Why the Refurbished Electronics Market is Thriving
A perfect storm is brewing for consumer electronics marketplace Back Market. The items it specializes in — refurbished smartphones, PCs, tablets and the like — are in high demand as professionals and students work from home during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Set-Top Boxes Evolve from Media-Consumption Device to Smart-Home Hub The evolution of the set-top box into a true hub of the smart home is being driven by three forces: For full article
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Enhancing the fourth screen: TDDI expands automotive display options It’s been called the fourth screen — the last “unconquered” screen in our daily lives. With the average driver spending close to an hour a day in their car, For full article
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Egil Eyes AV: Pandemic Edition | Interacting With Your Stuff | What’s the Difference I’m Brian Santo, EE Times editor-in-chief. You’re listening to EE Times On Air, and this is your Weekly Briefing for the week ending June 19th. For full article
READ MORE >The Big Bend Theory And Beyond - Are We There Yet?
In a recent article, I discussed the factors driving the consolidation in the automotive LiDAR industry. I also presented 4 areas ripe for investments, one of which was solid-state LiDAR. The focus of this article is on assessing the approaches and maturity of LiDAR that uses solid-state scanning techniques for beam steering and enables efficient use of photons in space and time.
READ MORE >Lumotive Employs Innovative Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces to Enhance LiDAR Performance
Lumotive recently announced the first of two in a series of 3D-sensing products that utilize Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces (LCM). With samples available in the fourth quarter of this year, the Lumotive X20 and Z20 LiDAR systems target the automotive and industrial automation markets, respectively. The X20 (extended range) and Z20 (lower range) originate from Lumotive’s X10 prototype of the same architecture.
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