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A man has fixed his dead laptop by baking it in an oven. Sean Buckley, writing for Gizmodo, fixed his device following a recipe from the world’s greatest cookbook: the internet. The actual problem was a faulty Nvidia GPU (the same responsible for the Xbox’s ‘red ring of death’), which would overheat and melt the … Read more
Asahi Glass will expand its polyvinyl chloride (PVC) capacity at a local subsidiary in Vietnam by 50% by early 2016. Annual capacity will reach 150,000 tons. In addition, the Vietnamese unit will increase procurement of a PVC precursor from another Asahi subsidiary in Indonesia, according to the Nikkei.
The 69.5″ 7001LT is Elo’s new large-format multi-touch display, for retail, hospitality, real estate, education and other commercial applications. To facilitate use in commercial environments, the unit is slim (94mm), complying with the American Disability Association’s guidelines of less than a 101.5mm (4″) protrusion for wall-mounted products. Up to 10 touches can be registered at … Read more
SBB, the Swiss railway operator, has expanded its digitisation project (SBB Invests CHF15 Million in LED Displays) and revealed the name of the display supplier. Rather than 44 LED displays, SBB now intends to roll out up to 50, supplied by Daktronics. 42 displays will have been installed at 15 stations this year, with the … Read more
Stanford University researchers have developed a new manufacturing process for gallium arsenide – a semiconductor material that is faster than silicon, but around 1,000 times more expensive to work with. Smartphones already use gallium arsenide, due to its speed. Solar panels are among other applications, thanks to the material’s efficiency, but the expense limits the … Read more
Samsung is working with the Stanford Research Institute to improve the security of its mobile devices. SRI has an iris-scanning technology that Samsung will integrate into a custom version of its Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 tablet. The tablet will be shown at the ISC West show in Las Vegas in April. According to SRI, its … Read more
An undergraduate at Purdue University in the USA has suggested a way to counter the ‘motion sickness of virtual reality’ by programming in a virtual nose. Motion sickness occurs when you see motion with your eyes without feeling motion in your vestibular system (i.e. actually feeling movement). Fixed-reference objects, like window frames, help to stop … Read more
Supply chain sources, including touch panel maker TPK, have told Asian media that Apple Watch yields are rising, after a low Q1. Total shipments in 2015 are expected to reach 15 million units. Two million – 2.2 million units are expected to be shipped before the Watch is released in April, down from an initial … Read more
Intel will work with Google and partners including Asus, Acer, HP, Lenovo, Quanta and Pegatron to launch hybrid Chromebooks in Q2, say supply chain sources. The sources said that vendors will focus on on 11″ – 13″ models, promoting them with low pricing. The US education market will be the first target, followed by roll-outs … Read more
Acer Inc. has released its fourth quarter and full year results, posting a net profit for the year of NT$1.8 billion ($56.4 million) on turnover of NT$329.7 billion ($10.4 billion). In Q4, the company recorded a net profit of NT$654 million ($20.6 million) on turnover of NT$85.9 billion ($2.7 billion).
Three different iPhones will be released this year, say sources in Asia: the iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus and a 4″ model referred to as the iPhone 6C. All three will use LTPS displays, supplied by Japan Display for the latter two models and by Sharp and LG Display for the 6S. The sources say … Read more
French regulator the CSA has approved the continued use of certain frequencies in the 700MHz spectrum, for a further six months. The frequencies will be in use at three transmission sites by rail operator SNCF.
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