Flexible Displays, Wireless Charging, Video Gear Among Pepcom Standouts
Wireless charging, flexible displays, headphones and video gear were prominent at Pepcom’s Holiday Spectacular event in New York Thursday. Mophie showed sub-$100 portable Qi docks and portable power station products. Its Charge Stream Pad+ has fast charge capability for Apple…
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(7.5 watts) and Samsung (9 watt) devices, sending the fastest charge each can handle vs. the 5-watt output of a standard Qi charger, it said. In its wireless power station line, Mophie showed a 10,000 mAh version ($99) and 6,040 mAh model ($79) for portable Qi charging. Mophie spokesman Jeff DuBois said the company is looking to diversify its wireless charging beyond Qi and is studying “point-to-point” options. Products in the queue for 2019 will likely all be contact-based, DuBois said, but the company is looking long term at other options that don’t require the exact coil positioning of the inductive Qi technology. On whether Mophie is working on a product similar to Apple’s yet-to-surface AirPower pad, teased at the company’s September 2017 event, DuBois said such a product is “easier said than done” because of the need for strategic placement of coils on the pad. Elsewhere, flexible display company Royole showed what it called the thinnest display to date, measuring .01 mm. A representative demonstrated the 7.5-inch OLED display on a top hat to show one of the more unusual applications for technology typically targeted for phones and car dashboards. The company began production in Shenzhen, China, in June, and has announced capacity of 50 million units a year, a spokesman said. Royole earmarked 2018 limited-edition embedded units for purchase via the company website, he said, at $899 on a T-shirt and $1,399 on a top hat/T-shirt combo; built-in Wi-Fi enables a wearer to send photos or videos to the bendable screen, he said. The company also makes headphones and a smart writing pad. Sengled extended its LED smart bulb line with a Wi-Fi version ($20) to join its ZigBee-based lineup, said smart lighting Product Manager Robert Tang. Wi-Fi Bulbs are voice-controllable via Alexa and Google Assistant for functions including changing color, turning on and off, and dimming, he said. The company’s ZigBee-based Element Plus ($41) tunable bulbs can transition from 2700 color temperature to 6500, he said. ViewSonic demo'd its 1.8-pound 854 x 480 DLP projector. The M1 ($299-$399) has a 5.8 x 5-inch footprint and measures an inch tall, has a 40-inch throw distance, projects up to a 100-inch image and offers six hours of battery life, a spokeswoman said. The unit's Harman Kardon speaker logo dwarfed the projector’s tiny ViewSonic tag.