| Samsung steps up heat dissipation in LCD TVs
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd announced what it touts as the industry's 'first' thermally-enhanced chip-on-film (TECOF) package for the display driver IC (DDI) used in large-screen, high-resolution LCD TVs. The DDI package improves thermal heat dissipation by 20 percent over a conventional COF package, allowing the DDI to last longer and operate with greater reliability. A typical DDI requires at least 15V of power to drive large, high-resolution LCD TV panels operating on broad frequency spectrums to reproduce high-speed video images. This generates greater heat for the DDI, which then causes reliability problems. Samsung has developed a new material for the thin metal tape component that has optimal properties to effectively maximize heat dissipation. The company has also developed a new automated process for attaching the metal tape to the COF package.
Win the Roto-Rooter Pimped Out John
If you are the type that likes to multitask whilst making your odorific deposits Roto-Rooter has the perfect throne for all the geeky kings and queens out there. Dubbed the Pimped Out John this potty has more cool gear that you probably have in your living room. You will be pretty impressed by the array of features that has been grafted onto this toilet including a 20 LCD TV, Xbox, DVD player, iPod toilet paper dock, laptop and the coolest part a real life kegerator with beer tap. .
Gonzaga suspends Heytvelt, Davis
SPOKANE -- Most of the players had cleared out of the plush Gonzaga locker room. In an adjoining room, on an HDTV, the Kentucky-Florida game was being shown. And on the crawl underneath, the news of the day was repeated, again and again: "Gonzaga players Josh Heytvelt and Theo Davis suspended ... " The age of innocence at Gonzaga, be it real or imagined, died here Saturday, when the news spread that Heytvelt, the ultra-gifted sophomore big man from Clarkston, and Toronto freshman forward Davis were busted late Friday night in nearby Cheney with a small amount of marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms. That last allegation could constitute a felony. Police said they stopped Heytvelt's SUV for defective tail lights. So between the invitation to the cops to stop the vehicle -- malfunctioning lights -- and the 11:42 p.m.
Plasma TV Sales Underpins Panasonic Sales, Profit Growth in 3Q of ...
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. has announced its consolidated financial results for the third quarter (3Q) of FY2006 (October to December 2006). Sales grew 2% year-on-year (YoY) to ¥2.4368 trillion, while operating profit also increased 5% YoY to ¥135.8 billion. Despite the advancing price degradation in its product fields mainly thin-panel TVs, the company achieved the increased profit through such efforts as streamlining. While the overall thin-panel TV industry suffered from rapid price degradation over the year-end sales season, Matsushita could ensure a profit because "Our plasma TVs' price degradation was milder than the industry's average" (Tetsuya Kawakami, Executive Vice President, Matsushita), among other reasons. Although the domestic thin-panel TV industry's average price degradation and that for the company's products were both 26%, Matsushita succeeded in keeping pricing for its products from degrading no more than 22% on a global basis, compared to the worldwide industry's average of 25%.
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