Power Supplies – Display Daily

Links Week Starting 20th June 2022

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. (I’m still catching up after Display Week!) …

EU Agrees USB-C as Universal Charger

by Bob Raikes

What They Say After a long period of thought (EU Wants to Standardise PSUs), the EU Parliament, Council and the European Commission have agreed that a single connector should be used for charging mobile …

Tags:Europe| Legislation| Power Supplies| Wireless Charging

HP launches new Thunderbolt G4 Dock

by Bob Raikes

What They Say HP has a new Thunderbolt dock range, the G4. It features dual DisplayPort 1.4 outputs as well as HDMI 2.0, USB-C (with DisplayPort alt mode) and Thunderbolt 4 ports to support …

Tags:DisplayPort| HP Inc| Power Supplies| Thunderbolt| USB

Links Week Starting 2nd May 2022

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. AOC: New gaming display with 280 Hz …

EU Adopts USB-C for Chargers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Following a recommendation by the European Commission last year, the European Parliament decided to go to an assembly vote over whether to mandate the USB-C connector as a universal charging standard …

Tags:Europe| Legislation| Power Supplies| USB

Apple AR/VR Headset Could be Power Hungry

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In a research note seen by MacRumors, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that the much rumoured forthcoming Apple AR/VR headset will use Apple’s biggest USB-C power adaptor which can provide up to …

Tags:Apple| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Power Supplies| Virtual Reality

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

Links for w/c 12th April 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. Energy Harvesting Shows New Signs Of Life …

Electronic Entertainment Without (much) Power?

by Norbert Hildebrand

,While I typically write about something new in the consumer electronics world and displays in particular, this week I want to pick up the question of not using any display device or consumer electronic …

Tags:360 Degree Video| Power Supplies| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 25 - Issue 09

New Battery has Promise

by Tom Allen

In the same week as Tesla and Panasonic open the Gigafactory – a massive plant in Nevada producing lithium-ion batteries – it is ironic that MIT published a paper on battery evolution, which could …

Tags:Batteries| Power Consumption| Power Supplies| Vol 23 - Issue 44

Moab Moves Into Solar TV

by Tom Allen

A company called Moab Power is designing TVs for countries where power supplies are only intermittent. The company’s normal focus is on addressing basic power and lighting needs in developing regions. The Solar TVs, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Power Supplies| Vol 23 - Issue 27

Mediatek Pumps Up Smartphone Charging

by Tom Allen

Qualcomm currently leads the fast charging market for smartphones, but Mediatek announced plans to dethrone its rival at Computex. Pump Express 3.0 is the company’s new charging technology, said to be able to power …