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  • Video: Sharp’s 30-screen display system boasts world’s thinnest frame width

    Video: Sharp’s 30-screen display system boasts world’s thinnest frame width

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Sharp today in Japan presented the PN-V601 [press release in English], a multi.screen display system, which - at 6.5mm - features the world's thinnest bezel separation. In other words, Sharp managed to design the display, which consists of up to thirty 60-inch LCDs, so that it (almost) looks like one gigantic, "individual" screen.

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  • Video: Sony’s new, super-thin OLED display wraps around a pencil

    Video: Sony’s new, super-thin OLED display wraps around a pencil

    Posted on May 26, 2010 | No Comments
    OLEDs, which are said to lead the next wave of innovation in the TV space (after back-lit LCDs and 3D displays), come with plenty of advantages: they produce gorgeous images, they are self-luminous, light, and they're flexible - very flexible. Case in point: a super-thin, Sony-made 4.1-inch OLED that actually wraps around a pencil, shown today in Japan.

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  • Samsung’s AMOLED division is now profitable, expects major smartphone growth in 2010

    Samsung’s AMOLED division is now profitable, expects major smartphone growth in 2010

    Posted on May 20, 2010 | No Comments
    If you want the dish on what's happening with mobile displays, Lee Woo-jong, VP for marketing at Samsung Mobile Display, is as good a person to ask as any. The chap has been telling the Reuters Global Technology Summit that his company has finally gone into the black with its AMOLED production line, and that its research projects a 50 percent jump in smartphone shipments in 2010 relative to 2009. This is expected to boost demand, which is already exceeding supply, for high-quality displays. Samsung says shortages might be experienced all the way until next year, but has reiterated its belief that AMOLED is the future with a $2.15 billion investment into expanding its production lines, while also predicting a 30-fold growth in shipments of such displays by 2015. Every handset out there looking like the Wave? We could learn to live with that.

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  • Toshiba unveils 21-inch, glasses-free HD 3D display

    Toshiba unveils 21-inch, glasses-free HD 3D display

    Posted on April 27, 2010 | No Comments
    We're about to get yet another 3D display. This time, it's Toshiba Mobile Display Corp. that's prepping such a screen, an autostereoscopic (glasses-free), 21-inch 3D HD display "for use in next-generation 3D monitors", to be more exact. Toshiba says the main selling points is that its new "integral imaging system" with 9-parallax design makes it possible for users to view 3D images from a wider range of viewing angles.

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  • Video: No-touch, mid-air 3D input interface for mobile devices

    Video: No-touch, mid-air 3D input interface for mobile devices

    Posted on April 26, 2010 | No Comments
    A lot of sophisticated, portable gadgets nowadays have a touchscreen, but what if you could operate those gadgets with your fingers - without touching the display or any part of the device itself? A research team led by Masatoshi Ishikawa, a professor at the University of Tokyo, has developed a way to operate mobile devices by moving your fingers in mid-air.

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  • For the Nintendo 3DS? Hitachi develops glasses-free, mobile 3D display

    For the Nintendo 3DS? Hitachi develops glasses-free, mobile 3D display

    Posted on April 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Sony, Panasonic, NEC and now Sharp: All of these Japanese tech powerhouses are playing the 3D game now, but what about Hitachi? The biggest (sales-wise) of them all has been working on a glasses-free 3D projection system and sells a 3D cell phone in Japan (pictured), but Hitachi has been relatively quiet in terms of 3D. Today, however, Hitachi Displays announced [JP] the development of a new 3.1-inch 3D LCD, which is - you guessed it - specifically designed for mobile devices.

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  • Full-page Braille screens on their way

    Full-page Braille screens on their way

    Posted on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
    Researchers at North Carolina State Univeristy have created a method to allow for full screen electronic Braille displays. Current Braille displays show one line at a time, severely limiting the value of the display. This will create a matrix of Braille readouts on a larger scale. The researchers have developed a concept called a “hydraulic [...]

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  • Frameless laptop screens expected soon

    Frameless laptop screens expected soon

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    The infinity pools of the computing industry, frameless laptop screens are expected in the second or third quarter of this year, according to DigiTimes.

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  • Video Review: EVGA Interview

    Video Review: EVGA Interview

    Posted on August 7, 2009 | No Comments
    I'm going to be kind here and say that EVGA Interview is an interesting product. It is a dual monitor system with two 17-inch screens attached to a base. It's a good idea, it really is. I'm just concerned that $600 is a bit much to pay for two screens in this configuration. The trick here is that the screens turn over when you twist them into position. Want to show someone across the desk from you something? Flip over the monitor. It bears to note, however, that you need two graphics cards - DVI or VGA capable - to use both monitors at the same time.

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  • Car? Kids? Get a two-pack of headrest LCDs for $130

    Car? Kids? Get a two-pack of headrest LCDs for $130

    Posted on July 29, 2009 | No Comments
    headrestsDude. Sweet. I don't have kids, let alone anyone who really ever rides in the back seat of the car but if I did, I could easily justify a $130 outlay for not one, but two (two!) replacement headrests with built-in 7-inch LCD screens. Maybe I should just get these and then always ride in the back myself while the little lady handles the driving.

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