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iPhone Beating E-Readers at Their Own Game?

Kit Eaton — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:34:11 -0500

With the iPhone still the hottest smartphone, there's much speculation about how its future will pan out. For some the money's on gaming, but new research from Flurry is surprisingly different: eBook apps are overtaking games in the App Store.

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Spring's Dual-Screen, Color, Web-Browsing E-Reader Poses a Serious Threat to the Kindle

Kit Eaton — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:26:17 -0400

Gizmodo's leak of Barnes and Noble's twin-screen e-reader with a color display was a pleasant surprise last week, but not for Spring Design. The company just revealed its own e-reader, obviously in response--and it's very similar.

OLEDs Could Be as Cheap as Newspaper to Produce

Ariel Schwartz — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:11:23 -0400

Plasma televisions are already on the outs with consumers due to their energy-sucking tendencies, meanwhile LCD screens have closed the gap on picture quality and are more energy efficient. But as many TV buffs know, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screens are the future--if scientists can figure out how to produce them cheaply enough.

Micro VGA Screen is Another Step Toward Displays Everywhere

Kit Eaton — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:26:38 -0400

While the world moves on to more advanced display tech, there's still wiggle room to improve the old LCD system. Kopin Corp. has done exactly that--they've made a full-color VGA screen that's just a quarter inch across.

LCD Electronic 'Skin' Makes Everything Into a Display

Kit Eaton — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:08:58 -0400

An improvement to decades-old LCD technology promises to turn the surface of almost anything into a full-color digital display. At the very least, it brings color-changing gadgets closer to reality.

Sharp's New Five-Color LCD Displays 99% of Visible Colors, But Not on Your TV

Kit Eaton — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:25:59 -0400

LCDs may be on the verge of being superseded by OLED tech, but Sharp still found room for innovation. The electronics company just released news about a new invention--an LCD that can generate 99% of the colors you can see on real surfaces.

Your 40-Inch OLED TV Will Arrive in 2010, Thanks to Panasonic

Kit Eaton — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:03:48 -0400

I know you're fond of your nice, new LCD HDTV, I know--it's much better than the big CRT brute you had before. But, and trust me on this, you're going to want to buy a whole new TV next year. It's going to be OLED you see, and it may come from Panasonic.

Step Aside E-Ink: The Electrofluidic Future of E-Paper Is Here

Kit Eaton — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:21:04 -0400

The term "electrofluidic" conjures up worrisome visions of a mix of electricity and water, but it's actually the rather nifty technology being demonstrated by start-up Gamma Dynamics as the future of electronic paper. It's exciting because it's the closest approximation yet to "real" printing.

Panasonic Releasing 37-Inch OLED TV Within Two Years

Ariel Schwartz — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:23:43 -0400

OLED TVs are undoubtedly the future of TV technology--they're thin, contain minimal parts, and use up to 50% less energy than LCD TVs (and significantly less than plasma, which uses as much energy as a large refrigerator). The only problem has been size, the technology for manufacturing OLED is difficult to scale for large screen sizes.

Finally: Chic 3rd-Party LCDs for Macs

Chris Dannen — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:57:03 -0400

If you have a Mac--or just want to look like you do, from the desk up--then you've probably considered (and reconisidered) purchasing one of their outrageously expensive Studio Displays, which run $900 for a 24-inch and $1800 for a 30-inch. In the end, you were probably lulled away from the chic Apple offering by a sub-$400 display from Dell or Samsung. Well, now you might have your chance to get that Apple cachet on the cheap.

Samsung's New HDTVs Are Model Skinny and Widget Powered

Kit Eaton — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:02:42 -0400

HDTVs have become so commonplace, retailers such as Best Buy think they're necessities and not luxuries. For consumer-electronics companies to distinguish themselves in the marketplace, they need novelty. To that end, look at what Samsung's doing with its latest batch of televisions. The new Series 7 sets are being sold with two key features: They're ultra-thin thanks to some clever lighting designs, and they'll come with on-screen Net-connected widgets.

Desirable Rumor: iPhone 3.0 to Have OLED Screen

Kit Eaton — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:46:38 -0400

Combining two fabulous technologies into one item always sounds like a winner. And the rumor that Apple's screamingly successful iPhone will be combined with the hot-to-trot next-gen display technology of OLED sounds more like a World-beater.

Why Are Samsung's LCD TV Sales Still Booming?

Chris Dannen — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:31:50 -0400

In spite of the worsening economy, U.S. sales of LCD televisions are already up 20% over January and February of last year (and up 50% in Europe), according to vice chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics Lee Yoon-woo.

LG Adds Photo-Frame Tech To TVs

Kit Eaton — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:02:14 -0500

Given that an LCD TV is basically a large digital photo frame with added video-processing power, this innovation from LG has taken a surprising while. And LG's new 47-inch "Digital Photo TV" goes one stage further than just acting as a dumb photo display: it manages to show photos while it's actually in standby mode.

Battle Of The Thinnest TVs At CES 2009

Kit Eaton — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:22:00 -0500

When news of LG's LH95 "thinnest" LCD TV hit last week, we should've predicted that it was just the first of a series of similar product announcements. At CES 2009, it seems that TV makers are trying to out-do one another with debuts of the skinniest/lightest LCD HDTVs.

LG's LH95 is World's Thinnest LED-Lit LCD TV

Kit Eaton — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:54:58 -0500

The LH95 television due for unveiling at CES 2009 makes it sound like LCD technology has just taken an incredible advance. That's because LG is branding it as the world's thinnest LED-illuminated LCD TV.

LG's 14.1-Inch Laptop Display Works In Sunlight

Kit Eaton — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:46:23 -0500

LG's showing neat display technology in its new 14.1-inch LCD screen for laptops: It's apparently the first that lets you switch between back-lit and transreflective modes at the flick of a switch. And that means you can see the display when you're using your laptop outside.

Inside The Chevy Volt [pics]

Fast Company staff — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:30:25 -0500

Amid record losses, plunging sales, a stock that has sunk as low as its 1950 price, and awkward merger talks, the 100-year old carmaker is hoping that its new Chevy, due in 2010, can reenergize its image and its bottom line. Volt design director Bob Boniface says his team wanted to make sure the car looked better than other electric-car concepts (judge for yourself).

Mercedes Splitview Screen: Get Lost And Watch Movies At The Same Time

Kit Eaton — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:13:45 -0500

Mercedes is going to add its Splitview screens to S-class cars next year, a luxury extra that adds the ability for driver and passenger to view two different things at once on the same dashboard display. One passenger can view the GPS, for example, while the other watches Cannonball Run.

Tech Watch: Google Knows If Your Kids Have The Flu

Chris Dannen — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:15:10 -0500

Google has refrained from being evil since its inception, but now the search giant appears to be going above and beyond their self-proclaimed mission statement by doing U.S. citizens some good.

Dell Announces Spiffy, Economical LCDs

Chris Dannen — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:28:39 -0400

Dell [DELL] has just announced two new flat-screen monitors whose price-points fall right in the sweet spot: sub-$200, that is. These two new models come on the heels of larger, more expensive models that range 22, 23 and 24 inches. The cheaper younger brothers will measure 17 and 19 inches, rounding out the line-up.

Casio Shows Off "Transmissive" LCD

Chris Dannen — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:36:33 -0400

Blame it on translation error, but Casio's [TYO:6952] badly-named "Blanview" LCD technology doesn't sound all that interesting. The name belies the fact that the new LCDs have the potential to be a small breakthrough in mobile computing. They're "transmissive," meaning they can pull in exterior light to allow the pixels to be viewable, making them usable without a backlight in bright settings. Traditional LCDs need their backlights cranked all the way up to compete with sunlight, which obscures their colors and makes them appear dark.

Samsung Announces World's First 82-inch Multi-touch LCD

Chris Dannen — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:11:37 -0400

This week Samsung will announce the world's largest LCD television, coming in at 82 inches, with a resolution of 3,840 by 2,160 pixels at a 120Hz refresh rate (known as a “2160p” rating). This level of clarity qualifies it as an “ultra high definition” display, and its impressive picture quality will be bolstered by a red/green/blue LED backlight that will raise true color saturation to 150 percent. This HDTV tops the former record-holder for World's Largest by a sizable margin; the title once belonged to a 65-inch LCD TV made by Sharp.