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Announcements made recently show that LG intend to start mass producing OLED TV’s over the next few years starting this year with 20 inch screens. Production will then shift to 30 inch in 2011 with 40 inch OLED screens being mass produced in 2010.
The details came from Won Kim who is the vice president in charge of OLED sales and marketing over at LG. [click to continue…]
Next week Mitsubishi will be putting on display a 149 inch prototype OLED display at ISE 2010 in Amsterdam. The huge OLED display has a resolution of just 1088 x 640 pixels though as each pixel measures 3mm which when viewed from far still gives a very impressive picture from what reports say.
The light output measures 1500cd/m2 and the production model will run several times brighter than a regular LCD display. By having such a bright screen it makes it functional in indoor and bright lit areas. [click to continue…]
Robert Scoble managed to meet up with Dr Adrian Cable who is the CTO of Light Blue Optics. The Light Touch is device that sits on a table and is capable of projecting an image on to the surface it sits on. An infra-red curtain is created across the table and when you touch the desk you can interact with the projector.
Uses for such a technology could be seen in restaurants where interactive menus can be displayed. The system uses a custom built laser projection system. As the screen is created by laser it allows for the full image to always be in focus regardless of where the image is displayed and at what distance the image is created. [click to continue…]
Zeon have created a new film for polarising plates that will boost the contrast of the LCD image by at least 10 times. The company also have created a similar kind of film for OLED based screens too.
If companies decide to use the film and it does what Zeon claims it does then images will be even more clearer than they are now.
The film is referred to as the phase difference film and is made of Cyclo Olefin Polymer that is compatible with IPS (in-plane-switching) technology. [click to continue…]
GefanTV have launched a new wireless HDMI 1080p extender that allows uncompressed data to be sent from a source to a full HD TV. Included in the set are both the transmitter and the receiver that are capable of sending the full HD signal of distances up to 30 feet.
The GefanTV transmitter has an RS232 port on it that allows firmware to be upgraded. On the front of the devices are LED’s that hsow the power status, connected status and signal strengths. [click to continue…]
If you want a dual screen netbook or laptop then you have the option of a Kohjinsha Dual Screen Netbook and that’s really all there is as far as I am aware.
The Sideline Cinq could be another option in that you can add an additional LCD screen to your laptop that is powered and run via a USB port. The screen measures 10.1 inches and has a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. The screen functions in both portrait and landscape mode allowing it to suit your needs more fully. [click to continue…]
The LG LH30 is an affordable 1080p TV packed with some great features and technology. It has many LG innovative technologies including
* Full HD 1080p resolution – 1920 x 1080p
* 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio for deeper blacks and greater picture detail
* Picture Wizard – enables self-calibration with your remote control providing on-screen reference points for key picture quality elements
* Slim silhouette invisible speaker system with Dolby Digital 5.1
* clear voice II enhances and amplifies the frequency range of the human voice to keep dialogue audible when background noise rises
* AV mode II
* ISFccc Ready for professional calibration for picture performance
* Energy star rating 3.0
* 24P Real Cinema
* 3 HDMI V.1.3 and PC input – connect your HD devices and get the full HD experience! [click to continue…]
LG have released details of a new 19 inch flexible epaper that measures 0.3mm in thickness and weighs just 130 grams. The e-paper measures a little smaller than an A3 sheet of paper and was created by putting a layer of TFT on to metal foil rather than glass substrate. By using foil instead of glass it allows a certain amount of flexibility.
CTO and executive VP of LG Display, In Jae Chung said:
Our development of the world’s largest flexible display has opened up a new market in the next-generation display sector of e-paper.
Casio have created a new projector called the Casio XJ-A series that aims to be “clean and green” according to their press release. The projector achieves this by using laser LED hybrids rather than mercury lamps. The projector is capable of up to 3000 lumens brightness.
The projector it’s self actually looks quite impressive. It’s slim at 43mm and weighs just 2.3KG. Depth and width dimensions show it having the footprint of an A4 sheet of paper. [click to continue…]
Engadget managed to get some hands-on time with the Skiff e-reader that we mentioned a couple of days ago.
The Skiff has an 11.5 inch screen that has an impressive resolution of 1,600 x 1,200 pixels. It allows a full newspaper page to be loaded up with ads and yet be still readable. The e-reader is not a one off device as we are looking at a publishing platform here. Four different devices are being loocked at including a colour e-reader and applications to load up on the Palm Pre as well a the Viliv MID. [click to continue…]
Just a few days ago we posted some press shots of the Light Touch, a device built by Light Blue Optics that aims to turn surfaces in to working computers by projecting an image and picking up when the image is touched.
The company have their Light Touch on display at CES this year and it looks as good as the press shots show it to be. The system uses full colour holographic laser to reproduce the image on any surface. By using laser the image always stays in focus regardless of how far the surface is away. [click to continue…]
3M are launching a new multitouch screen that measures 22 inches and is capable of capturing input from up to 10 fingers. The screen is called the M2256PW and runs at a high-definition resolution of 1680 x 1050 pixels. The new LCD screen is aimed at professionals and professional consumers who are looking for true multi-touch compatibility.
Utilizing this new technology, software developers are able to revolutionize the way users interact with all types of information and to expand traditional touch interaction to include multiple users and increase collaboration. “Consumers and prosumers have come to expect multi-touch functionality in their everyday electronic devices”, Tsourides says. “The release of the M2256PW display provides a technological leap in multi-touch interactivity, surpassing traditional two-finger multi-touch by providing full, 10-finger multi-touch capability.”
The 3M MPro150 Pico Projector is an update to the previous MPro120 model that was launched a few months ago.
The new version of the projector has 1GB of memory built in and a microSD card slot allowing you to easily attach media up to the projector while on the move.
The projector has can display a 15 lumen image that can go up to 50 inches in size. As well as being able to read a microSD card there is also software built in that can read PDF and MS office documents and display them direct from the memory card. [click to continue…]
Samsung have a small 14 inch 3D screen on show at CES this year that measures just 1.6mm thin. It’s odd to think a TV this thin can actually be built. As with all ultra thin TV’s that we have seen recently, this Samsung prototype also features a pedestal stand where the bulk of the electronics are stored to keep as much away from the back of the panel as needed.
The screen it’s self is capable of showing 3D images. Unfortunately it’s about 3 years away from being mass produced due to the costs involved in having anything big enough to fit in the living room at a decent price, but as all technology continues to drop in price we’ll sometime in the next few years see screens this thin in stores at today’s thicker TV prices. [click to continue…]
At CES, Samsung unveiled a laptop that has a transparent OLED screen that can let up to 40% light through it from the background. Although it might not be fully practical in a laptop design a transparent OLED screen has applications elsewhere such as being embedded on to the wind-shield of your car allowing navigation to be overlayed on to the road ahead.
The current maximum transparency on other screens is only 25%, so bumping that up to 40% by Samsung is a good achievement. [click to continue…]
