Philips ' core products are consumer electronics and electrical products ( including audio equipment, Blu-ray players, computer accessories, televisions, small domestic appliances and shavers ); healthcare products ( including CT scanners, ECG equipment, mammography equipment, monitoring equipment, MRI scanners, radiography equipment, resuscitation equipment, ultrasound equipment and X-ray equipment ); and lighting products ( including indoor luminaires, outdoor luminaires, automotive lighting, lamps, lighting controls and lighting electronics ).

Philips Gloeilampen Fabrieken, headquartered in Eindhoven in the Netherlands, got its start as a manufacturer of light bulbs, but quickly evolved until it is now one of the leading manufacturers of electrical apparatus, electronics, and related products including X-ray equipment.

Soon after the Autrometer was introduced, Philips decided to stop trying to market X-ray instruments developed in both U. S. and Europe and settled on offering only the Eindhoven line of instruments.

They chose the term " compact disc " in line with another Philips product, the compact cassette.

Thirty years later, on March 6, 2009, Philips received an IEEE Milestone award with the following citation: " On 8 March 1979, N. V. Philips ' Gloeilampenfabrieken demonstrated for the international press a Compact Disc Audio Player.

Dutch physicists Hendrik B. G. Casimir and Dirk Polder at Philips Research Labs proposed the existence of a force between two polarizable atoms and between such an atom and a conducting plate in 1947, and, after a conversation with Niels Bohr who suggested it had something to do with zero-point energy, Casimir alone formulated the theory predicting a force between neutral conducting plates in 1948 ; the former is called the Casimir-Polder force while the latter is the Casimir effect in the narrow sense.

Industrial activities initially centred around tobacco and textile and boomed with the rise of lighting and electronics giant Philips, which was founded as a light bulb manufacturing company in Eindhoven in 1891.

* BBC Domesday Project, a partnership between Acorn Computers Ltd, Philips, Logica and the BBC with some funding from the European Commission's ESPRIT programme, to mark the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday Book, an 11th century census of England.

" Mary Philips, in her own stage hit A Touch of Brimstone ( 1935 ), refused to give up her Broadway career to go to Hollywood with Bogart.

For example, G. Philips asserts that the essence-energies distinction as presented by Palamas is " a typical example of a perfectly admissible theological pluralism " that is compatible with the Roman Catholic magisterium.

Few personal computers used the 80186, with some notable exceptions: the Australian Dulmont Magnum laptop, one of the first laptops ; the Wang Office Assistant, marketed as a PC-like stand-alone word processor ; the Mindset ; the Siemens PC-D ( not 100 % IBM PC-compatible but using MS-DOS 2. 11: de: Siemens PC-D ); the Compis ( a Swedish school computer ); the RM Nimbus ( a British school computer ); the Unisys ICON ( a Canadian school computer ); ORB Computer by ABS ; the HP 100LX, HP 200LX, HP 1000CX and HP OmniGo 700LX ; the Tandy 2000 desktop ( a somewhat PC-compatible workstation with sharp graphics for its day ); the Philips: YES ; the Nokia MikroMikko 2.

There was a so-called 68070 processor, produced by Signetics ( Philips ), and was a modestly improved 68000 series processor, with a simple, on-chip MMU and I²C bus support.

All games produced by Magnavox / Philips ended with an exclamation point, such as K. C.

* Atos Origin, the company formed with the merger of BSO and Philips C & P ( Communications & Processing ) division

On 11 March 1927 Philips went on the air with shortwave radio station PCJJ ( later PCJ ) which was joined in 1929 by sister station PHI.

In parallel with the generator set Philips developed experimental Stirling engines for a wide variety of applications and continued to work in the field until the late 1970s, though the only commercial success was the ' reversed Stirling engine ' cryocooler.

Having prepared for this, Anton Philips and his son in law Frans Otten, as well as other Philips family members, fled to the United States, taking a large amount of the company capital with them.

In 2007, Philips has entered into a definitive merger agreement with North American luminaires company Genlyte Group Incorporated, which provides the company with a leading position in the North American luminaires ( also known as ˜ lighting fixtures "), controls and related products for a wide variety of applications, including solid state lighting.

In November 2008 Philips renewed and extended its F1 partnership with AT & T Williams.

Also Philips marks its " green " products with the Philips Green Logo, identifying them as products that have a significantly better environmental performance than their competitors or predecessors.

In Greenpeace's 2011 Guide to Greener Electronics that ranks electronics manufacturers on sustainability, climate and energy and how green their products are, Philips ranks 5th place ( down from 3rd place ) with a score of 4. 5 / 10.

CD-i also refers to the multimedia Compact Disc standard used by the CD-i console, also known as Green Book, which was developed by Philips and Sony ( not to be confused with MMCD, the pre-DVD format also co-developed by Philips and Sony ).

* His voice is also heard as the digitized voice for Philips ' HeartStart series of automated external defibrillator ( AED ) units used by emergency services nationwide.

Het Puik van zoete kelen ( The Cream of Glorious Voices ) Philips Dutch Masters 464 385-2 " Sea Slumber Song " audio sample

In the early 1980s, Philips merged Sylvania, Philco and Magnavox into one division headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, with a manufacturing plant in Greeneville, Tennessee.

Non -" L " numbers are " mold codes ", the first 2 or 3 digits of which are assigned by Philips to the operator of the manufacturing or mastering plant, which might not be the same plant that manufactured the stamper or glass master ; and the remaining digits are a serial number assigned by that plant to its molds.

The capture of Eindhoven by the U. S. 101st Airborne Division allowed early access to another high priority target: the Philips plant there.

Until the electrical appliance industry was deregulated in New Zealand in the 1980s, Waihi had a television assembly plant operated first by Akrad then by Philips which employed 400 locally and 1500 nationwide.

The records were pressed at Mercury's plant in Richmond, Indiana, and mastered in New York by George Piros at Fine Recording, using 2-track and mono master tapes provided by Philips.

Philips and DuPont partnered on a CD manufacturing plant in North Carolina called PDO.

NXP ( Formerly Philips, Mullard ) have a Semiconductor manufacturing plant ( wafer Fab ) located in Hazel Grove off Bramhall Moor Lane.

A strike at a Philips plant and an increase in party membership combined with a stronger communist presence in the trade unions convinced Larsen that the party had a bright future.

Recommended reference text for identification are Collins Complete British Mushrooms and Toadstools for the variety of field pictures in it and Roger Philips Mushrooms for the quality of his out of field pictures and descriptions.

The PASC compression scheme was believed to give better quality audio than the 5: 1 compression used by ATRAC in the original MiniDisc, but not as good as the uncompressed DAT, although both Philips and Sony stated the difference was imperceptible to listeners ' ears ( like MP3 or AAC files today ).

According to Philips, the name reflects either the generally high quality of the case design compared to initial attempts, or its appearance.

* Philips Business Communications, Cambridge: offered voice and data communications products, specialising in Customer Relationship Management ( CRM ) applications, IP Telephony, data networking, voice processing, command and control systems and cordless and mobile telephony.

* In 1982, the original 100-kHz I²C system was created as a simple internal bus system for building control electronics with various Philips chips.

* Philips VR2023 redesigned fascia and remote control as standard

* Philips VR2334 as VR2324 with added remote control and trick play

) after Philips brought control of the company.

Philips introduced their DCC system at approximately the same time using the same copy control system.

Among the new accessories is the Philips radio, full of boxes on the hatbox and control commands also reported on the steering wheel, electric mirrors, electric headlamp leveling control, infrared remote control for opening and closing of the locks, check control, tachometer, and available with the driver's seat lumbar adjustment, manual air conditioning.

The Europeans were offered an optional " Special Equipment Pack " that offered cruise control, aluminium alloy wheels, a driver's seat with power lumbar support, height, fore / aft and reclining adjusters, adjustable rear headrests, a 4 speaker stereo system provided by Philips and headlight wipers.

The Phoebus cartel was a cartel of, among others, Osram, Philips and General Electric from December 23, 1924 until 1939 that existed to control the manufacture and sale of light bulbs.

# British overseas territories, under control of Associated Electrical Industries, Osram, Philips, and Tungsram

Batteryless TV remote control from Arveni for Philips

Jim attributes this extraordinary phenomenon to his being left-handed and asserts that in fact all left-handers possess a larger left thumb, though this is factually inaccurate. Some of Mr Philips finer moments on air include ranting the stupid people are in control after the 04 election, reveling in joy after the death of any noteworthy conservative / republican and calling 81 year old callers old bats.

After this Philips began to gradually accumulate shares in the company over the years, and assumed complete economic control in 1993.

The Class D audio modules employ a control method called UcD, invented by Bruno Putzeys and patented by Philips Electronics.