwick Airport in southeast England had to write flight information on whiteboards for most of the day due to a technical problem with its digital screens. The BBC reports: Vodafone provides the service, and said a damaged fibre cable had… Continue reading Staff At Gatwick Airport Use Whiteboards After Flight Information Screens Fail
Isao writes: It (apparently) has been known that blue light damages eyes and accelerates macular degeneration. A new article on Phys.org may have identified how this happens. It seems that unlike other light colors, blue causes a necessary molecule (re… Continue reading Chemists Discover How Blue Light Speeds Blindness
Samsung Display, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, just introduced a flexible OLED panel that has a transparent plastic cover already attached, emulating the properties of glass but retaining the screen’s innate flexibility. The screen is so durabil… Continue reading Samsung’s ‘Unbreakable’ OLED Display Gets Certified
A couple months ago, Road to VR reported that Google and LG were planning to reveal the “world’s highest-resolution OLED on-glass display” for virtual-reality headsets on May 22nd. Well, that day has arrived and the two companies unveiled that very dis… Continue reading Google and LG Unveil World’s Highest-Resolution OLED On-Glass VR Display
Microsoft is unable to find a software or firmware fix for Surface Pro 4 tablets affected by screen flickering, so it’s launching a replacement program for them. Any Surface Pro 4 units experiencing the problem will be covered for up to three years fro… Continue reading Microsoft To Replace Surface Pro 4 Tablets Affected By Screen Flickering
“After years of phones, laptops, tablets, and TV screens converging on 16:9 as the ‘right’ display shape — allowing video playback without distracting black bars — smartphones have disturbed the universality recently by moving to even more elongated … Continue reading Are Widescreen Laptops Dumb?
Many of you will have experimented with driving displays from your microcontroller projects, and for most people that will mean pretty simple status information for which you’d use standard libraries and not care much about their performance. If however any of you have had the need for quickly-updating graphics such as video or game content, you may have found that simpler software solutions aren’t fast enough. If you are an ESP32 user then, [Louis Beaudoin] may have some good news for you, because he has ported the SmartMatrix library to that platform. We’ve seen his demo in action, and the …read more
rh2600 writes: Four days ago, Apple’s latest macOS 10.13.4 update broke DisplayLink protocol support (perhaps permanently), turning what may be hundreds of thousands of external monitors connected to MacBook Pros via DisplayLink into paperweights. Some… Continue reading Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead
An anonymous reader writes: Last year at SID Display Week 2017, Google’s VP of VR/AR teased a “secret project” that the company was working on — a VR-optimized OLED panel capable of 20 megapixels per eye — which was being undertaken with “one of the … Continue reading Google To Reveal ‘World’s Highest Resolution OLED-On-Glass Display’ For VR Headsets
Mike Murphy reports via Quartz of Samsung’s new top-of-the-line televisions announced at an event in New York today: Samsung’s new QLED line of 4K TVs features a technology the company is calling “Ambient Mode.” Before you mount the TV, you’ll snap a p… Continue reading Samsung’s New TVs Are Almost Invisible