But all of these, by the time they get to electronics, will be absolutely standard off the shelf components.
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Pair that with Powermat receivers in your electronics to get a wireless transmission of energy to your device.
Toshiba sees DVD as a golden opportunity to get back in the home electronics game.
Yeah, we get it, flexible electronics -- sans application -- are about as exciting as the circuitry under your keyboard.
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It will become still more so when the likes of Ito-Yokado, a retailer, and Sony, a consumer-electronics group, get into the business.
Rather than limiting itself to Twitter, Integrate PR partnered with local green electronics recycling business Compucycle to get the message out via longer blog posts, and they connected with other local businesses looking to recycle their own electronics responsibly and engage the broader Houston community in doing so.
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The group designed and launched a balloon kitted out with a Nikon Coolpix and custom built electronics, intending to get some shots at 30, 000 feet.
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The other major electronics manufacturers smelled an opportunity to get in on that action.
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Any of those can get awkward, so play it safe and stick to electronics, food and wine, and desk or travel accessories.
"We want to take the lessons learned from electronics and semiconductor industries (about pollution) and get ahead of some of these problems, " said John Smirnow, vice president for trade and competitiveness at the nearly 500-member Solar Energy Industries Association.
The next product to get the axe, analysts say, will likely come in consumer electronics as well.
So second-tier electronics players may have to decide whether they want to get bigger through acquisitions or exit the business, because sticking with current strategies is a prescription for flat to declining profits.
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The US number for what electronics assembly labour gets paid is just that, what they get paid.
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Get ready for hordes of shoppers to hit Best Buy and other discount electronics retailers, creating new mountains of e-waste as they upgrade to an HD format.
Those are dedicated devices like the Magellan RoadMate that the consumer can buy in a consumer electronics outlet or club warehouse, put into his car and get up and running very quickly.
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Employees even went above and beyond most corporate volunteer programs programs and pounded pavement to get the word out on college campuses, another perfect place for finding recyclable electronics.
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Expand will be a unique opportunity to hear from your favorite consumer electronics luminaries on stage, talk directly with Engadget editors, and get your hands on some of the latest and greatest new devices at our show floor exhibition.
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Consumers who want to use such products can't expect to get them for free and have complete privacy, Loo Wee Teck, head of consumer electronics research for Euromonitor International, told tech blog ZDNet.
"We have worked hand in hand with Hollywood to get some form of broadcast protection, " says Dave Arland, a spokesperson for Thomson Consumer Electronics (nyse: TMS - news - people ).
Garmin (nasdaq: GRMN - news - people ) says the iQue will be available in the second quarter of this year and, judging from the response to it at last week's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, there will be a lot of people eager to get their hands on it.
The firms showcased their televisions at last January's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, but until now neither company had managed to get a product to market.
PS3 is a litmus test for Sir Howard's turnaround effort, one of the aims of which is to get Sony's various divisions to co-operate more fully. (A spat between its electronics and content units left the field open for Apple's iPod.) The company insists that despite recent problems such as the battery recall, the turnaround is going well behind the scenes.
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