At the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas (6-9 January), Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic ...
New England Brewing Company has apologized for using a picture of late Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi on its Gandhi-Bot beer cans. The move comes after a lawyer filed a petition in a court in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, alleging ...
Panasonic is showing off a prototype 4K Blu-ray player at CES 2015. While 4K TV is definitely a thing now, with a greater range of Ultra High Definition TV sets on display at this year's CES, there's still the small matter of content. ...
The collectables specialist has announced a roster of new releases for 2015 featuring some of the most celebrated and niche licenses of recent years. Funko has revealed a swathe of new Pop, Retro-Pop and ReAction figures for the year ...
Tags: animated movie, Toys
LEGO Ideas user wants to bring the frantic world of Dr. Seuss to the LEGO arena with educational play-set for kids and adults. Over the years, The Cat in the Hat has taken on numerous guises, from book form and animated series to a motion ...
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ASUS is preparing to launch a new ZenPhone at CES, which integrates an optical zoom camera, judging by a teaser video posted online. The brief clip, posted to YouTube on Friday, asks viewers to ‘guess the hidden message’ laid ...
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Everything you need to know about the Samsung Galaxy S6 The Samsung Galaxy S6 release date is fast approaching, and with 2015 now upon us, a flurry of Galaxy S6 leaks and rumours have started to surface. With the Galaxy S6 release date ...
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Everything you need to know about the LG G4 LG has been stepping on Samsung and Apple's toes in the smartphone space in recent years and 2015 looks set to be all about the eagerly awaited LG G4 release date. Having re-established itself ...
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For many LED makers, 2014 has been a challenging year, with performance in the first and second halves of the year very polarized for many, notes Roger Chu, research director of LEDinside (a research division of TrendForce). Lighting market ...
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Canadian establishment Maple Leaf Foods has announced plans to close its plant in Winnipeg on 31 December. The Winnipeg plant, which is one of three previously identified for closure next year, will be the sixth closure under a ...
Tags: commercial requirements, financial targets, Agriculture
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has extended its line of PAR and AR111 lamps to offer a full range of halogen ...
Tags: Soraa, GaN-on-GaN, LED Lamps
The Samsung Galaxy S6 has made yet another pre-release appearance, popping up at an R&D facility in India. Leaked via a Zauba import document, the Galaxy S6 has been spotted doing the rounds under what is believed to be its official ...
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The Optical Society (OSA) and the IEEE Photonics Society have named Paul Daniel Dapkus, the W. M. Keck Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), as recipient of the 2015 John Tyndall Award for ...
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The SportsOneSource Group (SOS, SportsOneSource) and Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) have entered into an agreement that will result in SportsOneSource taking full control and ownership of the OIA VantagePoint retail point-of-sale ...
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany says that the principal application of its new IR Oslux SFH 4780S (its first infrared emitter with a wavelength of 810nm) is biometric unlocking of cell phones and tablet computers. With ...
Tags: cell phones, tablet computers, Electrical