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.

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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. [Read more…]

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. [Read more…]

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. [Read more…]

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.”

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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. [Read more…]

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. [Read more…]

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. [Read more…]

CrunchGear spotted an ultra-thin TV at CES called the LG LEF. Unfortunately nobody knew anything about it, not even the LG reps. The most they could offer was that it landed in Vegas straight out of Korea.

The TV measures about 1/4 of an inch in thickness making it very slim. The main functions of the TV are held in the block base that supports the TV with the screen and backlight being housed in glass alone which allows for the ultra-thin TV to be just that… ultra-thin. [Read more…]

Samsung have unveiled a number of TV’s over at CES 2010. The top of the range TV to be revealed is the Samsung LED 9000 series ultra-thin screen that achieves it’s thinness by cramming a lot of the innards in to the pedestal it sits on.

The screen it’s self looks great and runs at 240Hz to allow for smoother video to be run. A unique remote control was also launched that is capable of showing content on it’s screen from other video sources making it very unique.

The TV follows on with the 2010 theme of 3D and will be capable of transforming regular 2D content in to 3D (somehow) as well as being able to play 3D content that’s due out later this year. [Read more…]

CPT have created a new 21.5 inch projected capacitive touch screen panel and have sent it for validation by their clients.

As well as having a nice sized capacitive touchscreen panel, the company have also started shipping a 10.1 inch projective capacitive touch panel as well as 3D panels.

As well as creating projected capacitive touch panels the company are also looking at using optical touch and in-cell photo sensing with the latter two here possibly shipping early next year. [Read more…]

The USB Gadget Display is a tiny LCD screen measuring just 1.5 inches. The screen is designed to sit next your PC or laptop and provide feedback from sites such as Twitter and Facebook.

The screen is labelled as being inexpensive and can display full colour. As well as showing Twitter and Facebook updates the USB display gadget can also show various other gadgets such as clocks, CPU and memory meters as well as games and timers. [Read more…]