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O2 Goes to the Roots of Rugby for New Smartphone

A prototype smartphone for rugby lovers has been built – using grass from Twickenham Stadium. In an effort to boost its recycling credentials, O2 created the concept unit using tens of thousands of blades of grass from the Stadium, as well as components from older phones. The grass was freeze-dried shortly after being cut, then … Read more

Atrust Provides OS Choice in Mobile Thin Client

Atrust of Taiwan has introduced a new mobile thin client running either Windows Embedded Standard (WE8S) (MT168W) or Linux (MT168L) The thin client is an 11.6″ model (1366 x 768) with a dual-core 1.58GHz Intel Bay Trail processor and a Trusted Platform Module chipset, to protect data. It is able to run major protocols and … Read more

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 13

The UK price of Acer‘s Revo One RL85 (Acer Attempts to Kickstart Notebook Innovation) has been shared. The mini PC will be available from the 6th April and will start at £200 ($300), scaling to £500 ($745) for the most expensive version. Acer has also launched its C910 Chromebook (Acer Iterates on 15″ Chromebook Design) … Read more

Lenovo CEO Leaks New Moto 360

Lenovo (Motorola’s new owner) CEO Yang Yuanqing appears to have pre-empted an official announcement of a next-generation Moto 360 smartwatch, by sharing a picture on his Weibo account. Yang alluded to the smartwatch in the post, which was quickly deleted. A new design, with lugs to attach new bands and which hides the ambient light … Read more

Weak Demand Causes Panel Price Fall in March

IHS DisplaySearch has released its panel price data for March. Downward trends were seen in almost every market segment. Weak demand meant that monitor panel prices continued to fall. Vendors still have inventories, so panel makers are finding sell-out a challenge and are offering many incentives and deals. Due to slow demand for notebook and … Read more

Hisense Germany Adds to Sales Team

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Tino LohseHisense Germany has hired two new regional sales executives. Tino Lohse joins the company from Schmid Electronics GmbH and has also worked for Vestel and Beko. He will be responsible for sales in the southeast of Germany. Michael Huml takes charge of the northeast region and joins Hisense from Pioneer Electronics Deutschland Automotive.

TCO Opens Display Draft for Comments

TCO Development has opened a draft criteria document for stakeholder comment (http://tinyurl.com/pb7gjrd), as part of its review of the TCO Certified criteria (TCO Reviews TCO Certified Criteria). The draft document deals with TCO Certified Displays 7, but criteria will be largely similar for all product categories. The document will be open for comment until 19th … Read more

Display Solutions Utilises PSD Touch Technology

UK-based Display Solutions has developed a new 42″ touch display. Supporting up to 10 touch points, the DT-S42FD uses Planar Scatter Detection technology, registering touches from gloved hands. (that sounds very much like the FlatFrog technology under a different name! – TA) Front glass is flush to the bezel, and the display uses an in-glass … Read more