LG continues to tease the features in the upcoming G8 ThinQ smartphone-- with the next feature involving the fact the smartphone produced audio through the display through the addition of Cystal Sound OLED (CSO) technology.
Developed in-house by LG, CSO is a technology already used by the company to produce TVs able to produce surround sound despite lacking actual speakers. To do so, CSO embeds a audio system into the OLED panel. The screen acts as the speaker membrane, while exciters dotted around vibrate in order to produce sound.
“Not only are shipments on the increase, but we’re also seeing a rise in the ASP,” the analyst says. “As a result, last year’s global retail value exceeded $19 billion, equating to a 17% increase in value, outstripping the increase in shipments by some way. This price rise is largely thanks to increasing demand for smartwatches and a parallel stagnation of activity trackers and sports watches, plus a declining interest in basic fitness devices.”
The Geospatial Environmental Online (GEO) 2.0 system update affects drones in 13 European countries already covered by the original GEO system, as well as 19 more countries previously lacking in advanced geofencing. According to the company, GEO reflects the actual safety risks posed when flying drones around sensitive facilities, while being more flexible in lower-risk areas.
According to Onkyo, Dolby Atmos and DTS:X bring 3D audio to any speaker configuration, with metadata transposing sound origin within a scene to a corresponding positioning within the listening space. The TX-SR393 offers a 3.2.2-channel solution to native Dolby Atmos and DTS:X object-based playback, while the TX-SR494 offers 5.2.2 channels. Meanwhile Dolby Surround and DTS Neural:X technologies upmix legacy soundtracks for playback through any speaker layout, including those with height channels, for more spatially realistic audio.
The two projectors use 1-chip DLP technology. The SP2080HD is specified at 4000-lumens at 1920×1080 resolution and a high 32000:1 contrast ratio, while the SP1081HD offers 1080p resolution, 3800 lumens and 28500:1 contrast. Both can be used in any space, and promise vivid and accurate colours on many surfaces and virtually any light using BrilliantColour technology.
