The NHS Cumbria & Lancashire Cardiac and Stroke Network (CSNLC) is saving the lives of stroke victims by connecting patients with remote doctors in the time-critical early intervention stage of stroke using Polycom RealPresence high-definition video collaboration solutions.
Author: AV News
Promethean unveiled ActivTable at BETT 2012. The ActivTable is aimed towards primary school and special educational needs learners. At 46 inches, the screen provides one of the largest interactive surface areas on the market and allows up to six students to use it at any one time, with room for them to work together.
Lumens DC120 wireless visualiser was selected for a BETT Award from a field of over a hundred entries in the digital device category. The DC120 is said to be the first wireless visualiser in the world and allows teachers to present lectures from anywhere in the room and even to teach outside.
Optoma will make the formal introduction of its hybrid projector at ISE 2012. The new model was previewed at BETT on the TI stand alongside the new BenQ laser model. The sub 3kg Optoma has an expected brightness of 2000 Lumens.
Colin Buechler, formerly senior vice president of sales and marketing, is to take over from Craig Malloy as CEO of LifeSize, a subsidiary of Logitech. Malloy is taking a step back from day-to-day operations after nine years in charge, but will continue to be an active participant as vice chairman of LifeSize’s supervisory board.
AVM has joined the Cisco Developer Network as a Preferred Solution Developer within the AV Integration technology category. In addition, AVM’s AV integration portfolio has successfully completed interoperability testing with Cisco’s Immersive TelePresence products.
Exterity has announced what it calls a significant new feature release for its AvediaStream e2110 SD encoder. The e2110 takes analogue sources and encodes them to digital video for transmission over the IP network. With support for MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 encoding, the e2110 facilitates greater flexibility for organisations looking to integrate video solutions into their communications strategy.
Christie is now shipping the 12,000 lumen LX1200 and the full HD 1080p LHD700 projectors recently add the to the vendor’s range of affordable 3LCD models for rental staging applications, boardrooms, higher education facilities, houses of worship and more.
Pacific Media Associates (PMA), the worldwide market information experts on front projectors, has released their findings on the penetration of 3D-capable projectors and their actual usage. These are the first results from their sixth biennial survey of US end users of front projectors.
Scala Certified Partner Cognition has installed a head-turnng Digital Mannequin in the shop window of the new salon of beauty spa and skin clinic Zen Lifestyleon in Hanover Street in Edinburgh, Scotland.