Lcd Screens Archive

  • Fujitsu to unveil improved color e-paper screen

    Fujitsu to unveil improved color e-paper screen

    Posted on May 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Fujitsu Laboratories announced today that they will be unveiling a new version of their color electronic paper display at the company’s Fujitsu Forum exhibition in Tokyo next week. The new screen is a supposed to be a third brighter and has a contrast ratio of 7:1, three times that of the previous model. These improvements are mostly due to the use of a new liquid crystal material with superior reflective characteristics.

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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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  • Super-thin, bendable LCDs are coming

    Super-thin, bendable LCDs are coming

    Posted on February 2, 2010 | No Comments
    We have seen curved plasmas, OLED TVs and LCDs in the past, both as prototypes and actual products. And while many people believe OLED screens and not LCDs or plasmas are the future, a Japanese consortium of 13 companies and institutions is working hard on developing super-thin, flexible LCDs. The companies claim they now have found a way to produce these LCDs by using plastic film instead of glass substrates.

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  • New polarizer film to boost contrast of LCDs more than 10-fold

    New polarizer film to boost contrast of LCDs more than 10-fold

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    A Japanese company called Zeon claims it has developed a film for the polarizing plates of LCD screens that boosts picture contrast by more than an order of magnitude. The company is already selling films for those plates to LCD TV makers like Samsung whose screens are based on vertical alignment technology. It produces films for OLED screens, too. Zeon's new, so-called phase difference film, however, is made from Cyclo Olefin Polymer, which makes it suitable for LCD TVs based on in-plane-switching (IPS) technology. Makers relying on IPS technology are Panasonic or Hitachi, for example. The new Zeon film inhibits the diffusion of light from the backlight. As a result, viewers get to see clearer pictures.

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  • Kohjinsha’s futuristic dual-screen notebook

    Kohjinsha’s futuristic dual-screen notebook

    Posted on November 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Maybe it's just me, but this dual-screen notebook Kojinsha started selling in Japan today [JP] looks very futuristic (and very cool) to me. The main selling point is that you get not one but two 10.1-inch LCD screens in a compact body (size: 280×210×19〜42mm, weight: 1.84kg). And you can even buy the DZ6KH16E, which looks like a normal notebook when you use just one of the screens, if you live outside Japan.

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  • Vizio outs 19-, 23-inch LED-backlit LCDs

    Vizio outs 19-, 23-inch LED-backlit LCDs

    Posted on October 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Vizio has two new LCDs set to hit Best Buy and Walmart shelves just in time for the depressing holiday season. Yippie. These two boys use LED backlighting to light the LCD screens and to be honest, they're not to shabby in the specs department. The 23-inch is a 1080p model with 20,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio and 300 nits of brightness. The 19-inch however is a 720p model but it too sports the same contrast ratoi and brightness spec.

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  • Logitech outs the G110 gaming keyboard

    Logitech outs the G110 gaming keyboard

    Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments
    When I think of Logitech gaming keyboards, I picture large, oddly shaped creations because that’s what they traditionally look like. However, the new G110 throws out those styling cues for something a little more minimalistic and I like it. The G110 might not have LCD screens or futuristic color schemes like its G19 or G15 big brothers, [...]

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  • Hyundai goes nuts with OLED screens

    Hyundai goes nuts with OLED screens

    Posted on September 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Hyundai? Pretty please bring OLED screens to the automotive world. It doesn't have to be as futuristic as the dashboard in the Blue-Will concept car, but OLEDs are just so nice. Ford is already using LCD screens in its latest hybrids, but why not up the game a bit, and do something radical? Please?

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  • A week with the Viliv S7

    A week with the Viliv S7

    Posted on September 21, 2009 | No Comments
    So I have been using the Viliv S7 regularly for about a week now and I have concluded that it is the best netbook I have ever used. But yes, it's a netbook. The S7 might have a touchscreen, convertible design, super long battery life, and a modest size SSD, but at the end of the day, it's a luxury netbook.

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  • New Sharp LCD technology will save power, boost picture quality

    New Sharp LCD technology will save power, boost picture quality

    Posted on September 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Sharp Japan today announced [press release in English] the development of a new method that makes it possible to control the alignment of liquid crystal molecules in LCD screens with high precision. In practical terms, this means the new UV2A technology could lead to TVs that save energy and display pictures with higher contrast ratios.

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  • Videos: Sony attacks Apple with new (and pretty stylish) Walkman series

    Videos: Sony attacks Apple with new (and pretty stylish) Walkman series

    Posted on September 16, 2009 | No Comments
    About two weeks ago we reported Sony's Walkman (kind of) outsold the iPod in Japan for the first time in four years, and now Sony steps up their efforts in the portable media player arena by officially introducing the Walkman A [JP] and S series [JP, pictured]. Sony says their twelve new devices are specifically aimed at "young customers". Both series display lyrics that scroll as a song is played and have to be downloaded from the web (costing between $0.15 and $0.25 per text).

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  • Meet An9-PR, the cutest multi-purpose robot out there

    Meet An9-PR, the cutest multi-purpose robot out there

    Posted on July 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Japan-based security company ALSOK has developed an adorable robot [JP] that fulfills not one but a number of different functions. The so-called An9-PR can be used as a guide to help people in shopping centers or office buildings, an autonomously moving digital signage system or for surveillance. It's the big brother of the An9-RR, which was introduced back in March. It features a simple electric bulletin board that's wrapped around its head and a total of three LCD screens built into its body (one 19-incher is on the front and there are two 12-inchers on the back). People can view ads, information on buildings and other information on these (touch) screens.

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  • Old rivals Sony and Sharp inked LCD joint venture deal

    Old rivals Sony and Sharp inked LCD joint venture deal

    Posted on July 30, 2009 | No Comments
    The consolidation process in the Japanese home electronics business goes on and on. Today former rivals Sharp and Sony said [JP] they reached a final agreement to launch an LCD panel joint venture in Osaka, after having failed to ink the deal last month. In March already, Sharp said it wants Sony as a partner for its plans to boost the production of LCD TVs.

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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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  • The F1Showcar simulator is kind of cool

    The F1Showcar simulator is kind of cool

    Posted on July 26, 2009 | No Comments
    I don’t know how I feel about this $44,990 F1 simulator. On one hand, it’s a fraking F1 car mounted on top of a motion simulating gizmo. You turn left in the game, the car shifts left. How cool is that? Plus, it’s a Vodafone-sponsored car so you can be just like Lewis Hamilton. But doesn’t it [...]

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