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Relive Euro Cup’s experience with handy gadgets
MUMBAI: Passion for the sport is what drives all Soccer fans to turn up in huge numbers at the stadium or snuggle up comfortably on the couch to not miss even a second of the game. While not everyone can be lucky enough to witness the craziness live, the experience can be made as real as possible with the following gadgets:
Say Bye to Noise with Sennheiser Wireless Headphones
All soccer fans follow a ‘No Disturbance’ policy when it comes to the game! Well, who wants to be disturbed while your eyes are glued to an interesting game. Thus Sennheiser offers you a wireless aural experience with its Wireless Headphones series – RS 165, RS 175, RS 185 and RS 195. With no cable coming between you and your game, the experience of watching the game while relaxing on your couch becomes real – like you were cheering for your team in the stadium. You get the best interference-free sound, a crystal clear audio experience with highly reliable connectivity, low latency and excellent range! RS 165 – INR 15,990; RS 175 – INR 19,990; RS 185 – INR 27,990 and RS 195 – INR 31,990.
Game Mode ON with the Around YU on YUNICORN
While you are watching your favourite team play, how do you satiate your hunger pangs, or maybe book a cab for your girlfriend? Of course, you can’t miss your match however these mundane tasks need a closure. Worry NOT. Around, an integrated service suite solves all your problems with one touch ( or rather a swipe). When you use Around, you find all your needs in one window, it’s almost like a super-mart for your daily needs. You have a multiple tabs for Taxis, Food, Travel tickets and even health. Around aggregates all major travel operators such as Ola and offline taxi service providers, has an integration with Zomato that helps you order food from neighbouring outlets. So let AROUND take care of your tasks while you get your GAME MODE ON.
Get a stadium-like experience with Micromax’s 50 inch 4K TV
The Micromax 4K TV has everything you could possibly want from a television, including Internet connectivity, smart functionality powered by an Android-based user interface, a long list of connectivity options and a screen that can handle 3840×2160 pixels. So what if you can’t go to France to watch the Euro Cup? Bring the stadium to your home with Micromax’s 50 inch 4K Television to enjoy the Euro Cup 2016.
Access scores faster and watch highlights with no buffering
Opera Max is a data management app that also optimizes data used across all applications on smart phones. Its compression technology helps users get up to 50% more from their data plans, especially on usage of image- and video-heavy apps. If you are following Euro Cup from your mobile device, it’s best to keep Opera Max switched on throughout. You can block all other apps from using data in the foreground as well as background and stay updated with live scores that will load much faster. Catching up on match highlights will also be a breeze because videos will load fast with almost zero buffering – despite your sketchy mobile network speed.
SEOUL: In the eternal battle between gamers demanding lightning-fast refresh rates and professionals craving pixel-perfect clarity, LG Display reckons it has found détente. The South Korean display titan is unveiling the world’s first 27-inch 4K OLED monitor panel that marries an RGB stripe structure with a blistering 240Hz refresh rate—a combination previously thought incompatible, like oil and water or fashion and function.
The breakthrough lies in how the pixels are arranged. RGB stripe structure lines up red, green and blue subpixels in neat rows, banishing the colour bleeding and fringing that plague lesser screens when you park your nose close to the display. It is the difference between reading crisp text and squinting at a rainbow-tinged mess. OLED panels using this method existed before, but they topped out at a sluggish 60Hz—fine for spreadsheets, useless for fragging opponents in first-person shooters.
LG Display’s engineering wizardry changes the game. By cranking the refresh rate to 240Hz whilst maintaining that pristine RGB stripe layout, the company has produced a panel that works equally well for colour-critical design work and twitchy gaming sessions. Better still, the panel incorporates Dynamic Frequency & Resolution technology, letting users toggle between ultra-high-definition at 240Hz and full-HD at a frankly ludicrous 480Hz. That is fast enough to make your eyeballs sweat.
The specs are suitably impressive: 160 pixels per inch for exceptional detail, optimised performance for Windows and font-rendering engines, and colour accuracy that should please the Photoshop brigade. LG Display achieved this by boosting the aperture ratio—the percentage of each pixel that actually emits light—and applying what it coyly describes as “various new technologies.” Translation: years of R&D and probably some sleepless nights.
Existing high-end gaming OLED monitors have relied on RGWB structures (which add a white subpixel) or triangular RGB arrangements. Both work, but neither delivers the sharpness that professionals demand. LG Display’s new stripe pattern is tailored specifically for monitor use, a recognition that staring at a screen from two feet away demands different engineering than watching telly from across the room.
The company is betting big on this technology, targeting the high-end monitor market where it already commands roughly 30 per cent of global OLED panel production. Among gaming OLED panels in mass production, LG Display claims world-leading specs across refresh rate, response time and resolution—a trifecta that sounds like marketing bluster until you check the numbers.
“Technology is the foundation of leadership in the rapidly growing OLED monitor market,” says LG Display head of the large display business unit Lee Hyun-woo. He promises to keep pushing “differentiated technologies compared to competitors”—corporate-speak for staying ahead of Chinese rivals snapping at LG’s heels.
The new panel will debut at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, where LG Display plans to woo customers and expand its lineup. Initial rollout targets high-end gaming and professional monitors, the sweet spot where people actually pay premiums for superior screens rather than settling for whatever came with their laptop.
Whether this technology reshapes the monitor market or remains a niche luxury depends on two things: pricing and production scale. But for now, LG Display has pulled off something rare—a genuine technical leap that solves a real problem. Gamers get their speed, designers get their clarity, and LG gets bragging rights. In the cutthroat world of display tech, that counts as a win.
