Today should have been just another ordinary Friday morning at work, thinking about my plans for the weekend, when things took an interesting but exciting twist out of the blue.

The city of São Paulo is the largest city of the southern hemisphere, and by extension, one of the world’s most important cities. São Paulo and the eponymous state it is the capital of, is at the forefront of Brazil’s most important past, present and future episodes.

Imagine that one day, someone would grab a hammer, sneak into your office and give your computer monitor a few hefty blows. Save some kind of miracle, your display would definitely be ready for the trash. While it’s perfectly acceptable for your everyday monitor not to survive this extreme form of maltreatment, things are very different in the case of life-critical devices like the ones used in armored vehicles or aircraft cockpits.

Most readers will probably recall visiting a planetarium once. The high point of the visit usually was a huge room with a scale model of the solar system. Or maybe all you recall is being bored. But times have changed.

Digital terrestrial television (DTT) is on the up in Europe: by 2012 all European member states should have completed the switchover from analog to digital. Spain is leading this transformation with a bit of help from Barco.

3D is all the rage in the entertainment industry - and this time, it’s for real. But what exactly is 3D? Why did its breakthrough come now? And is it true that some people can’t see 3D?

A lot of visualization material is advertised to the general public as having “billions of colors”. This dazzling spec, however, is still unlikely to be noticed by that public because it depends on the content displayed. And, more importantly, it depends on the uniformity of the display equipment.

Now that there are few people in the world who still doubt that destructive climate changes are largely man-made, “green” is everywhere. With this increased awareness, it makes sense that people look at companies to take steps that will protect the environment, because they have a much bigger impact on the world than individuals. Barco is no exception.

"Eco-friendliness" has quickly earned its place high on the requirements list of nearly every new product being developed. With the introduction of the brand-new Coronis Fusion 10MP displays system, Barco has taken its eco approach to the next level. The result? The greenest Barco monitor ever.

As you walk through familiar streets and past the buildings you know so well, you suddenly notice something strange - that tall building at some distance seems to have changed colors. On closer inspection, vivid figures are crawling across the façade. If you see something like this, chances are you're looking at a new trend in urban events: projection mapping.