Digital Technology Enters Golf Game

May 30, 2011 | Marco Attard | Gadgets for GeeksPDFPrintE-mail

Sensolutions hopes the SensoGlove-- its first digital golf glove-- will improve its clients' golf game by correcting their so-called "golf club death grip".

SensoGloveThe company also announces it now has partnerships with 20 golf schools and PGA professional instructors worldwide, who'll all be using the SensoGlove in teaching the game Mark Twain memorably describes as "a good walk spoiled".

The SensoGlove carries sensors to measure users' grip pressure 80 times per second, while a 1.2" sweat-proof LED monitor provides feedback and warnings should grip pressure exceed target levels. The glove can even tell which individual fingers are gripping too tightly.

Made of cabretta leather, the SensoGlove will apparently help anyone improve their golf swing. Failing that, one can always quote another famous writer-- A.A. Milne of 'Winnie the Pooh' fame this time-- who said “Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.”

Go SensoGlove

“Give Me More, Give Me More!”

May 30, 2011 | Peter Weedfald | Comms and InternetPDFPrintE-mail

Peter Weedfaldby Peter Weedfald, President, Gen One Ventures

There are a multitude of dramatic shifts in our lives as smart products and applications shrink our planet, change the way our personal and business worlds engage and simultaneously reconfigure how we business react and or play together...

...I personally define the Internet as “Darwin on Speed” because the Internet is clearly the fastest unionization of instant push and pull throughout the entire galaxy. The truth is, it is the low ceiling consumer content clouds, the hyper-fast tectonic platforms of hermetically sealed applications, the low cost, fatty storage lockers and the kinetic global traffic routing that is changing and enriching our business and personal lives...

As the song says and surely the words must be about our instant, content rich lives: “Yeah… give me more, give me more.”

...So, let me take you down from the very busy, “cloud-e” (“e” for e-commerce) skies of business progress to be a bit more consumer product centric and specific. ..

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SAISHO Brand for Sale

May 23, 2011 | Bob Snyder | Retailer NewsPDFPrintE-mail

Under contract to Dixons Store Group,  IP firm Metis Partners is looking for offers for Saisho and Miranda made before 4pm GMT on Thursday 26 May.

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Saisho: Created by Dixons Retail Plc in 1982, Saisho has become a household name in UK for multimedia players, dictation equipment, radios, hi-fi systems, docking systems, televisions (small screen flat panel), DVD players, telephones, fax machines and headphones. IP assets for sale include 16 registered trademarks protecting the Saisho brand and rights in the associated Goodwill in Saisho.

Miranda: Established over 50 years ago Miranda is a globally recognised in relation to camera and photographic equipment. It was originally created by the Japanese Orion Camera Company who used the name for their camera products. In 1981 the brand and associated trademarks were acquired by Dixons Retail Plc who continued to use Miranda to brand a number of cameras and other related products including tripods, flashguns and even MP3 players. IP assets included in the sale include 20 registered trade marks and rights in the associated Goodwill in Miranda.

Dixons has four other brands: Logik, Sandstrom, Goji and Advent – the computing brand. Another brand, Matsui, was rebranded as Currys Essentials as part of the brand changes.

Go Metis Partners and Dixons Brand sale

Portugal's Rádio Popular Joins EP

May 23, 2011 | Marco Attard | Retailer NewsPDFPrintE-mail

RadioPopularRádio Popular–Electrodomésticos,  the Portuguese retail company for home and consumer electronics, IT and telecom, will become a member of ElectronicPartner International.

Family-led Rádio Popular, founded in 1977, currently operates 38 branches in Portugal with an average size of 2000 square meters. The annual turnover of Rádio Popular reached 190 million euro in 2009.

Rádio Popular benefits from  as the only strategic partner of ElectronicPartner International on the Portuguese market and EP gets to add Portugal to its pan-European roster of countries where it is represented.

Photo:  Ilídio Silva, president and one of the owners of Rádio Popular (left) and Dr. Joerg Ehmer, spokesman for the Executive Directors of ElectronicPartner

Go ElectronicPartner

Vendors Look at 3D, East for TV Rebound

May 23, 2011 | Marco Attard | TV - Display - ProjectorsPDFPrintE-mail

With European TV demand faltering due to the debt crisis, Reuters reports LCD makers hope one rather large territory will pull a sagging flat-screen industry out of its year-long downcycle-- China.

sAMSUNGBoth LG and Samsung hope the industry will start recovering a little bit. Or, in the least, that TV prices will stop falling due to inventory oversupply.

DisplaySearch forecasts China is set to overtake the US as the world's biggest LCD TV market, taking over 21% of the global market this year. In comparison, growth in Europe remains weak.

Meanwhile OEMs also put their market-fuelling hopes on 3DTV.

LG says its 3D panel shipments are exceeding its expectations, and make up 15% of its total TV panel shipments for Q2 2011-- even if it still has to win over any major TV makers.

Analysts forecast 3DTV will account for 11% of WW flat-screen TV sales this year, with sales reaching 23m units.

Go LG, Samsung See Depressed LCD Market Turning (Reuters)

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