Firm's CEO, Richard North, has revealed 'strong profit' for the year, and expects the New Year to prove a success for Wow! Stuff. Wow! Stuff is predicting the New Year to be the second best performing year in the company’s ...
Tags: racing car system, Toys
Creative Steps magazine has revealed the winners and highly commended entries across all 21 categories, including Toys and Games and Role Play. The results of the 2014 Creative Awards are in. After months of testing, Creative Steps ...
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has upgraded the performance of its MR16 GU10 base 120V LED lamp line with the ...
Tags: Soraa, GaN-on-GaN, LED Lamps
This 9.75-carat fancy vivid blue diamond, named the “Zoe Diamond” by the private buyer from Hong Kong who purchased it, set a record for any blue diamond at auction when it sold for $32.6 million at Sotheby’s last week. ...
Tags: blue diamond, Arts
The first Toy & Game Inventors Workshop took place in September, as budding toy creators grasped the opportunity to pitch their ideas to some of the biggest companies in the industry. Billy Langsworthy reviews the event and explains how it ...
Tags: Toy&Game Inventors, Toys
Centro Seta, the Florentine textile maker, has come up with a sustainably produced new generation of Autumn/Winter 2015-2016 silk fabric range made exclusively in Italy entitled Bacx. A result of innovative sustainable technological ...
Tags: easy-to-care silk fabrics, high-tech eco-silk collection, Textile
The “Blue Belle of Asia,” weighing 392.52 carats, set a new world record price for a sapphire when it sold for $17.5 million, leading Christie’s to its highest jewelry auction total ever. Click through the gallery to ...
Tags: Blue Belle of Asia, sapphire, jewelry
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has introduced a compatible version of its MR16 LED lamp. Featuring ...
Funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and coordinated by Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany, the Hi-Q-LED project has made advances with green LEDs, diminishing the ‘green ...
Firm will handle marketing and distribution of Kickstarter hit. Vivid Imaginations has picked up the rights to Kickstarter hit Real FX. The firm will handle the marketing and distribution of Real FX in the UK/ROI, France, Benelux, ...
Tags: Vivid Imaginations, Real FX, Toys
Products from Mattel, Hasbro, Jakks, VTech, Character Options, Vivid, LEGO and Spin Master all named in top 12. The DreamToys list has been announced by The Toy Retailers Association. The list is the most accurate predictive list of which ...
Tags: Dream Toys, Toys
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany has launched the surface-mountable Displix Oval, which is claimed to be the first LED with oval light-radiating characteristics for large-screen video walls, gas station price signs and ...
Tags: Mountable LED, Osram
At the Hong Kong International Lighting Fair 2014 (27-30 October), Bridgelux Inc of Livermore, CA, USA (a vertically integrated manufacturer of solid-state light sources for lighting applications) has debuted its new Vero Decor Series Class ...
Tags: Bridgelux LEDs, LED Arrays
At the Vision Congress in Paris (14-15 October), Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany showcased an LED for car headlights with luminance three times that of existing versions, so that a single LED can be used to provide a ...
Tags: Headlight LED, Single-LED
A new world auction record for a fancy vivid pink diamond was set at Sotheby’s Tuesday when an 8.41-carat internally flawless fancy vivid purple-pink diamond sold for $17.8 million. An Asian private buyer bought the diamond, which ...
Tags: pink diamond, Crafts