Tag archive: Philips

Philips and chemical company BASF have recently teamed up to create an OLED concept for your car that would also function as a high-tech window when switched off, according to a recent article in PhysOrg. While this isn’t the first we have heard of transparent display technology, it’s certainly the first time we have heard of applying it to automobiles by utilizing OLEDs — although GM's Windows of Opportunity project comes close.… Read More

Everybody's got a foot in the wireless HDMI game these days, and as of New York's CE Week 2011, Philips is no different. The company used the event yesterday to unveil the Philips Wireless HD Net Connect, a $300 transmitter and receiver that you can connect to any notebook (or desktop, for that matter) with an HDMI port and instantly stream hi-def video to any TV an HDMI port. At $300, it's certainly not the cheapest option out… Read More

After 80 years, Philips is getting out of the television business, entering into a long-term partnership with Hong Kong's TPV Technology to form a new company that will develop and market televisions under the Philips brand. The new joint venture will be 70 percent owned by TPV, with Philips controlling the remaining 30 percent with an option to unload it in as soon as five years. In exchange, Philips will receive royalties of at least… Read More

Philips unloaded a bunch of mobile products at CES last week. Philips says its new portable product lineup strives to it easier and more enjoyable for consumers to work out, watch TV and movies, and listen to music, whether they are at home or taking their entertainment on the road. “Consumers increasingly want seamless, simple connections between life at home, at work, and everywhere else they go, and Philips is committed to delivering the… Read More

Environmental watchdog group Greenpeace has released the 14th update to its Guide to Greener Electronics, in which it ranks major electronics and computer manufacturers in a set of environmentally-related criteria, including the sorts of toxic chemicals that turn up in their products, how the companies handle e-waste and product recycling, and the companies' plans to green up their operations. In the past, Greenpeace has slammed consumer… Read More

Philips Research has announced that it has developed a new color e-paper technology that the company believes could take product personalization and functionality to whole new levels. The technology doesn't require backlighting—it looks like conventional paint—but thanks to controllable layers of colored ink, can shift its color and appearance in real time. The e-paper can shift between colors, control the saturation of… Read More

Fall is coming. And along with crisp days, beautiful foliage and the promise of eating-related holidays, the annual tilt away from the sun also brings with it some less desirable consequences: shorter days. For those of us who live and die by the alarm clock, darker mornings mean an even bigger struggle to throw back the sheets and face the day. Philips wouldn't be the first company to build an alarm-clock light that simulates dawn… Read More

With stock prices falling and 401Ks crumbling daily, now might seem like a dubious time to go and spring for an oversized high-definition television (HDTV). But here’s the kicker, provided you can afford to liberate some cash from under your mattress: Deals on the sets have never been more enticing. Not only has the pace of technology ensured that top-tier technology has quickly filtered down to budget models. Even as prices were already… Read More

Though we’ve poked fun at thin televisions in the past, we do have to profess finding a certain appeal to paper-thin screens (as long as we’re not the ones paying for them). There’s something about a TV that seems to disappear when you walk by it that really grabs attention – especially with people who are used to owning 300-pound CRTs. The trophy for “World’s Thinnest” seems to trade hands every other month, but we’ve rounded up a few… Read More

The recession is claiming another victim as electronics company Philips announced yesterday that it’s going to be forced to lose 6,000 jobs around the world and halt the share buyback program it only initiated last year. Both its lighting and consumer electronics business had been hit by the economic downturn, chief executive Gerard Kleisterlee said in a statement: "Our fourth-quarter results are a reflection of both the… Read More

Although one would think last week's CES show would have been a great time to announce this product, Philips is starting to take the wraps off its new Cinema 21:9 LCD television, which is designed to let viewers experience movies on screen just as they would in theaters: with a super wide-screen 21:9 aspect ratio. Philips hasn't released specs on the set—those should be coming at the end of February—but the unit will… Read More

At this week's IFA show in Berlin Philips took the wraps off the CinemaOne, which the company says packs all the necessities of a home theater system—plus a CD/DVD player and an iPod dock—into a small, round container…complete with subwoofer. The CinemaOne packs a five-channel amplifier, a 4-inch subwoofer, and digital signal processing that can handle Dolby Digital, MPEG2 multichannel audio that the company saus… Read More

While it may not seem like an important task to some casual computer users, the rest of us feel that making proper backups of important files and computer settings can be a critical, absolutely essential matter of binary life and death. The whole process of backing data up has several key elements, and one of those elements is finding the right backup hard drive. Most people will select an external hard drive for their backups.… Read More

Audio equipment is a crock of pretentious technical jargon, a pile of useless black boxes, a plague of blinking lights, a waste of space, a needless drain on your household income—unless it brings you closer to music. Then it’s form of nutrition, a balm for the multiple beatings we take in our daily lives, maybe even a gateway to the soul. If I felt otherwise, I’d have to give up this audio-critic stuff and find another way to make a living,… Read More

Philips Electronics announced today plans to acquire Digital Lifestyle Outfitters (DLO), a popular maker of accessories for devices like the Apple iPod. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed and the deal is expected to close in the second quarter of this year. DLO, with operations in Charleston, South Carolina and Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina, will be folded into the Peripherals & Accessories business unit of Philips’… Read More