Once-isolated calls for at least a partial breakup of the conglomerate have become a chorus, with NBC Universal, appliances and GE Money, the consumer finance unit, emerging as prime candidates for a sale or spinoff.
Universal Appliances (UAL), a company controlled by Johnson Ko, and the U.S.' LSI Logic have developed a set-top box equipped with an electronic payment system.
If 3D printers are to be taken more seriously as a universal home appliance, they need to provide more solutions that are valuable for every home.
Maytag, based in Newton, Iowa, said it was allying with Microsoft to develop appliances based on Universal Plug and Pay standards.
That his invention became subsumed into the larger culture business, to the point that the noise of modernity required constant muting, or that a universal remote could control dozens of home appliances, was for him a source of surprise.
And while she used high-end appliances and furnishings, she stresses that universal design need not be expensive.
Jini, the work of Bill Joy, a Sun co-founder and one of the fathers of Java, promises to allow computing appliances to connect instantly into a universal network.
Household appliances, utilities, and transportation facilities are increasingly universal.
Economical D.I.Y. alternatives for the rest of us, including partial home-automation devices like universal remotes for entertainment systems and devices that control appliances remotely, have largely fallen short of the home-automation dream.
Straight out of the box it is: a security and video-call camera (night vision and 360' rotation); a universal remote for TV, air conditioner, and other smart appliances; online radio and music streamer.
In this research, the flexural test was performed by a Z2.5 ZwickiLine Universal Testing Machine (Zwick/Roell, Germany) with a customized four-point appliance (Fig. 2b), which consists of two loading pins and two supporting pins.
