Working bed: 12″x20″ (300mm x 500mm) Maximum thickness of material with tray installed: 0.5″ (13mm) Maximum thickness of material with tray removed: 1.5″ (38mm) Focus range: 0.5″ (13mm)
MATERIAL CAPABILITY
Thickness: Varies by material; can cut most 1/4″ plywood and acrylic on one side; twice as thick by reversing and cutting from both sides with optical alignment
Cuts & Engraves
wood
fabric
leather
paper
cardboard
plexiglas (acrylic)
deirin (acetal)
mylar
rubber
fiberglass
cork
sandpaper
silicone sheet
corian
foods
…and more
Engraves Only
glass
marble
rubber stamps
stone
ceramic tile
anodized aluminum
stainless steel
brass
titanium
…and more
SOFTWARE
Trace mode scans material with a drawing on it, then cuts and engraves over the top Compatible with JPG, PNG, TIF, SVG, AI, DXF, PDF, and many more file formats Drag-and-drop with live preview to position designs on the material Catalog of premium, customizable, ready-to-print designs
ONE BUTTON PRINT
Plugins available for common software including Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape New features continually being added
CAMERAS
Wide Angle Camera — View of the entire laser bed Macro Camera — Able to view one square inch with resolution of 0.002” Camera can record stills and video for documentation and sharing of projects Optical Thickness Measurement — Optical system measures the height at various points across the material to 0.005”
AUTOFOCUS
Completely Internal — Lens moves internally up and down inside the head by 0.5” (13mm) Continuous Autofocus — Laser focal point can be changed as the head travels, following complex curves during cuts and engraves Multipass — Focus can be shifted between engrave passes, allowing detailed depth engraves. Focus Override — the laser can be defocused to experiment with a range of techniques that require less intense heat including acrylic bending and cooking
LIGHTING
RGB internal illumination with dual high power LED strips and camera light ring Near-UV illumination under the laser head for invisible QR and barcode detection
LASER SYSTEM
Custom Laser — Custom CO2 laser tube operating at 10,600 nm averages 40W for Standard Model and 45W for Pro Model Laser Quality — TEM00 tube produces smaller spot size and greater power density, increasing engraving precision and cutting speeds Fixed Alignment — Factory calibrated optical system does not require user calibration Sealed Optics — Enclosed optical path with cleanable and replaceable windows protects the laser optics to avoid cleaning, replacement, or realignment
MECHANICALS
Case — High modulus injection molded plastic Linear System — Custom extruded aluminum linear rails with belt driven v-wheel carrier Motion — Dual hybrid stepper Y axis; single hybrid stepper X axis Cooling — Closed loop self contained internal cooling. Air Assist — Internal air assist, no external compressor hookup required
MISCELLANEOUS
WIFI Connectivity Basic model is a CDRH Class I Laser Device Pro model is a CDRH Class IV Laser Device Positioning precision to 0.001” Engraving at 1000 DPI with 256 power levels
PRO UPGRADE
Passthrough slot allows the use of material that’s 20” wide and as long as desired Passthrough software uses the camera to maintain alignment as long material is pushed through Laser tube is upgraded from 40W to 45W Higher quality optics provide for more beam power at the head Upgraded solid state thermoelectric cooling
Glowforge has launched a new desktop laser. It's lower cost, easier to use, faster, and more affordable than traditional 3D printers and CNC laser cutter/engravers. Learn more at www.glowforge.com.
Recently at IFA 2015 Berlin LG once more unveiled the Wall flexible OLED TV display, plus a new two sided display TV. LG has confirmed the availability of the Wall Flexible display for January 2016.
In a short time our TVs will became obsolete. What would you prefer instead: Wall Flexible or two sided?
Our Q2-2015 Market Monitor report has been published. We update one infographic in each quarter to summarize handset and smartphone market activities in a single page.The report tracks now more than 75 top vendor shipments every quarter across regions and countries which contribute toalmost 90% of the total global smartphone volumesand much more at country level. The global mobile phone industry shipments grew 5% YoY. Middle East Africawas thefastest growingregion up grew7 timesfaster than global.
One of every five mobile phone shipped globally is a Samsung.
Huawei became the world’s third largest handset surpassing Microsoft.
Asus shipments grew 5X from a year ago to become fastest growing brand , followed by Vivo’s total shipments grew 4X compared to a year ago
Every 3 out of 4 mobile phone shipped on planet is a smartphone.
Excluding Samsung, Apple now generates more smartphone revenues than the all other players combined
One in two smartphones shipped globally now is LTE capable.
US and China together contributed to two-thirds of the LTE smartphone market
LTE Smartphone shipments grew 4X in china and 12x in India annually
Please feel free to reach out to us for press or this research-related questions at: analyst (at) counterpointresearch.com
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This photo released by Samsung Electronics Co. on Sept. 25, 2015, shows the new Samsung Gear VR and Samsung smartphones that work on the device.
Samsung unveiled today September 25, 2015 a new versions of its VR (Virtual Reality) device which supports the Galaxy high end smartphones like the Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6 edge plus, Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge.
The VR allows users to enjoy gaming and movie contents with a 360 degrees rotation view. The Galaxys with Super AMOLED displays will bring vivid content to them.
The device will cost $99.- in the USA and will be available world wide in Q4 2015.
Press Release:
Samsung and Oculus Introduce the First Consumer Version of Gear VR.
Samsung and Oculus deliver a new and refined Gear VR, with hundreds of new content options, to the most enjoyable and comfortable mobile VR experience
[Seoul, South Korea, September 25, 2015] – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced its first Gear VR device aimed to consumers, extending its leadership in the wearables category. The latest edition of the Gear VR is compatible with even more smartphones, including the Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6 edge+, S6 and S6 edge, leveraging each device’s super AMOLED display to provide the color, clarity and performance needed for an amazing virtual reality experience.
“Samsung has been at the forefront of delivering mobile experiences and ‘Gear VR Innovator Edition’ launched last year was no exception,” said JK Shin, CEO and President of IT & Mobile Division, Samsung Electronics. “We see virtual reality as the next computing platform, and we are thrilled to partner with Oculus on Gear VR to set the standard for mobile VR and bring this revolutionary product to consumers.”
The Samsung Gear VR is 22 percent lighter than previous Gear VR Innovator Edition, and includes new foam cushioning to make the device more comfortable to wear. In addition, the Gear VR’s touchpad has been improved, providing greater control while enjoying the robust selection of film, gaming, 360 degree video and experiential content available for Gear VR.
“Together with Samsung, we've redefined virtual reality and created the best mobile VR experience available today,” said Brendan Iribe, CEO, Oculus. “On Gear VR, people are playing immersive VR games with friends, sharing 360 video experiences, and teleporting around the world with photos and videos – and it’s only the beginning for what’s possible with mobile VR.”
The Samsung Gear VR will be available in Frost White for USD 99 starting this fall.
Victo the robot is powered by SSD 850 PRO, and with 3D V-NAND, he’s able to enjoy running from LA to New York, jumping off towers in Dubai and while you read this, he’s also planning his next adventure. He dislikes slow computers, freezing computers, slow booting and loading time. Powered by 3D V-NAND, he is covered for over 10 years.
The SSD revolution has started, with the world’s first 3D V-NAND-powered Samsung SSD 850 PRO. A Small but mighty SSD, with the power to revive your computer by making it boot-up faster, last longer with 10 years warranty and many more.
Hear how the two co-founders, Justin Gignac and Adam Tompkins, are powering the “gig economy” by curating and empowering a network of the world’s best freelance creatives using Skype and Office
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Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled five new solid state drives (SSD) lineups on Tuesday that come with improved speed and power efficiency, with one of them featuring the third-generation V-NAND.
The South Korean giant showcased a 2.5-inch model in its 850 EVO lineup that comes with the third-generation V-NAND technology in three sizes -- 1 terabyte, 500 gigabytes and 250 gigabytes.
The development is significant because the new generation boasts 48 layers of cells, compared to the 32 layers in the second generation, thus allowing SSDs to boast improved performances.
A solid state drive is a data storage device made with a NAND flash memory chip that saves data without power present and is more durable and faster than a hard disk drive.
"Through the launch of the third-generation V-NAND SSD, we have provided optimized solutions to consumers and businesses that boasts the industry's fastest speed and excellent power-saving features," Samsung said, adding that the firm has paved the way to open a full-fledged commercialization of terabyte-level SSDs.
Previous 850 EVO models came with the second-generation V-NAND. Samsung said it plans to add more terabyte-level products in the lineup and tap deeper into the premium market.
Samsung also introduced four other SSDs that are based on the second-generation V-NAND.
The new products are expected to be released in 50 countries, including South Korea, China and the United States later this month.
Press Releaase:
Current and Future Data Demands
Worldwide data transferal continues to grow at an explosive rate. The amount of data being shared by average users on a daily basis is at an all-time high:
Facebook: 250 billion photos uploaded per day
Twitter: 100,000 new tweets per minute
YouTube: 30 hours of video uploaded per minute
flickr: 3,000 photos uploaded per minute
foursquare: over 2,000 check-ins per minute
Even semiconductor and memory chip development add to this increase in data sharing. Currently, these fields account for the transferal of approximately 4 Exabytes of data per month. However, that number is projected to increase to 10 Exabytes per month in 2016. Improvements must be made to existing memory to rise to the challenge of such rapid data growth.
Benefits of Samsung V-NAND over 2D Planar NAND
More capacity
More speed
More endurance
More power efficiency
Samsung's new 3D V-NAND will be used for a wide range of consumer electronics and enterprise applications, including solid state drives (SSDs). Consumers can expect their handheld computers to perform better for longer periods of time between charges. Datacenter managers can expect increased productivity and longevity while saving on their power bill.
Structural Changes Lead to Samsung V-NAND Memory
Over the past 15 years, NAND Flash memory cell structure has gone from 120nm scale to 19nm scale. Along with this drastically shrinking structure, capacity has grown by 100 times. Just how is Samsung V-NAND Flash memory able to offer 100 times the capacity in only 1/10th the same area? That's where the V in V-NAND comes in, as Samsung stacks the cells vertically.
Samsung's three-dimensional Vertical NAND Flash memory (3D V-NAND) breaks free of the scaling limit for existing NAND Flash technology. Samsung has developed a new structure through its first 24-layer V-NAND.
Problems with Shrinking Technology
Shrinking is a fundamental technological advancement in almost any field, but it gains significant importance in memory engineering. As memory structures shrink, so do the multitude of mobile devices people worldwide use on a daily basis. Samsung has committed considerable resources and effort toward researching and developing shrinking advancements while also working to mitigate the two biggest problems inherent in shrinking technology.
Cell-to-Cell Interference
When an electric charge flows into one cell, an electric charge flows into a neighboring cell (known as the coupling effect). This extraneous charge to the neighboring cell actually changes the stored data, resulting in corruption of that data. This interference does not occur when the space between cells is greater than 30nm, but as that space shrinks smaller than 20nm, the chance for cell-to-cell interference increases.
Patterning
Patterning is a manufacturing technology developed for photolithography to enhance density. The patterning process allows for geometries half as wide as the scanner is capable of printing, but it has its limits within the 10nm process range.
Overcoming Inherent Shrinking Problems
Samsung has developed and applied a variety of technologies to prevent both data-corrupting interference and the limits of patterning. 3D V-NAND replaces 2D Planar NAND's conductor with an insulator that allows cells to hold their charges after writing data. Due to its vertical cell arrangement, Samsung's 3D V-NAND features a wider bit line, effectively removing cell-to-cell interference.
Stacking the vertical layers in three dimensions allowed for 24-layer products in 2013 and has increased to 32-layer products in June of 2014. Using stacking instead of photolithography to increase capacity eliminated the patterning limitation.
The new features of Office 2016 makes it really to want it. These are some of the reasons that will wow you up to make an upgrade or buy it right the way:
The new Office. Takes the work out of working together.
The new Office—takes the work out of working together
Press Release:
It’s here! Today is the worldwide release of Office 2016 for Windows. This marks a milestone in delivering new value for Office 365 subscribers with a focus on collaboration, apps that work for you, a perfect pairing with Windows 10, and security features businesses will love. It also marks a new model for delivery, where subscribers can expect to get more frequent updates with new features and improvements.
Along with Office 2016 for Windows, today we are also releasing Office 2016 for Mac as a one-time purchase option, along with several new and enhanced Office 365 services.
The new Office lets people work together across devices, Office apps, and time zones so that amazing things can happen. Because when you take the work out of working together, you’re just together. Welcome to our new Office. http://off365.ms/PIyhav (original sound track by the
Collaboration is the way we get things done in the workplace, but the process itself can be complex and frustrating. It shouldn’t have to be. We set out to make working together easier and more impactful by building a suite of integrated apps and services that removes barriers and empowers teams to do and achieve more.
Office has always been the go-to tool for helping individuals do their best work—whether for professional documents, powerful analyses or school presentations. People often start and end their work in Office, but there is often a messy middle that involves a lot of discussion—in person, by phone or via various tools—as well as multiple (sometimes conflicting) inputs. Today we are delivering a set of experiences that is built for making teamwork seamless.
We have had real-time co-authoring in all of our web apps since 2013. We are now taking it to the next level by building it directly into our native apps. With this release, we’re making co-authoring in Word real-time, which lets you see what others are writing immediately, as it happens. We’re committed to expanding real-time co-authoring to each of our native apps and you should expect to see more over time.
Skype for Business is now available in the client apps, allowing you to IM, screen share, talk or video chat right in your docs. This same experience will be coming to Office Online later this fall. Skype for Business also has faster screen sharing and now adds the option to start a real-time co-authoring session from any conversation or meeting.
Keep teams connected with Office 365 Groups, now available as part of Outlook 2016 and in a new Outlook Groups app on iOS, Android and Windows Phone. Office 365 Groups allows individuals to easily create public or private teams. Each group includes a shared inbox, calendar, cloud storage for group files, and a shared OneNote notebook to keep the team productive.
Office 365 Planner helps teams organize their work, with the ability to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, set due dates and update status. Planner’s visual dashboards and email notifications help keep everyone informed on the overall progress of their initiative. Planner will be available in preview, to Office 365 First Release customers, starting next quarter.
Originally unveiled earlier this year, GigJam is today available in private preview and will become part of Office 365 in 2016. GigJam is an unprecedented new way for teams to accomplish tasks and transform business processes by breaking down the barriers between devices, apps and people.
Works for you
In today’s workplace, we have too many apps, devices and tools—we just don’t have enough time. Office is built to cut through the complexity and help you get things done quickly. It gets work done for you.
Some highlights:
Outlook 2016 provides the smartest inbox yet, delivering lightning fast search, removing low priority mail automatically and making sure everyone on the To: line has the right access to modern, cloud-based attachments from OneDrive.
We also have significant new updates to OneDrive for Business coming later this month across sync, browser, mobile, IT control and developer experiences. The highlight is the preview of the next generation sync client for Windows and Mac, offering improved reliability and selective sync, as well as increased file size and volume limits.
Tell Me helps you easily and quickly find the right Office feature or command, and Smart Lookup brings insights from the web right into your documents. Previously available only in Office Online, Tell Me and Smart Lookup are now available across the Office 2016 client apps.
Excel 2016 now includes integrated publishing to Power BI and new modern chart-types to help you make the most of your data.
The cloud-powered most recently used documents list allows you to pick up right where you left off in seconds, because it travels with you across your devices whether working in Office Online, the mobile apps or in the 2016 client apps.
Perfect with Windows 10
While we have made a lot of progress on delivering Office cross-platform and remain committed to this strategy, we see Windows as being “home” for Office. Together, Office 365 and Windows 10 are the most complete solution for getting things done.
With Windows Hello, you can sign in to your PC and Office 365 with a simple look or a touch—no need to type a password anymore.
In the coming months, Cortana will get even smarter and more useful by gathering intelligence on Office 365 through Outlook 2016 support.
With the Office Mobile apps and Continuum on Windows phones, your phone can act as a desktop, and you can project, create or edit your presentation or sales budget from your phone to a monitor while using the same phone to take notes with the OneNote app.
Sway on Windows 10 was released in early August, and customers love it! It has received a 4.6/5 app store ranking, with customers calling it “funtastic,” “brilliant” and “elegant.” People love Sway’s simple and intuitive yet powerful approach to next-generation digital storytelling. With Sway, you provide the content, and Sway creates beautiful, shareable, interactive stories that look great on any screen.
Our Office Mobile apps on Windows 10 (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) have also received great reception and 4+ app store rankings. Customers say they are touch-friendly, fast and easy to use—making them wonderful for on-the-go-productivity.
For the enterprise
Office 2016 apps with Office 365 provide the most secure Office yet. We are adding built-in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to significantly reduce the risk of leaking sensitive data by giving IT admins tools to centrally create, manage and enforce policies for content authoring and document sharing.
Multifactor Authentication ensures secure access to content anywhere when employees are away from the corporate network. We are also adding Information Rights Management to Visio.
Then, later this year, we will be enabling Enterprise Data Protection (EDP) in Windows 10, with support in Office Mobile, which allows more secure corporate content sharing across corporate managed apps and network/cloud locations, preventing inadvertent content sharing outside corporate boundaries. We will be following up with EDP for Office on Windows desktop in early 2016.
Some of our favorite enterprise apps—Visio and Project—have been updated as well. With Visio 2016, customers can get started quickly with diagramming using starter diagrams and contextual tips. Bringing process models, manufacturing plant or IT architecture to life is now only one step away.
With Project 2016, customers can streamline resource engagement processes, manage resource pools through visual heat maps, benefit from multiple timelines, and create custom experiences in Project desktop through write-back capabilities for add-ins.
We are also making deployment easier and have a lot of other new capabilities to help IT professionals, as announced in our blog to IT admins two weeks ago.
Office 2016 for Mac
In July, we released Office 2016 for Mac to our Office 365 customers. The new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote are a significant step forward and provide the best of both worlds for Mac users—a familiar Office experience paired with the best of the Mac platform. The level of engagement and excitement about this Office for Mac release has surpassed our expectations. As promised in July, today Office 2016 for Mac will also be available as a one-time purchase.
Ongoing Office 365 customer value
Whew—that was a lot! With this release, we’re also shifting the cadence of Office on Windows to feel much more like the cadence we have on the Office mobile and web apps, which release every month with new value. So, going forward, Office 365 customers will now enjoy new features and capabilities delivered continuously in the Office desktop applications as part of their subscription. It’s a new day for our desktop apps.
And as a bit of a teaser, here are some examples of the types of new features and benefits Office 365 customers will see:
Built for teamwork—We’re committed to rich co-authoring and collaboration across our native clients, starting in Word 2016, with other big advances in collaboration coming throughout the year. By the end of 2015, we’ll introduce Office 365 Groups insights and discovery in Office Delve. In addition, we will have a new generation of personal work analytics in Office Delve that will help individuals, teams and organizations to be more effective at work by understanding their reach and impact, time allocation and network.
Works for you—For those of you who are excited about our new charts and forecasting, we will be delivering even more new charts, formulas, connectors and other Excel capabilities throughout the year. (If you’re interested in telling us which charts and charting features you’d like to see first, we have a survey going on our Excel Facebook page right now!). We also have some very exciting developments in the pipeline for PowerPoint that will make it easier to design and deliver presentations to wow and engage your audience.
Perfect on Windows 10—We are especially excited about how even more valuable your personal assistant Cortana can be when she has insights from Office. This will start to allow Cortana to unlock helpful scenarios, like retrieving your documents, preparing for meetings and more.
Get started
We want to thank all of our Preview customers who have been with us since as early as February, trying out the new apps, giving us feedback, and helping to shape the final product. Your feedback has been invaluable, and we thank you for helping make the best Office yet.
We hope you are excited as we are about the new Office. Buy it, try it or learn more—but please keep your feedback coming!
Are you ready to purchase? Buy Office 365 to get the new 2016 apps.
Are you an existing Office 365 customer who is ready to upgrade? Go here for instructions on how to upgrade to Office 2016 for home, or here for business customers.
