Oled Archive

  • No web filter: Sony to stop offering the XEL-1 OLED TV (in Japan)

    No web filter: Sony to stop offering the XEL-1 OLED TV (in Japan)

    Posted on February 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Say what you want about it (too expensive, too small etc.), but I've always liked the world's first commercially available OLED TV, Sony's XEL-1. It's just an 11-inch screen and costs $2,200, but the picture quality is just gorgeous. Today, however, Sony announced they won't produce and sell the device on the Japanese market anymore.

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  • Corning invests heavily into China’s LCD market

    Corning invests heavily into China’s LCD market

    Posted on February 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Corning Inc. is betting that big that LCD's popularity will exploded over in China. It recently announced plans to build a $400 million to $700 million glass-melting plant within China under the forecast that the country will see a 70% growth in the LCD TV market. Corning probably knows what its doing, too. After all, the company is responsible for 60% of the world's LCD glass.

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  • Taking gaming to the next level with OLEDs and projectors

    Taking gaming to the next level with OLEDs and projectors

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Researchers at Canada's Queen's University have been working on the most seemingly harmless of technologies, board games. They are taking a little different approach from the Microsoft Surface gaming project though.

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  • Specs and pics of the Viliv N5, S10, HD5, and P3 surface pre CES 2010

    Specs and pics of the Viliv N5, S10, HD5, and P3 surface pre CES 2010

    Posted on January 4, 2010 | No Comments
    It looks like Viliv has a lot planned for CES 2010 this week. In true Internet fashion, most, if not all, of Viliv's upcoming products leaked out today. The only thing missing are the prices and release dates. At least we have the specs for not only the multi-touch convertable S10 Blade netbook and N5 clamshell, but also all the info on the OLED, Android-equipped P3 and 10809-capable HD5 PMPs. To be honest, most of this info was out previously. The S10 Blade debuted over the summer and then Viliv somewhat announced the N5 a couple weeks back. But no matter, the rest of the specs are here for your enjoyment.

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  • Mitsubishi’s modular Diamond Vision OLED system demoed

    Mitsubishi’s modular Diamond Vision OLED system demoed

    Posted on October 8, 2009 | No Comments
    OLED has had issues gaining traction mainly because of the cost of manufacturing large screens. People like large screens. That’s the fact, jack. Anyway, Mitsubishi has developed a system that seems like it would help. It uses small, modular panels that can be combined to make a screen of nearly any size or shape. [...]

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  • Toshiba L01 prototype on display at CEATEC

    Toshiba L01 prototype on display at CEATEC

    Posted on October 7, 2009 | No Comments
    IMG_8176While Sony is prototyping a single-piece flexible OLED netbook, Toshiba is going the modular route with their L01 series netbook thingie. A 7-inch display is paired with a separate QWERTYkeyboard, giving you something akin to a traditional laptop experience. Or you can leave off the keyboard and use the L01 as a digital photo display, if that's your thing.

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  • iida Ply and Prismoid: Japan gets two new designer cell phones

    iida Ply and Prismoid: Japan gets two new designer cell phones

    Posted on September 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Japan's No. 2 cell phone carrier KDDI au is stepping up its efforts to promote its iida sub brand of designer cell phones (here's my photo report of some iida concept phones from back in April). Not only did it present its robotic cell phone Polaris today, it now gives us another two (more conventional) phones. And these you can actually buy soon (if you live in Japan).

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  • Live from the Sony IFA press conference

    Live from the Sony IFA press conference

    Posted on September 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Sir Howard Stringer is in the house for Sony’s IFA press conference. Please refresh this post to read new comments. 11:06 Talking about how Sony is changing. 11:08 The 3d train is on the track. Focus on cinema 3d. 4k digital projectors. Up to 1300 3d projectors in Regal Cinemas. 11:14 3d content coming to Sky in [...]

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  • OLED Digital Clock is Nothing But Numbers

    OLED Digital Clock is Nothing But Numbers

    Posted on July 13, 2009 | No Comments
    You know those analog clocks which are nothing but a pair of hands on a spindle, distilling the function of the timekeeper down to its bare, concentrated essentials? The Black & White Clock is like that, only it’s digital. The clock consists of numbers only: no case, no background, no nothing. Four OLED shapes mimic the [...]

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  • Hitachi to produce mini LCDs with world’s highest resolution

    Hitachi to produce mini LCDs with world’s highest resolution

    Posted on June 1, 2009 | No Comments
    FED and SED are practically dead, Plasmas never really took off and OLED are still too expensive to produce. Now Hitachi Displays wants to change this by dramatically improving the good old LCDs, at least for mobile devices (even for these, OLED are far from being a regularly used).

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  • Samsung shows off latest, biggest, bendiest AMOLED prototype

    Samsung shows off latest, biggest, bendiest AMOLED prototype

    Posted on May 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Samsung shows off latest, biggest, bendiest AMOLED prototype
    Today the flexible OLED is still a very rare thing, usually confined to dark corners of exhibitors booths at trade shows or grainy photos from some research facility. Sadly that doesn't look to change anytime in the immediate future, but Samsung is at least still making progress with the tech, demonstrating a new 6.5-inch flexible prototype at SID 2009 in San Antonio. It's bigger than the earlier examples we've seen from the company, and apparently a little bendier too, but beyond those juicy facts -- and knowing that it can display scenes from The Sound of Music -- we don't know a thing about it.

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    Samsung shows off latest, biggest, bendiest AMOLED prototype originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 May 2009 08:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Zune HD is official, heading your way this Fall

    Zune HD is official, heading your way this Fall

    Posted on May 26, 2009 | No Comments
    That's right folks, the Zune HD is real, and it's coming this Fall. Microsoft officially announced the next iteration in their Zune line today, making it less of a tripped out pipe dream, and more of a totally tubular reality. The specs, which look exactly like that leak we saw, go like this: 3.3-inch, 480 x 272 OLED capacitive touchscreen display, built-in HD Radio receiver, HD output (utilizing a new dock -- not on-board), and... not much more right now. Microsoft is doing away with the famed squircle in favor a full multitouch device, and they seemed to indicate that some new touch-friendly apps and games would be headed our way, though they were fairly mum when it came to details. The device will boast an IE-based, customized browser, but little else was said in the way of software.

    Details are also scarce concerning storage capacities, CPU performance, and other crucial numbers, but it seems like they've got more in store come E3... and that's the next big piece of news. Zune integration is coming to the Xbox and Xbox Live, as the Zune marketplace will step in to replace the current Live video resources, expanding the library and offering all kinds of new perks, like Zune's first foray into international waters. According to the company, at E3 "attendees will see first-hand how Zune integrates into Xbox LIVE creating a game-changing entertainment experience" -- we're not entirely sure what the means right now, but it sounds sweet. Try to contain your excitement.

    Update: Microsoft's just sent out a press release (after the break) and launched an official Zune HD page.

    Update 2: We just got sent a picture of black Zune HD, now after the break, which we're told Microsoft is giving out to selected "Zune MVP" sites such as Inside the Circle and ZuneTracks. See it for yourself after the break.

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    Zune HD is official, heading your way this Fall originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 May 2009 20:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Seiko Epson’s inkjet tech brings big-screen OLED TVs closer to reality

    Seiko Epson’s inkjet tech brings big-screen OLED TVs closer to reality

    Posted on May 26, 2009 | No Comments

    We know it's been burning on your mind everyday since December 6th, 2007: "What on Earth are those guys and gals over at Seiko Epson doing now that they've killed production of RPTVs?" At long last, we've located an answer. According to a prideful new release from the outfit, it has developed a new inkjet technology that will enable the "uniform deposition of organic material in the production of large-screen OLED TVs." For what seems like years now, manufacturers have teased us with 37-inch OLED HDTVs, but they've skirted around questions relating to "price" and "release." Now, the last remaining excuse seems to have been vaporized, so if we don't see a market-ready big-screen OLED at CES 2010... well, let's just say the knee-capping club is dying for a reason to reunite.

    [Via Akihabara News]

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    Seiko Epson's inkjet tech brings big-screen OLED TVs closer to reality originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 May 2009 10:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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