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Driving North-west out of Seoul towards Paju, home of one of LG's major display panel facilities, the crippling city traffic soon thins out.Here the highway runs beside the river, and the country's car companies take advantage of the light ...

So the world is undergoing financial meltdown, and most consumer electronics companies are wringing their hands, battening down the hatches, lashing themselves to the masts and preparing to weather the storm. So why are the guys in LG's Twin ...

Yes, it's a telephone.But not just any telephone: this is the Fuji-type phone which in 1935 started Fujitsu. Which is why it now has pride of place in the subterranean Technology Hall at the company's HQ in Kawasaki, which I visited a few days ...

 Friday:- Over the border into mainland China to visit the Shinhint Group factory in Chang An, Guangdong, where NXT's Balanced Mode Radiator drive units are made.We're driven from Hong Kong by Ernest Ip, Shinhint's COO, and entering China ...

Anyone who tells you that two-channel audio is dead, and home cinema is the new black, only needs wander into one of the several consumer electronics stores stacked above each other in the Yau Shing Commercial Centre here in Kowloon.Step out of ...

Worked out what it is yet? No, it's not a UFO over Causeway Bay here in Hong Kong, but a floating speaker from JVC, designed to deliver bathtime music. It has a built-in MP3 player and amplifier, and at its heart is a a speaker driver from NXT. ...

This little unit could revolutionise the way you think about iPod speaker systems. At first glance it looks like a conventional iPod dock, and you wonder why Yamaha didn't simply build it into its new PDX-50 speaker system (below), on the way for ...

Piano tuning in hard hats may seem extreme, but when you're stringing a concert grand and working up a tension equivalent to 20 tons, it pays to be careful. It's just one of the things we discovered during our behind the scenes tour of Yamaha ...

Last night, I attended a recorded panel discussion organised by speaker manufacturer B&W. The  discussion was about surround sound and its importance to listeners, and it will be posted on the B&W website at the beginning of October. ...

 There are many things you’d expect of a consumer electronics company celebrating its 90th anniversary – but changing its name and predicting a radical reduction in the range of products it may eventually sell aren’t necessarily on the list. ...