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USB Promoter Group Boosts PD to 240W

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The USB Promoter Group has updated the USB Power Delivery specification to boost the maximum power from 100W (20V @ 5A) to 240W (48V @ 5A). 28V and 36V fixed voltage …

Tags:USB| USB Monitors

Apple Explains More on Liquid Retina XDR Display

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say 9to5Mac reported an interview with Apple’s Scott Broderick of worldwide iPad product marketing and Vincent Gu of the display engineering team and discussed, among other things, why the XDR technology is …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| iPad| MiniLED| tablets

Samsung has no plans to abandon Tizen

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung told Protocol that “Tizen still is the default platform for our smart TVs going forward” after the company decided to merge its OS with Google’s Android platform for wearables. (Android …

Tags:Operating Systems| Samsung| Smart TV| Tizen

LG 32UN550

LG 32UN550 Offers 32″ UHD with Good Value

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Prad.de reported on a new LG monitor, the 32UN550 which has UltraHD resolution and uses a VA panel with 3000:1 contrast. Response time is quoted at 4ms grey to grey and …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| LG Electronics (LGE)

iFixit is Sniffy about Samsung Upcycling

by Bob Raikes

What They Say iFixit published an article that was very sniffy (in my UK parlance) about Samsung’s ‘Upcycling’ programme that was announced in 2017, but doesn’t seem to have come to much. To quote …

Tags:Right to Repair| Samsung

E Ink Launches the World’s First On-Cell Touch ePaper Module  

by Artem Alekseenko

“E Ink”, the leading innovator of electronic ink technology, announced the launch of the world’s first On-Cell Touch ePaper module. This new On-Cell touch ePaper module supports both the E Ink Kaleido™ Plus Print …

Tags:ePaper| Touch Display Research (TDR)

E Ink Launches the World’s First On-Cell Touch ePaper Module

by Bob Raikes

What They Say E Ink announced that it has its first ePaper module with on-cell touch. The technology is available on its Kaleido colour EPD display or the monochrome Carta devices. The development of …

Tags:EPD (Electrophoretic)| eReaders| Touch

Highly Efficient Red MicroLEDs are Under Development

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers led by Zhe Zhuang within the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) are developing highly efficient red …

Tags:MicroLED| R&D (Research & Development)