DC Rainmaker noticed that Wahoo Fitness is adding a $50 surcharge to orders of its new $199.99 TRACKR Radar, but only if you live in the US where the de minimis exception has been repealed. The same order placed in Europe for the made in China device suffers no such “service charge” and shipping is free and twice as fast.
LG Display’s 100ppi automotive stretchable display can “turn every interior space into a display,” including the center fascia area where it can expand by up to 50 percent to transform into raised buttons and dials. “When the screen is touched, the previously flat display flexibly expands and protrudes touch buttons, making it easy to operate even while driving,” says the company. It doesn’t say how much it’ll cost to repair.
Per The New York Times:
When big law firms attacked by President Trump decided to make a deal with him rather than fight, many did so because their leaders feared that clients would abandon a firm caught on the administration’s bad side.
Now that logic may be getting less compelling.
Everyone hates a tourist except businesses that rely upon their free spending. The 14 percent downtick in March aligns with several countries issuing travel advisories after their citizens were harassed or detained by US immigration officials. “The US is now running an annual $50 billion travel trade deficit — a sharp reversal from our historical surplus in travel exports,” according to the US Travel Association.
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This highly efficient heat pump improves upon a winning but niche formula.
Rival LG said it first, now Samsung says it might relocate manufacturing of its Visual Display and Digital Appliance business units. ”[We] plan to minimize the impact of tariffs by ... relocating production of some volumes for VD and DA businesses, using our global manufacturing bases, if necessary,” said CFO Park Soon-cheol.
According to Nikkei, most of the TVs Samsung sells in the US are made in Mexico, though it also has a production unit in California. The company makes home appliances like refrigerators, washers, and driers in South Carolina and Mexico.
[asia.nikkei.com]
The company’s Zero Connect Box has trickled down from its 2023 flagship to the new QNED9MA TV. The Mini LED television is available in 65- ($1,799.99), 75- (2,299.99), and 86-inch ($3,499.99) models. That’s not cheap, but it’s 10x less than you would have paid to get that zero-latency wireless audio and video tech when first introduced .
The S2 costs up to 60 percent more, but it’s safer and can be cycled 1,000 times before battery life starts degrading.
The New York Times explores the likelihood that synthetic dyes will be phased out of US “food” production.
