When choosing between a color LCD display and a monochrome display, there are several variables to consider. These include cost, EOL (end-of-life), power consumption, ability to customize, and appearance or perception of your product.
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We all have important worries in our lives: the sharpness of our iPad display, the need for a light in the dishwasher, renewing our kitchen because of fashion reasons—but still 4 billion people on the planet need to get by on less than $2.00 a day. 

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Last January, Stefano Marzano was appointed Chief Design Officer at Electrolux, a new role leading all design-related competencies in the group. 

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BSH is introducing the new Bosch Filtrino water heater on European markets.

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In May 2010, the Chinese government announced their intention to establish a certification scheme for China RoHS. Most recently, the Implementation Rules of Voluntary Certification on the Pollution Control of Electronic Information Products was adopted on 26 August and entered into law on Nov. 1, 2011. After publishing its authorized certification body and testing laboratories list, China's RoHS Voluntary Certification is estimated to be officially launched in the first half of 2012. As soon as the voluntary scheme is established, European export companies may well be asked by Chinese buyers to provide their Chinese approved RoHS certificate.

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John Spovieri, editor in chief of our sister magazine, Assembly, recently had the opportunity to meet with Jack McDougle of the Council on Competitiveness, and keynote speaker at the upcoming Tech Manufacturer Expo, about the current state of U.S. manufacturing, and how it might get back on track.

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Sometime around 1920, so my grandmother said, it was believed that everything that could be invented had been. An explosion of consumer goods in that decade had made everything from telephones to toaster ovens to vacuum cleaners and automatic washing machines-things nobody had even heard of a few decades earlier-must-own items for every respectable household.
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Welcome to the growing world of mobility where people want to manage and control their home and apartment systems remotely, conveniently, easily through iPhones, iPads, Droids, laptops, desktops.
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Electronic home system contractors and utility observers believe that architectures which enable innovation and efficiency must include consumer-controlled energy controls and networks. Such approaches generate benefits from dynamic pricing and energy information derived from smart meter data, Web-enabled thermostats, in-home displays and other devices.
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Electronic system contractors who sell, install, and maintain a diversity of home systems say that today – and into the near future, there will be a blending of wired and wireless inside of homes and among appliances, subsystems, control panels, and mobile smartphones.
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