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I Know I Shouldn’t Laugh

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A Chinese sex toy designed to be a ‘smart male chastity device’ has become vulnerable to a hack that would lock all devices. “The internet-linked sheath has no manual override, so …

Tags:Health and Safety| Smart Home & Home Networks

Lextar ships mini LED BLUs for Xiaomi TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported that Lextar is the supplier of miniLED backlight units for new Xiaomi TVs and gave some technical details on the configuration. The 4K/8K 82″ sets are said to have: …

Tags:LCD Backlights| MiniLED| TVs (TV Sets)| Xiaomi

What They Say Dell has announced new monitors including a new UltraSharp 32 HDR PremierColor Monitor (UP3221Q) which has a miniLED backlight with 2K dimming zones, 99.8% of DCI P3 colour gamut and support …

Sony KD-48A9 48-inch OLED TV Impresses in Review

by Bob Raikes

What They Say What Hi-Fi in the UK looked at the new Sony KD-48A9 OLED TV and thought that it was ‘extraordinarily good’ with ‘Striking picture performance’ and ‘Strong sound’ although it criticised the …

Tags:OLEDs| sony| TVs (TV Sets)

Microsoft starts taking ‘Flight Simulator’ VR beta sign-ups

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Asobo Studios has opened sign-ups for a closed beta test of playing Microsoft’s latest flight simulator program in VR using a Windows Mixed Reality headset like the HP Reverb G2 and …

Tags:Game Playing| Microsoft| Virtual Reality

Sharp to Split-off Display Business?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec, quoting SankeiBiz in Japan, reports that Sharp plans to split off its display business into a new subsidiary Sharp Display Technology (SDTC) based in Kameyama, Japan. The factory in …

Tags:Investment| Reorganisation & Restructuring| sharp

My Experience with the Galaxy Z Flip

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Display market research specialist, Ross Young, has got hold of a Galaxy Z Flip (not the Flip 2) on a special deal and gives his thoughts on the product. He was …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Samsung| Smartphones

Online review shows that the Galaxy Z Fold 2 is more durable than the original Fold, but not by much

by Bob Raikes

What They Say JerryRigEverything did a stress test on the Samsung Z Fold 2. The front display uses Corning Victus glass and has hardness on the mho scale around 6 or 7. The internal …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Samsung| Smartphones

Samsung drops under display camera plan for S21

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec in Korea reports that Samsung has dropped its plan to put an under-display camera in the Galaxy S21 series due next year because of low yield in production. The …

Tags:Cameras| Smartphones

Introducing the Ray Tracing Levels System – and what it will mean for gaming.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Imagination Technology has developed a system to classify ray tracing performance to help developers understand how ray tracing can be supported, at appropriate levels of efficiency (e.g. for mobile apps). Level …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Imagination Tech| ray tracing

Google Ends Support for Daydream VR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google has officially ended support for the Daydream VR platform, four years after its introduction and there is no guarantee that Android 11 will support compatible headsets. Google ended its sales …

Tags:Google| Virtual Reality

Netflix to add 4K Support on Newer Macs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple has updated its macOS to ‘Big Sur’ and will allow some 2018/2019 and 2020 Apple systems to replay Netflix content in UltraHD. The article suggests that this is because the …

Tags:Netflix| Streaming Video| SVOD| UltraHD & 4K