Skyworth spent three decades becoming a top global TV brand. Now it is quietly betting the next three on putting solar panels on Chinese roofs - and the math is starting to favor the panels.
Ioannis (John) Kymissis is the Kenneth Brayer Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, where he directs the Laboratory for Unconventional Electronics (CLUE) and works on thin-film materials for displays and sensors. He is co-founder and acting CEO of Lumiode, a New York startup building high-brightness micro-LED microdisplays for augmented reality and wearables. A serial entrepreneur who has spun four companies out of his lab, he is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, IEEE, Optica, and the Society for Information Display, and helped launch the Makerspace @ Columbia.

The Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold is Samsung's first tri-fold smartphone — a 309g engineering marvel that unfolds from a pocketable phone into a full 10-inch tablet via two precision hinges. Launched in December 2025 at $2,899, it sold out globally within minutes of each restock before being discontinued in March 2026, with a successor already confirmed for 2027.