Technology

  Bloomberg Here are the requirements that every good pair of travel headphones needs to meet: They must be small enough to fit in a carry-on, they must drown out ambient airplane noise (and crying babies), the batteries must last long enough for a trans-ocean flight, and they must have killer sound. Achieving all that is easier said than done. ...

    Emirates Business To advance the essential functions of its home appliances, LG Electr- onics (LG) is set to deliver an unparalleled level of performance and convenience into the home with Deep Learning technology to be unveiled at CES® 2017. LG Deep Learning allows home appliances to better understand its users, making lives simpler and more enjoyable. Using smart ...

  Bloomberg Apple Inc.’s quest to adopt advanced displays for its next-generation iPhone hinges on a single supplier in the Japanese countryside. Canon Tokki Corp., surrounded by rice fields in the city of Mitsuke in Niigata prefecture, has a near monopoly on the machines capable of making screens with organic light-emitting diodes, which enable sharp, vibrant displays that use less ...

  Relaxnews With only a few days to go before the international Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas (January 5-8, 2017), South Korean manufacturer LG has caused a stir with a surprising bluetooth speaker that ‘hovers’ in midair. No, it’s not just a vision statement but an actual object. LG plans to mesmerize visitors to the next CES with ...

  Relaxnews E-commerce giant Amazon has revealed the best-selling products across Amazon this year, boasting record-setting sales of its Echo gadget line. According to the company, customers “gifted a record-setting number of devices from the Amazon Echo family, with sales up over 9x compared to last year’s holiday season and millions of Alexa devices sold worldwide this year”. The Echo ...

  Relaxnews Samsung Malaysia released an image via the social media network, with water droplets which read “IT ALL BEGINS WITH A. HOLD YOUR BREATH” — hinting that the Galaxy A(2017) will be able to survive being dropped in water. If the teaser rings true, the Galaxy A(2017) will boast an Ingress Protection rating of IP68, and will follow in ...

  Bloomberg Nintendo Co.’s debut game for smartphones is turning out to be anything but super. Since its release, Super Mario Run has shot to the top of download charts in more than 100 countries as tens of millions celebrated the iconic video game character’s arrival on iPhones. Yet problems emerged almost immediately, with thousands vigorously complaining that the three ...

  Helsinki / AFP On the crowded morning metro in Helsinki, silence prevails. Everyone is hunched over their smartphone screens, reading the news, checking emails or watching videos. A loud “yeah!” breaks the quiet, along with delighted screech from a toddler whose mother has just handed him her smartphone to calm him down with a video. Finland, once a world ...

  Relaxnews From January 11 to 14, 2017, the Royal Academy of Art in London will present the first ever 3D-printed artworks in virtual reality, produced in collaboration with HTC Vive. Artists from the Royal Academy and its alumni will create artwork using the virtual reality platform HTC Vive, creations that visitors to the exhibition will be able to experience ...

  Gunpo/ AFP A giant South Korean-built manned robot that walks like a human but makes the ground shake under its weight has taken its first baby steps. Designed by a veteran of science fiction blockbusters, the four-metre-tall (13-foot), 1.5 ton Method-2 towers over a room on the outskirts of Seoul. The hulking human-like creation bears a striking resemblance to ...