Matsushita Electric Industrial Co (same company who manufactured faulty BL5C battery for Nokia) which is best known for its Panasonic brand as developed a 150-inch plasma display TV panel which is the world’s biggest plasma TV. A prototype model of the television will be displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show which is going to be held next month in the US. The advantage of such big plasma will be that an actual size image of human being can be displayed making movies look more realistic.

Vividaudio plans to launch a new HiFi speaker ‘G1 GIYA’ featuring unusual design at upcoming CES 2008 in Las Vegas USA. These designer speakers are more of a lifestyle product and not for audio enthusiasts. Regarding the sound quality, geeks apart everyone else should find it very satisfactory. Speakers also double as a decorative piece.

Networking problems may require extensive maintenance and having a remote management solution is always a good. Uplogix manufactures these remote management solutions which make the administration and fixing problems an easy task. This company has been for quite some time and gained popularity, you can read about MTTR and know more about this company also. Their products use strongest security techniques. What makes these remote management solutions in demand is the ability of fixing problem quickly and getting everything back to running condition which is very important in networking.

3S Digital expects to unveil 55-inch 120Hz full HD LCD ‘XEVA’ at the upcoming CES 2008 in Las Vegas, USA. The XEVA series features the company’s special image technology ‘XEVA’ algorithm and is available from 20.1-inch to 55-inch.

Company will also bring its new TV board, which supports LodgeNet/ ONCOMMNND’ function and ‘Pro:Idiom DRM’ content encryption technology, as well as new set-top box supporting so-called ‘time-machine’ and IP network functions at once.

Texas Instruments (www.ti.com) introduced the industry’s smallest (SC70 package) low-power, resistor-programmable temperature switch ‘TMP300’ that operates over the largest supply voltage range.

The TMP300 allows for simple temperature monitoring and control. The tiny size of the device makes it an attractive option for power supply systems, DC/DC modules, thermal monitoring and electronic protection systems.

The TMP300 features a trip point that is set by adding a single, inexpensive resistor, and the open-drain output can control a power switch or provide a processor interrupt. A separate pin on the device provides an analog output (10mV/C) that can serve as a testing point or can be used in temperature-compensation loops. With a wide supply voltage range of 1.8V to 18V, the TMP300 allows for simple thermal monitoring without requiring an MCU/DSP. This lets the device take advantage of existing power buses in numerous applications, from battery-powered handhelds to industrial control systems. Further, the device’s low power of 110uA (max) extends battery life.

The analog output measures temperature with +/-3C accuracy (max) and the temperature switch has +/-4C switch accuracy over a temperature range of -40C to 125C. Hysteresis of the TMP300 is pin programmable to two states of either 5C or 10C.

The TMP300 is available now from TI and its authorized distributors in a SC70 package and is priced at 1.00(USD) each in 100-piece quantities. It will be introduced in a SOT23 package during 1Q 2008.

Toshiba announced that they will mass produce solid state drives ranging in sizes of between 32 gigabytes to 128 gigabytes from next year. These drives will be in 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch sizes and will be launched in May. Solid state drivers are fast, quiet and currently extremely expensive. So far they have only been seen in portable devices like tablet and Ultra-Mobile sizes PCs. Samsung Electronics and Sandisk are already make solid-state drives.