Designed to Fulfill Daily Business and Education Needs with Flexible Throw Ratio Options and Resolution Choices

BREA, Calif., Sept. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual solutions, introduced the LSD400 Series, featuring two new 4,000 ANSI Lumens laser projectors—LSD400W and the short-throw LSD400HD-ST—as practical and reliable additions to its Luminous Superior Series (LS Series). Equipped with high-efficiency laser light sources, these models deliver high brightness with lower 49% of power consumption, reducing the total cost of ownership, which is ideal for large-scale deployments in business and educational environments.

“ViewSonic is advancing sustainable projection with lamp-free technology, which now makes up 70% of our lineup and delivers eco-friendly and low-maintenance solutions,” said Dean Tsai, General Manager of Projector & LED Display Business Unit at ViewSonic. “Building on our recent 9-fold sales growth in the 5,000+ ANSI Lumens lamp-free segment, we’re committed to expanding our portfolio with the new 4,000 ANSI Lumens models that combine performance and accessibility to provide long-term value and meet evolving professional demands.”

Laser-Powered Brightness with Environmental Efficiency
Featuring the advanced 3^rd gen laser phosphor technology, the LSD400 Series delivers enhanced brightness and luminous efficiency, meanwhile consumes up to 49% less power than comparable lamp-based models, helping reduce energy costs in everyday operation.

Its 30,000-hour lifespan eliminates the need for regular lamp replacements in traditional solutions, which require up to five light bulb replacements to match the same usage time. This significantly reduces maintenance, minimizes resource waste, and eliminates the risk of mercury pollution. Its lower operating temperature also results in quieter fan operation, enhancing the overall audiovisual experience.

Reliable Visual Quality and Deployment Flexibility
Designed for versatile installation, the series features 360° projection, H/V keystone correction, and 4-corner adjustment. This allows placement from various angles to suit different room layouts without distorting the image. While the series can project visuals up to 300 inches, the short-throw model can produce a 100-inch image from just 1.1 meters in compact environments.

Powered by DLP technology, the LSD400 Series delivers consistent brightness and color performance over time without yellowing, making it ideal for meeting rooms and classrooms where clear, reliable visuals are essential. This performance is equally important for immersive applications, such as golf simulators, where the dedicated Golf Mode enhances color vibrancy to produce realistic, lifelike visuals. Its sealed, filter-free engine prevents dust from entering internal components, ensuring long-term performance with minimal maintenance. For large-scale deployments, LAN control with Crestron certification and compatibility with other third-party control systems simplifies centralized device management, allowing IT teams to efficiently manage multiple rooms and locations.

About ViewSonic
Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Brea, California, ViewSonic is a leading global provider of visual solutions for the education, business, and consumer markets, with a presence in over 100 countries. Driven by the mission to transform education, workplaces, and lives, the company delivers a unified ecosystem of innovative hardware, software, and services that integrates seamlessly with the platforms, tools, and partners customers trust. Its product portfolio includes monitors, projectors, interactive displays, LED displays, commercial displays, video conferencing systems, and industrial solutions. Complementing its hardware is a robust suite of software offerings—including myViewBoard, ClassSwift, TeamOne, Manager, and AirSync—featuring AI-powered tools for collaboration, device optimization, and management. By empowering creativity, collaboration, and lifelong learning, ViewSonic supports customers at every stage in achieving their business and sustainability goals, creating a lasting impact and helping people everywhere connect with purpose—and See the Difference. Learn more at www.viewsonic.com. 

BERLIN, Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — SwitchBot, a leading provider of AI-enabled embodied home robotics systems, makes a bold statement at IFA 2025, unveiling a visionary lineup of Embodied AI products designed to bring warmth, personality, and true intelligence into modern smart homes. From the tennis court to the living room, SwitchBot’s newest innovations explore how AI and robotics can be integrated into everyday living.

Highlighting SwitchBot’s IFA attendance are the Acemate Tennis Robot (incubated by SwitchBot), SwitchBot AI Pet (KATA Friends Series), SwitchBot AI Hub, and the SwitchBot AI Art Frame. Additionally, SwitchBot has also brought a series of new smart home devices for a more connected and adaptive smart home environment.

Visitors to IFA 2025 can experience the full range of SwitchBot’s new products at booth H1.2-164, Messe Berlin.

Acemate Tennis Robot: The World’s First Real-Rally AI Tennis Robot

Incubated by SwitchBot, Acemate redefines what the tennis training process can be.

Unlike traditional ball machines that repeat static shots, Acemate uses dual 4K binocular cameras and advanced AI algorithms to track serves, returns, and rallies with centimeter-level accuracy, predict trajectories, and respond within 0.15 seconds. Its four Mecanum wheels allow 360° movement at speeds up to 5 m/s, enabling it to cover the entire court and return shots with lifelike precision.

Meanwhile, Acemate is also an AI tennis coach. Integrated AI captures ball speed, spin rate, net clearance, and placement in real time, offering in-session feedback through the Acemate app for iOS and Android. Players can review heat maps, shot charts, and detailed match statistics, while Apple Watch integration displays live biometrics for instant insight.

Multiple serve modes, 20 programmable target zones, and adjustable spin and speed allow for everything from beginner-friendly rallies to pro-level drills. With an 80-ball capacity, a 6700mAh battery for up to three hours of continuous play, and compatibility with hard, clay, and grass courts, Acemate brings professional-grade training to any player, anywhere.

SwitchBot AI Pet: Emotional Companionship in an Intelligent Form

The SwitchBot AI Pet, the KATA Friends Series, is a soft-bodied household companion robot with on-device LLM AI and on-cloud VLM AI. By combining AI technology with an understanding of human emotional needs, SwitchBot aims to bring warmth and empathy into the smart home, offering comfort, recognizing emotions, and responding in real time with genuine, context-aware interactions.

The AI Pet displays a range of relatable emotions, such as happiness, sadness, loneliness, jealousy, even hunger, and provides the most immediate form of emotional exchange. It sees you, responds to you, and understands your feelings. Using AI, it learns from daily interactions, remembers people, routines, and spaces, and keeps a log of memorable moments, blending companionship with technology.

As SwitchBot’s other products make everyday life easier through automation and smart control, the AI Pet addresses emotional needs. It’s not just an AI robot. It’s a friend, a confidant, and a growing family friend that’s always there when needed.

SwitchBot AI Hub: The World’s First Smart Home Edge Hub with Visual Language Model AI

The SwitchBot AI Hub is the first smart home edge hub with a Vision Language Model (VLM) AI, enabling it to interpret events visually, much like a human.

Paired with the Pan/Tilt Cam Plus 2K/3K or SwitchBot Smart Video Doorbell, it can understand events and then summarize them in text, which can be used as triggers for home automation. That way, the AI Hub actually simplifies the complexity that users have to deal with when trying to start home automation under complicated circumstances. It also supports textual search (e.g., “Show me when I left my phone”) and provides daily event summaries via the SwitchBot app. With 32GB built-in storage (expandable to 1TB), it stores footage locally, avoiding fees and privacy risks.

The SwitchBot AI Hub also connects to 100+ devices, supports Matter Over Bridge, dual-band Wi-Fi, and extended Bluetooth. A 6T AI chip enables local recognition, manages eight 2K cameras, streams via RTSP, and outputs to a monitor.

SwitchBot AI Art Frame – Art Meets AI Creativity

The SwitchBot AI Art Frame uses E Ink Spectra 6 color e-paper to display art, photos, and AI-generated images in vivid, paper-like quality without blue light strain.

Users can create visuals by simply entering text prompts or uploading reference images via the SwitchBot app, which uses a locally self-trained AI model for generation. The frame is available in three sizes (7.3″, 13.3″, and 31.5″) and can be displayed on desks, walls, or stands in both portrait and landscape orientations. With a battery life of up to two years and compatibility with IKEA frames, it blends seamlessly into any interior.

A Look Into Living in the Future with Embodied AI

In addition to its Embodied AI lineup, SwitchBot is expanding its smart home ecosystem with new devices, including the Presence Sensor, Smart Radiator Thermostat, Home Climate Panel, Standing Circulator Fan, and Smart Lighting Series.

All the new innovations of SwitchBot demonstrate its vision to empower everyday lives and smart homes with Embodied AI, creating solutions that not only automate tasks but also interact naturally, understand their users, and integrate seamlessly into daily routines.

For more information, visit SwitchBot’s official website and follow SwitchBot on X, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.

BERLIN, Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Acemate , a sports-tech innovator dedicated to improving sports lives with AI, today unveiled the Acemate Tennis Robot at IFA 2025, the world’s first AI-powered tennis robot capable of true rally play. Engineered for players of all levels, from beginners to seasoned competitors, Acemate brings an authentic, human-like rally experience to courts worldwide, forever changing the way tennis is practiced.

Visitors to IFA 2025 can find Acemate at booth #H1.2-164, Messe Berlin.

Human-Like Rally

Powered by dual 4K binocular cameras and advanced AI algorithms, Acemate Tennis Robot achieves centimeter-level tracking accuracy and 0.15-second pro-level reaction times, simulating the pace, spin, and tactics of actual match play.

Meanwhile, equipped with four Mecanum wheels, the Acemate Tennis Robot is capable of 360° movement at speeds of up to 5 m/s, enabling the robot to reach and return shots across the entire court. The patent-pending catch net design softens impact, while the high-torque ball ejection motor delivers speeds up to 70 mph (113 km/h) with adjustable topspin, backspin, flat shots, slices, and lobs.

With such a setup, Acemate Tennis Robot rallies like a real partner, predicting, moving, catching, and returning balls with lifelike precision,  distinguishing itself from the traditional ball launchers that only serve static shots.

Your AI Tennis Coach

Beyond rally play, Acemate doubles as a fully-integrated AI tennis coach that brings professional analysis to every player. Its dual 4K binocular cameras track each shot with centimeter-level accuracy, capturing ball speed, spin rate, net clearance, and placement in real time. The data is instantly processed through AI to provide meaningful in-session feedback, helping players adjust their form and tactics right away. The Acemate app turns performance data into visual heat maps, shot distribution charts, and detailed match statistics through both iOS and Android, offering players a clear view of their strengths, weaknesses, and progress over time.

Additionally, with integration with Apple Watch, live bio data of players could also be recorded and displayed, while in-app video replay offers immediate technique review. Acemate would then generate personalized training recommendations, from short-term drills to long-term improvement plans, ensuring every session is purposeful, targeted, and results-driven, enabling players to train smarter and improve faster.

Serve Smarter, Practice Longer

Though the Acemate Tennis Robot excels at providing a true-rally match play experience and AI tennis coaching function, it’s still an intelligent serve and drill assistant that adapts to every training goal. Players can choose from multiple serve and rally modes, including fixed-point targeting for precision drills, multi-point sequences for footwork training, or fully randomized match simulations to recreate real-game pressure.

With 20 programmable target zones, Acemate can replicate deep baseline drives, short drop shots, angled volleys, or high lobs, each with adjustable spin, speed, and trajectory. It can serve balls at up to 70 mph (113 km/h), with finely tunable topspin, backspin, and flat shots, making it equally suited for beginners learning control and advanced players fine-tuning match strategies.

To keep practice flowing, Acemate’s extra-large ball hopper holds up to 80 balls for extended sessions without constant reloading. The high-capacity 6700mAh battery powers up to 3 hours of continuous play, and swapping the battery takes just seconds for uninterrupted training.

Meanwhile, its all-court compatibility means that Acemate is ready for any surface, from clay and hard courts to even grass ones. Its compact, trunk-friendly design with app-controlled mobility ensures that Acemate is easy to transport to any court. Whether for solo practice or structured coaching sessions, Acemate keeps players on court longer, training more effectively, and enjoying every rally.

Availablity

The Acemate Tennis Robot is already available for pre-order on Acemate’s official website, with the MSRP starting from USD 2,499 / CAD 3,499 / GBP 2,599 / EUR 2,599 /AUD 3,999, in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Australia.

Meanwhile, Acemate also offers the device in the pickleball version, and consumers can choose according to their own needs.

About Acemate

Incubated by SwitchBot, Acemate was founded by a team of AI visual engineers from Microsoft and Google. Combining robotics expertise with a passion for sports, Acemate is dedicated to improving sports lives with the power of AI for all sports lovers.

For more information, visit Acemate’s official website or follow Acemate on X, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok.

DENVER, Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Siterwell, a global leader in smart security, is set to unveil an upgrade to one of its top-selling products, the Smart Thermostat (GS368M), at the CEDIA Expo 2025.

CEDIA Expo, the world’s biggest annual smart home technology exhibition, will take place from September 4 to 6 in Denver, Colorado. Attendees can find Siterwell at booth #C916.

Upgraded Smart Thermostat

Siterwell’s new Smart Thermostat (GS368M), powered by Matter-over-Thread, is designed to deliver a premium smart thermostat experience at an entry-level price. By supporting the newest smart home standard, it ensures seamless interoperability across platforms while offering enhanced functionality, smarter connectivity, and improved energy savings.

Compared to traditional thermostats, the GS368M saves up to 23% on energy costs with flexible scheduling and smart optimization, helping both the environment and users’ wallets.

With Matter-enabled cross-platform compatibility, users can integrate the thermostat into leading smart home ecosystems. Support for Alexa and Google Assistant enables hands-free temperature adjustments and remote control gives family members full flexibility to manage temperature anytime and anywhere via a smartphone, tablet, or laptop.

Users can also create custom daily temperature schedules for up to seven days to maximize comfort while optimizing energy use.

The thermostat features HVAC monitoring to track system performance and send alerts on maintenance and potential issues. It can also monitor weather conditions and automatically adjust heating or cooling for optimal comfort. Its high-quality sensors allow precise temperature adjustment in 0.5, 1, 1.5, or 2°F increments.

Siterwell’s new Smart Thermostat sports a large full-touch LCD display with sleek, ultra-thin design that complements any wall. Its farsighted feature lights up the screen when someone approaches, making temperature and time visible across the room.

The display’s brightness automatically adjusts to ambient light, and an interactive design with soft beeps, dynamic emoticons, and intuitive prompts make for an engaging user experience.

Installing the Smart Thermostat is fairly quick and hassle-free thanks to step-by-step app guidance and a built-in level.

Matter-Powered Innovation

In addition to the upgraded Smart Thermostat, Siterwell will showcase its several other Matter-compatible innovations at the expo. These include the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (GS886M), Smart Motion Sensor (GS307M), and Door-Window Detector (GS325M).

The Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (GS886M) combines advanced dual-spectrum photoelectric sensing with UL217 9th edition compliance to deliver reliable safety and fewer false alarms. Featuring both smoke and CO detection, clear voice alerts, and easy installation, it provides homeowners with a comprehensive and user-friendly solution for enhanced home safety.

The Matter-over-Thread-enabled Smart Motion Sensor (GS307M) is designed to provide accurate human movement detection with easy installation and long-lasting performance. With its advanced PIR sensor and adjustable detection angles, it is an ideal addition to smart home security and automation systems.

The Door-Window Detector (GS325M) is also Matter-over-Thread-enabled, and is designed to seamlessly integrate into modern smart homes. With professional-grade reed switches and ultra-low-power design, it offers reliable performance, easy installation, and long battery life, making it an ideal choice for security and automation needs.

Designed for high interoperability and cross-platform integration, these products are fully compliant with emerging industry standards. By adopting the latest connectivity protocols like Matter, Siterwell continues to lead product innovation and ensure seamless compatibility across smart home ecosystems. All Siterwell offerings keep sustainability at their core, by prioritizing eco-friendly materials, energy efficiency, and responsible manufacturing.

About Siterwell

Founded in 2010, Siterwell Electronics Co., Limited is a global provider of smart home safety solutions, committed to protecting homes, communities, and businesses worldwide through cutting-edge innovation in IoT, smart city, and home safety technologies. Its product range covers smoke alarms, CO alarms, heat alarms, gas detectors, PIR sensors, door sensors, and anti-theft systems.

Siterwell’s global footprint spans China, Singapore, Vietnam, the UK, the Netherlands, and the U.S., and its acquisition of UK-based FireAngel has accelerated the company’s transformation from an ODM manufacturer to a globally recognized safety brand.

Learn more at Siterwell.com

Funding fuels global expansion of breakthrough cooling and warming fabric technology with continued support from Stanford University Laboratories

STANFORD, Calif., Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — YiLab Temperature Control Technologies, the materials science enterprise co-founded by Professor Yi Cui at Stanford University, a world-leading expert in nanotechnology, materials science, and sustainable energy, today announced the close of an oversubscribed pre-A funding round, bringing total funding to more than USD $10 million. The round drew strong interest from strategic investors to scale the technology of LifeLabs Design, a brand owned by YiLab for providing high-performance sustainable fabrics for functional apparel brands. The LifeLabs fabrics provide solutions in outdoor and active lifestyle apparel for temperature regulation.

Specifically, proceeds from the round will be used to establish a state-of-the-art research laboratory and factory in Asia, enabling rapid prototyping and scaling of LifeLabs’ proprietary textile technologies.

“This funding marks a pivotal step forward in our mission to transform textiles into powerful climate solutions,” said Sophia Ou, CEO and co-founder of YiLab. “The enthusiasm from investors reinforces both the urgency of our work and the strength of our technology. With our new R&D lab and factory, we’re building a fast process from laboratory technology innovation to real-world impact.”

LifeLabs is known for its thermoregulating textiles requiring fewer resources for production while delivering unmatched comfort and energy efficiency to the wearer. The breakthrough fabric technology, which originated at Stanford University a decade ago and has since proven in commercial space, provide scalable solutions to lower global energy consumption and carbon emissions.

The pre-A round attracted a diverse group of investors from technology, sustainability, and consumer sectors, reflecting the broad applicability and market demand for LifeLabs’ technologies.

Today, Lifelabs is working with established global apparel and accessory brands on future season launches.

About YiLab Temperature Control Technologies
YiLab Temperature Control Technologies is a materials science company founded in 2024 by Professor Yi Cui at Stanford University and Ms Sophia Ou. YiLab develops and commercializes advanced thermoregulating fabrics that enhance comfort while reducing global energy consumption and carbon emissions. The technology comes from LifeLabs Design. For more information, visit www.lifelabs.design.

Media Contacts:
Annie Armstrong, annie@cgprpublicrelations.com
Ben Ryan, media@lifelabs.design

Professor Yi Cui, founder and inventor, LifeLabs Design

Sophia Ou, CEO and co-founder of YiLab

WESTBOROUGH, Mass., Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Olympus Corp., a global medical technology company committed to making people’s lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling, announced today an exclusive global distribution agreement with MacroLux Medical Technology Co., Ltd. to distribute single-use urology products.

Olympus Corp. announced a global distribution agreement with MacroLux Medical to distribute single-use urology products in the U.S. and Canada and in countries in Europe and the Asia Pacific region

The agreement includes multiple single-use cystoscopes, ureteroscopes and suction access sheaths. These devices are used to access and visualize the bladder and urinary tract to diagnose and treat urinary diseases and disorders such as kidney stones. 

“We are excited to embark on this new partnership, a synergy that underscores our unwavering commitment to advancing patient care,” said Gabriel McHugh, Executive Vice President Surgical and Interventional Solutions, Olympus Corp. “By integrating innovative single-use technology into our urology portfolio, we are enhancing the landscape of urological care for our customers and their patients.”

Olympus delivers a broad range of kidney and bladder stone management and non-muscular invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) visualization and access solutions for detection and treatment. With the addition of the MacroLux Medical single-use endoscopes and access sheath portfolio, Olympus can offer physicians increased flexibility and confidence in visualization and surgical precision.

“Olympus is a trusted endoscopy partner for treatment of urological disease and now is uniquely positioned to provide access to a broad range of high-quality endoscopes. This includes reusable and single-use flexible scopes, rigid and semi-rigid scopes, powerful lithotripsy solutions, and gold-standard NMIBC detection,” said Glen Branconier, Senior Vice President & General Manager of Urology/Gynecology, Olympus Corp. “We are excited and privileged to provide urologists and health care providers with the tools they need to confidently care for their patients.”

The agreement includes distribution in the United States, Canada, countries across Europe and countries in the Asia Pacific region. Countries in Europe include:

• UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland)
• Ireland
• Austria
• Belgium
• Germany
• Netherlands
• Luxembourg
• Norway
• Denmark
• Switzerland
• Sweden

Countries/regions in the APAC region include:

• Australia
• New Zealand
• Hong Kong, PRC
• Singapore
• South Korea

“Olympus is a highly respected industry leader that we deeply admire. Our strategic cooperation with Olympus generates powerful synergies, enabling us to combine our respective strengths and accelerate the market introduction of MacroLux’s urological disposable endoscopes and access sheath solutions, products that offer clinical value,” said Martin Zhang, Chief Executive Officer, MacroLux Medical. “These products may enhance clinical efficiency and help improve patient treatment outcomes. This collaboration also inspires us to continue with product innovation and R&D, delivering clinical solutions to customers worldwide.”

The MacroLux single-use cystoscopes offer the following features:

• 140° field of view 
• 235° up/145° down distal tip angulation
• 14.4Fr outer diameter with 2.2mm working channel 

The MacroLux single-use ureteroscopes offer the following features:

• 7.5Fr and 8.25Fr outer diameter scope offering
• 275° distal tip angulation 
• AutoHold Technology thumb lever control 
• 120° field of view 

The MacroLux single-use suction access sheaths are available in multiple sizes to meet various urological procedure needs and negative pressure connection for stone removal.

These products may not be available in all regions. As with any medical device, careful consideration should be given to all applicable labeling, including potential risks and benefits associated with the product.

Visit the Olympus urology product page for more information about Olympus’ complete urology portfolio.

About Olympus 
At Olympus, we are committed to Our Purpose of making people’s lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling. As a global medical technology company, we partner with healthcare professionals to provide innovative solutions and services for early detection, diagnosis and minimally invasive treatment, aiming to improve patient outcomes by elevating the standard of care in targeted disease states. For more than 100 years, Olympus has pursued a goal of contributing to society by producing products designed with the purpose of delivering optimal outcomes for its customers around the world. For more information, visit olympus-global.com and follow our global LinkedIn and X accounts.

About MacroLux Medical
Headquartered in Shenzhen, China, MacroLux Medical Technology Co., Ltd. was established in October 2020. A medical technology company specializing in innovative solutions for disposable endoscopic diagnosis and treatment, the founding team hails from leading Chinese medical device companies and possesses more than a decade of experience in the research and development, global commercialization, and production management of endoscopes and minimally invasive surgical instruments. Committed to continuous innovation, MacroLux Medical aspires to provide disposable endoscopic diagnostic and therapeutic solutions worldwide, enabling earlier disease detection and enhanced patient treatment. For more information, visit microlite.cn.