LAVA is a Ukrainian-Canadian company founded in 1984 that manufactures in Canada. In 2014, LAVA shifted to designing and building hardware for adapters that can do power and data simultaneously to tablet devices, turning them into much more B2B accessible devices and conditioning their batteries to get about six years of life.
Those of us who have been long-time football fans recall years ago seeing coaching staff treading the sidelines holding clipboards with sheets of paper flapping in the breeze. As players came back to the bench, the coaches would scribble out plays or flip through play sheets to diagnose what just happened out on the field.
SEATTLE—Employees at one of Boeing’s Washington assembly plants are using an odd looking tablet PC with a dozen or more 0.63-millimeter silver balls attached to it. This is Boeing’s vision of the future of augmented reality integrated on the assembly line.