The gap between the grid and portable electronics, in short, closed long ago.
Several such applications would be enabled by high-performance visibly transparent photovoltaic (PV) devices, including building-integrated photovoltaics and integrated PV chargers for portable electronics.
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But the two sides can agree on this: Congress should mandate that FM radio receivers be built into cell phones, PDAs, and other portable electronics.
The package comes with an AC adapter, USB cable, stereo headphones and one of those generic pouches portable electronics makers are always so eager to give out.
The market for handheld and portable electronics is sizzling hot.
From the pictures, it looks like their hardware is still too big to fit in portable electronics (pictured at right, one of their Bluetooth modules), but that might just be for test purposes.
TI's bq51050B is the industry's first Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) 1.1 Qi-compliant wireless power receiver with integrated direct battery charger, and enables faster, more efficient charging of smartphones, wireless keyboards and other portable electronics.
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In announcing the winners of what it billed as the "world's largest high school research competition, " Intel cited Khare for recognizing "the crucial need for energy-efficient storage devices" as the world rapidly adopts portable electronics.
Gadget fatigue popped up in other ways too: Some execs wanted a single remote for all of their home entertainment devices, while others wanted a power source that would work with all of their portable electronics.
"These results open the potential for visibly transparent polymer solar cells as add-on components of portable electronics, smart windows and building-integrated photovoltaics and in other applications, " said study leader Yang Yang, a UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, who also is director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).
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"Providing the content that consumers want is the key to customer satisfaction, " said Stewart Katz, Vice President of Portable Media Electronics for Haier America.
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We intend to continue this legacy and bring to market the next generation of 'must have' portable, personal electronics that enhance the lives of consumers worldwide.
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It also produces custom analog and logic products, as well as chips used to manage power in portable devices like handheld electronics and power tools.
Sony is planning to launch a new handheld gaming device by the end of this year, which will act as a successor to its PlayStation Portable, the Japanese electronics giant has announced.
He sent the Soviets thousands of VCRs, microwaves, TVs, portable tape players and other electronics goods from his Manhattan retail store, Joy-Lud Co.
As a result, the company has been looking past its longtime rival as it talks up fresh efforts to crack the market for everything from ultra-portable handheld computers to consumer electronics (see: "Intel Vows To Rise Again").
The company has been looking past its longtime rival as it talks up fresh efforts to crack the market for everything from ultra-portable handheld computers to consumer electronics (see "Intel Vows To Rise Again") and shifts from reconquering its core markets to finding fresh opportunities.
At the electronics store, dry batteries and portable stoves are sold out.
Ematic is a leader in portable media and value tablets offering high quality consumer electronics at an affordable price.
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Beyond that is the upcoming PlayStation Portable, or PSP, from Japan's electronics and entertainment giant Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ), which should reach stores in time for Christmas 2004.
But there are alternatives beyond the smartphone and nearly every camera maker showed a portable, Flip-like video camera at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.
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Like Jobs, MacDonald was a master of many eras: His company introduced the first portable radio, the wireless remote control and became synonymous with consumer electronics innovation.
That ethos has spawned a universe of connected portable devices, which some analysts have dubbed a 2.0 movement in consumer electronics.
Lilliputian Systems also announced today that Nectar Mobile Power System has been awarded the prestigious Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Innovations Award for Design and Engineering in the Portable Power category.
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One electronics manufacturer, for example, used his crew to test-market new packaging for a portable CD player.
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