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EU Wants to Standardise PSUs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Last week, there were lots of reports of the EU’s plans to adopt USB Type-C as a uniform charging standard for consumer devices to reduce the waste and duplication of power …

Tags:Environment| Europe| Power Supplies| Smartphones

Amazon Working on Bigger Echo

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg’s Power On newsletter, written by Mark Gurman, suggested that Amazon is working on a new Echo device, code-named Hoya, that is designed to be put on a wall and has …

Tags:Amazon| Voice Input

macOS beta Reveals New Higher-resolution Screens

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MacRumors reported that there are new entries in the latest beta of macOS Monterey for new resolutions of 3456 x 2234 Retina and 3024 x 1964 Retina (both close to 14:9). …

Tags:Apple| Notebooks

Links Week Commencing 27th September 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. A School District Successfully Implements Boxlight ProColor …

Tags:Amazon| audio| Education| Eizo| Google| GPUs| Huawei| Interactive Displays| OLED TVs| Patents| Pricing| Retail| Skyworth| Smartphones| TCL| Vestel

Plastic optical cable promises cheaper, easy alternative to glass

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Nikkei reported that a team at Keio University has been able to develop a plastic-based optical fibre that might be usable as an alternative to glass fibres. The group claims …

Tags:Fibre optics| Optics| R&D (Research & Development)| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

Bitkom Reports on German CE & Smartphone Markets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The German Bitkom trade association forecast CE revenues in the country as reaching €8.96 billion this year. Flat TV is the biggest single sector at €4.07 billion. Smartphone sales value is …

Tags:CE (Consumer Electronics) Data| Germany| Market Data| Smartphones

NASA Uses AR on the Space Station

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Republicworld.com reported that NASA is launching an AR tool to help users of the International Space Station to repair and maintain the spacecraft. The system uses Microsoft Hololens headset and allows …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Aviation| Microsoft

Skyworth Explains Brighter OLED TV and MiniLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Skyworth held a virtual event to launch its latest TVs. The company gave us a pre-briefing and told us that it would be adding to its facilities outside China by starting …

Tags:MiniLED| OLED TVs| Skyworth

Location-based VR lives on: What’s next for Dreamscape

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Protocol’s Next Up letter gave an update on Dreamscape that is a player in the location-based VR industry which has been hit hard by the pandemic and the blog said that …

Tags:Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| USA

Samsung Display to use vertical deposition for Gen 8.5 IT OLED panels

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung is working with Ulvac of Japan to develop vertical deposition technology for the manufacture of IT application OLEDs on G8.5 substrate sizes. It reports that Ulvac …

Tags:OLEDs| Production Equipment| Samsung Display| Vapour Deposition

UBI Releases Q2 OLED Volumes & Values

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Elec reported data from UBI Research on the siginificant jump in the value of the market for larger OLEDs (10″+) in the last year. That got us digging around and …

Tags:Market Data| OLEDs

Panasonic JZ1500 Series Ships

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Panasonic added the JZ1500, an OLED TV with the top modified panel used in the flagship JZ2000 model, but with less sophisticated audio (no Atmos speakers) at a lower cost. The …

Tags:Europe| OLED TVs| Panasonic