On CE - For Dealers, Distributors and OEMs of Consumer Electronics throughout EMEA

Aperion promises "Hi-Fi via wifi" with the ARIS-- a wireless speaker using the AirPlay-style Play To streaming feature sitting inside Windows 7.

The ARIS connects to your customers' home networks through either wifi or ethernet. It is DLNA certified and offers 100W RMS of power.

Handling wired streaming is an axuliary jack at the back of the speaker.

Inside the single-piece brushed aluminium enclosure are x6 speakers (x4 powered drives and x2 passive radiators) with x3 sound modes (natural, bass boost and enchanced stereo).

For wireless control, Aperion offers an ARIS music app (for Android or iOS), while the speaker is also compatible with most other DLNA apps.

Go Aperion ARIS Wireless Speaker System

As customers buy smartphones instead digital cameras, Samsung and other Asian CE vendors hope to turn the business around with mirrorless high-end cameras.

"Our low-end compact camera offerings will gradually be reduced, as we are now concentrating on the mirrorless segment," Samsung head of Digital Imaging Han Myoung-sup tells the Wall Street Journal.

The company is also ending SLR production, following its failure to make a dent in a market the the Canon/Nikon duopoly dominates.

Panasonic reaches record losses in 2011, following fellow Japanese TV makers Sony and Sharp-- -$9.7 billion, losses the company blames on ailing plasma and LCD TV divisions.

TV, camera and recorder sales are down collectively by 21% Y-o-Y. Projections for 2012 predict TV sales to fall further (from 17.3m in 2011 to 15.5m).

The company also admits making a mistake by investing heavily in LCD and plasma TVs back in 2006, which president Fumio Ohtsubo describes as "...an excessive investment, something which I regret." Ohtsubo's term as Panasonic presidents ends on June 2012.

Adding to the Panasonic deficit are writedowns for the Sanyo Electric unit. The company plans to continue a restructuring process cutting 17000 jobs.

Panasonic will also follow Samsung and LG into large screen OLED HDTV production. The company is also concentrating on selling solar panels, batteries and appliances, especially within developing territories.

Go Panasonic 2011 Annual Results

Sometimes an idea is crazy enough to might actually work-- like the Socialmatic, a concept for an Instagram-powered digital Polaroid camera from Antonio De Rosa.

For those of you not in the know, Instagram is a smartphone camera app for iPhones and Androids. It turns regular digital snaps into "artsy" vintage-style photos, with a number of filters emulating classic film cameras (chiefly Polaroid instant cameras).

The Socialmatic proposal looks fairly interesting-- it suggests the camera should have 2 main lenses (one for main capture, the other for 3D filters, webcam applications and QR code capturing), a touchscreen interface, 16GB of storage and wifi/Bluetooth connectivity.