Konica Minolta - Organic EL Display
June 30, 2006
Liquid crystal display (LCD) is widely used for flat panel displays due to its
attractive appearance when compared to CRT and PDP displays. The disadvantage of using LCD is that a back light is required separately. An organic EL display with light emitting properties will allow technology to evolve and erase the need for the separate back light. Organic EL can also be manipulated to be a thinner, lighter and more energy efficient than its LCD counterpart.
This is why the new organic display from Konica/Minolta is so exciting. It is definitely a step in the right direction! The current prototype has a luminance of 1,000 cd/m2. No news has been revealed if this will hit production any time soon but konica/Minolta will surely be drawing attention to their pioneering research and development of this type of material. Their website holds more information on the differences of LCD and organic EL materials and the science that will bring us the next generation of technology. [konica website]
Via: TechEBlog
Mitsubishi D902iS
June 30, 2006
The Mitsubishi D902is is a new slider phone that will hit the market imminently… in Japan that is. Europe has to sit and wait to see when this will hit its shores, but when, and if, it does, this phone will be sure to raise some eyebrows. It is packed with a ton of features. All of its features are crammed into it’s 110 x 49 x 19.9mm chassis. It has a huge 400 x 240 screen, a better then average 4 megapixel camera with MP4 video recording. A MiniSD slot and can browse the web at a handy 384kbps. Unfortunatly the word is that this is not expected to leave Japan and thus, us lot are left to drool.
Via: Engadget
Rock Quaddra TX2
June 30, 2006
The Rock Quaddra TX2 is an improvement to the previous Quaddra T65. The Quaddra Tx2 is designed with a specification that is aimed at the fantatic gamer. It is an 17″notebook, sporting AMD’s latest Turion 64 X2 dual core processor,NVIDEO G0 7600 graphics card,high dynamic-range lighting, Bluetooth and Wi-fi on the 802.11 a/b/g standards, integrated 1.3mp webcam, dvd writer and WSXGA+ resolution of 1680×1050-pixels displayed on a X-Glass screen. It is on the little heavy side, weighing in at 3.5kg but it is rescued by being only 3.5cm thick. For those avid gamers,the notebook also provides 3 x USB’s for all the gaming accessories and up to 2GB of memory to save all those games.
Prices for the Rock Quaddra Tx2 start at £999 (ex VAT)
Via: TechEBlog
SanDisk 8GB Sansa e280
June 29, 2006
SanDisk are planning the Sansa e280 which sports 8Gb of flash memory. This is all rumours though and nothing has been set in stone yet. The rumour came from someone working at SanDisk.
A whois verified that the user posting the news on a forum did post from the Sandisk Camput and the pictures do look legit.
Lets see what comes of this news 
Via: Anythingbutipod
Plextor PX-B900A Blu-ray Burner
June 29, 2006
Plextor have released the PX-B900A drive which is a Blu-ray burner. It is a 2x burner which will write (rewrite) BD-R and BD-RE with capacities of 25Gb and 50Gb. The drive is also a combo drive and can write DVD+/-R/RW as well as dual layer. Even burning CD’s is an option.
There is no information on pricing yet and rumours say that it’s due out Sept/Oct this year.
Via: RegHardware
Microsoft Backlit Keyboard
June 29, 2006
Microsoft have launched a nice looking backlit wireless keyboard to the market. It is dubbed the “ultimate keyboard” so it must either all be hot air… or something spectacular. Well… how spectacular can a keyboard get after the laser projected keyboard reviewed a while back
Ay any rate, it seems to be a Bluetooth based system that includes a fancy backlight system that can measure ambient light and adjust accordingly. It even knows when you have stepped away and switches off the light to save power. Cant be bad! I might have to get one of these
Via: Engadget
LG Super 3G Widescreen Slider Phone (LG-SGH100)
June 29, 2006
LG have launched the Super 3G widescreen slider phone named the LG-SGH100. They are also releasing the LG-KH1000 which both look like nice new additions to the market. My first impressions are that this will sell because of the wide screen offering. The slider both slides down or across so that the phone can be used in widescreen mode. The phone comes with 2Gb Flash and 1Gb SDRAM or 512Mb of flash with 256Mb SDRAM. Thats a lot of storage packed in there! It has a 1.3 Mega pixel camers, a 2.2″ screen. The phone weighs just 125g.
Via: RegHardware
