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At the 2016 National Hardware Show held in Las Vegas, May 4-6, the Kickstarter-funded company Alkilu (Los Angeles) won the New Product World Winner prize for aesthetics. The product, called TripLit, is a thin, lightweight camping lantern with a clamshell design. A large hanging hook is enclosed within the clamshell when it’s closed, and the … Read more
PMA Research, the worldwide market information experts on front projectors, has posted their most recent Projector Tracking Service results to the “Top-Selling Projectors” area of their website. For more than 17 years now, PMA Research has collected monthly sell-through data from leading North American projector dealers, retailers, web resellers and distributors. Their Tracking Service family … Read more
/Chinese Cultraview, world’s leading TV mainboard manufacturer, and Foxxum, global leader in Smart TV solutions headquartered in Germany, have signed a Smart TV pre-integration deal, which adds Foxxum technology and content portfolio to Cultraview mainboards. That way Foxxum will instantly become available on a huge part of the TV production worldwide to enable content providers … Read more
Foxxum of Germany has done a deal with Cultraview of China, said to be the world’s leading TV mainboard maker, to ‘pre-integrate’ Foxxum’s Smart TV technology into the boards. This will make it easier for smaller ODMs and brands to add Smart TV functions and to reduce time to market and development costs. Foxxum claims … Read more
German TV channel RTL Nitro has three episodes of ‘Nitro Autoquartett’ in UHD resolution. HD+, German DTH satellite platform, will air the programmes simultaneously on UHD1 by HD+on Astra (19.2° East) and RTL Nitro. The first episode in UHD will air on 21st October 2016 at 21:15 CET and the other two episodes will show … Read more
LG Electronics (LG) is welcoming visitors to its IFA 2016 exhibition booth with an awe-inspiring and immersive OLED Tunnel measuring a record-breaking 5m tall, 7.4m wide and 15m in length. A total of 216 separate 55-inch curved OLED signage displays were assembled to create the unique structure comprising of 447,897,600 – nearly half a billion … Read more
Sony has enhanced its Home Cinema line-up with the addition of a new, compact native 4K Home Cinema projector launched at IFA 2016. The VPL-VW550ES is the third model in Sony’s existing portfolio to support 4K HDR, making it the ideal home cinema or living room theatre solution for cinema, music and sporting event fans … Read more
During the IFA show, Samsung had to issue a recall for its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone as well as a stop to sales (although it seems that in some geographies, sales continued to be made). 35 cases of phones ‘blowing up’ while charging were logged by Samsung around the world and the fault was estimated … Read more
Lenovo held its press event offsite, so we didn’t hear about it until it was too late to get there, which was a shame, but we got a good look around the booth and at the Showstoppers event. Lenovo continues to innovate and there was lots to look at at the show. The first new … Read more
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today unveiled the Gear S3, a striking and innovative smartwatch that further solidifies Samsung’s leadership in the wearables category. Inspired by traditional timepieces and the art of watchmaking, the Gear S3 combines timeless design with the latest in mobile technology, including IP68 water resistance, mobile payments*, LTE connectivity, and built-in speaker … Read more
The Securities Times in China reported that TCL will join with CSOT to establish an 11G LCD/AMOLED fab in Shenzen and with the Shanghai City Government. The total investment plan is estimated at $6.96 billion and the firms will establish a joint venture for the project. Capacity is planned at 90K substrates per month, with … Read more
Sony Pictures is planning to include support in its “Ultra” streaming service for the playback of UltraHD on PCs that have Intel’s new ‘Kaby Lake’ 7th generation Core processors. The service will also offer a rental option as well as the purchase option that was previously available. The rental cost will be $7.99 for 48 … Read more
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