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  • Hitachi working on cheaper, higher quality IPS touchscreens for cellphones

    Hitachi working on cheaper, higher quality IPS touchscreens for cellphones

    Posted on June 1, 2010 | No Comments
    In case you haven't heard, IPS panels are making inroads into the lucrative mobile market this year, and Hitachi's been working behind the scenes on something that should keep that momentum going. In the mainstream, touchscreen IPS displays are currently only available on Apple's iPad (and expected to show up in its next-gen iPhone), but should Hitachi's new production technique pan out, we might be seeing this screen tech in much more affordable devices as well. The company has fiddled with the arrangement of the touchscreen elements inside the panel, which it argues has made them cheaper and easier to produce and replace. All good news, but these things do take a while to filter through into reality, until which time you might wanna sate yourself with the latest desktop IPS displays, those ain't too shabby or expensive either.

    Hitachi working on cheaper, higher quality IPS touchscreens for cellphones originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Droid Incredible confirmed to be suffering from AMOLED shortage

    Droid Incredible confirmed to be suffering from AMOLED shortage

    Posted on May 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Being completely unable to keep a popular device in stock is a great problem to have, we suppose -- but considering that Verizon Wireless' Lowell McAdam believes he could sell "twice" the number of Droid Incredibles that he has available, that's got to be a bit of a bummer if you're one of the company's bean counters (or a would-be buyer, for that matter). In a talk at a Barclays Capital conference today, McAdam made it clear that component shortages were to blame for the high-end Android handset's general unavailability -- specifically the Samsung-sourced AMOLED display, which is seeing duty in more phones all the time and will likely be in short supply for a while yet. At the present, new buyers need to wait until at least mid-June to get their Droid Incredible if they order online, and the Nexus One's brief inventory situation is very likely related; since Samsung is using a ton of AMOLED displays in its own devices, doesn't this all seem like a conflict of interest?

    Droid Incredible confirmed to be suffering from AMOLED shortage originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 May 2010 16:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Time for E-ink: Seiko announces the first active-matrix watch

    Time for E-ink: Seiko announces the first active-matrix watch

    Posted on April 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Here's an interesting little tidbit; Seiko just announced that they are going to producing the world's first active matrix e-ink timepiece. That's right, a wristwatch that uses e-reader technology to display the time. Could we be looking at the next LCD display technology?

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  • The Logitech Harmony 300 doesn’t have a screen but it’s still a Harmony remote

    The Logitech Harmony 300 doesn’t have a screen but it’s still a Harmony remote

    Posted on March 31, 2010 | No Comments
    The Logitech Harmony 300 might be the last Harmony remote released for a while. It seems the Logitech has refreshed nearly the entire line with the 300 being the latest. It doesn't offer anything new per se, but rather a simple universal remote with the Harmony magic sans LCD screen. This configuration might be kosher for some setups, but be careful if you have anything more than a cable box, TV, and DVD player.

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  • Video: Samsung explains why their Super AMOLED screen is better than your normal AMOLED screen

    Video: Samsung explains why their Super AMOLED screen is better than your normal AMOLED screen

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Samsung's pretty proud of their Super AMOLED technology - and why shouldn't they be? With next to no fanfare, they managed to knock out the readability issues that plagued AMOLED handsets any time they were within view of the sun. And if vastly improved readability wasn't enough, they went and slimmed the whole thing down into a package considerably tighter than the competition's not-so-sun friendly offerings. Samsung's compiled a nifty little video showing off all the reason why their Super AMOLED displays deserve their name.

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  • The blind camera shows you someone else’s pictures

    The blind camera shows you someone else’s pictures

    Posted on March 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Here's an interesting item, from artist Sascha Pohflepp. It's called Blinks and Buttons, and it's a "blind camera." Possessing no lens and no viewfinder, the "camera" still takes a picture when you press the big red shutter button.

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  • Cellphones will be able play intense 3D games and 1080p video.. at the same time.

    Cellphones will be able play intense 3D games and 1080p video.. at the same time.

    Posted on February 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Much of what is coming out of the MWC is still in the concept stage and not available yet, but that doesn't make it any less fun. Take for example the latest Armada chipset from Marvell; it's an ARM based graphic processing package that has enough power to handle hi-res 3D gaming, and 1080p video at the same time.

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  • Video: HP has itself a Wall of Touch

    Video: HP has itself a Wall of Touch

    Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
    What to make of HP's "Wall of Touch"? The Wall Street Journal has a nifty little write-up of the technology, and comes away like it just shook hands with Brock Lesnar's doctors. "Thank you so much, doctor!" The fact is, despite the fact that you don't actually touch the Wall of Touch, the idea of touchscreen interfaces is no longer foreign and exotic. We're several years after Jeff Han's big demonstration, plus there was that iPhone thing.

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  • New projector displays an image 65 feet wide

    New projector displays an image 65 feet wide

    Posted on December 8, 2009 | No Comments
    Projectors have come a long way in the past couple of years, but they aren't exactly suitable for replacing monitors. What they can do, however, is put images on almost any surface — and there are a select few like the Projectiondesign F35 that can create truly enormous displays.

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  • First DJ iPhone app lets you mix beats without listening to them.

    First DJ iPhone app lets you mix beats without listening to them.

    Posted on November 24, 2009 | No Comments
    If we applied Moore's law to the art of DJing, we would probably get something like Amidio's Touch DJ app. Gone are the software disk jockeys who replaced the original vinyl selectors. Now you can spin beats on your iPhone or iPod touch without listening to them. Wait, what?

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  • National Geographic: 50 Years of Space Exploration

    National Geographic: 50 Years of Space Exploration

    Posted on October 13, 2009 | No Comments
    Ready to lose 20 minutes of your day? Check out this huge infograph that displays the last 50 years of space exploration. It’s awesome although it does kind of indicate that Venus is closer to earth than the Moon. The “50 Years of Space Exploration” graphic was created by Sean McNaughton and Samuel Velasco for [...]

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  • CEATEC: ALPS sends data through the human electric field

    CEATEC: ALPS sends data through the human electric field

    Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
    ceatec2009-alps-01ALPS, the folks that mainstreamed the touchpad way back in the day, are continuing to innovate. Now they're playing with electric field transmissions, which allows the human body to act as a communication medium. Video inside!

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  • UberNES may be the greatest screen saver since Johnny Castaway

    UberNES may be the greatest screen saver since Johnny Castaway

    Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Be still my beating heart. The UberNES Nintendo Screen Saver displays a grid of multiple working NES games when your computer is idle. Leave it be, and you’ll see all the various demos running at once. Hit the spacebar and you can actually start playing the games. Tears of joy, my friends. Tears of joy.

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  • Video: One plane displays explained

    Video: One plane displays explained

    Posted on July 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Ready for your geekdom video of the day? Jason Torchinsky is a guest blogger at Boing Boing and put up an interesting 4:07 video which explains the dead technology. Give it a watch and check out his thoughts here. Oh, and Jason, I think that’s a tree and not a clover.

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  • Apple’s Mesmerizing Window Display, Featuring An Infinite Flurry Of iPhone Apps

    Apple’s Mesmerizing Window Display, Featuring An Infinite Flurry Of iPhone Apps

    Posted on July 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Earlier this evening I was walking down the streets of Palo Alto near TechCrunch HQ, when I stumbled across what is likely the coolest window display I've ever seen, unsurprisingly housed at the Apple Store. The display features a giant wall of apps flying by, accompanied by a massive iPhone that briefly displays a handful of featured apps for a few seconds apiece. As far as I know this is new, though it's possible that it has appeared in front of other stores before now. In any case, it's damn cool, and reminds me of the incredible App Wall that Apple featured at this year's WWDC. Check out the video above.

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