Amazon's Kindle Fire has its hardware and software shaved down to a bare minimum and woven together in a delicate mesh. But even Fire's weakness strengthens Amazon. READ»
After years bubbling under the success radar, Pixel Qi has revealed a large high-resolution screen that works indoors and outdoors with equal ease. If it succeeds, it could change how and where you use computers.READ»
A breakthrough in foldable OLED screen tech means a display can be folded in half like a sheet of paper without creasing. It's no exaggeration to say this could change every mobile device's design.READ»
All the world's a display -- or it soon will be, if companies like Intel have their way. A sponsor at this Las Vegas expo, Intel is the computing power behind concepts like a vending machine covered in a giant LCD touch screen. When ...READ»
The European Commission has landed six LCD panel makers with a collective fine of over $800 million for a price-fixing cartel that operated between 2001 and 2006. Samsung, for ratting out its fellow fixers, had its fine nixed.READ»
We've been hearing about Pixel Qi's half-E-ink, half-LCD tech for ages, but with new info on its development it looks like it's about to burst onto the mainstream. Seven-inch tablet PCs may earn Pixel Qi some deserved limelight.READ»
Need any evidence that the dedicated e-reader is destined to become a mere niche-appeal device? Here you go: Tech giant Samsung is ditching its clever, and long-heritage e-paper business. READ»
Qualcomm is about to invest some $2 billion in small change in a new plant for Mirasol displays--the half-LCD/half-e-ink screen tech that can play video in sunlight. It's all thanks to a "major client." Are we talking Amazon here?READ»
E-Ink's CEO said that the company will be releasing both color and touchscreen e-ink displays for e-book readers within a year. It's too bad nobody will want one.READ»
E-paper isn't just for e-readers like the Kindle, or at least it won't be if a new tech from a firm called Nemoptic comes to fruition. The kind of e-paper display used in the Kindle, from market-leader E-Ink (electrophoretic e-paper), ...READ»
Apple's IPS LCD display tech may be the bees knees of current tablet screens, but there're rivals out there, such as the Kindle's e-ink system. There's also Pixel Qi, which is a daylight-viewable LCD alternative -- and it's just got ...READ»
Samsung's peered into its cellphone crystal ball and found that the future is one where smartphones, maybe with OLED screens, supersede dumbphones. So ditch that old Nokia 8310 now!READ»
Without e-ink's technology, e-readers as an entire genre of portable gizmos wouldn't really exist: The paper and ink-like display is their main selling point. Yet e-ink's far from perfect, which is why you'll want to see next-gen ...READ»
Photovoltaic solar power may be the bees knees in green power cleverness, but you still have to work out how to mount the panels on your building. That's going to be much easier now a Dutch company has combined them with ...READ»
Pixel Qi's screen tech is impressive in many ways, and neatly solves the e-ink versus LCD question at one stroke. It's curiously not available on many devices, however. Until now, that is: Pixel Qi is releasing a DIY mod kit for ...READ»
Both Amazon and Apple have new advertisements for job openings at their companies that, if you read into the details just a little, give away many a detail on the upcoming Kindle versus iPad conflict. It's going to be very ...READ»
There's news from PVI, the makers of the Kindle's e-ink screen, that they've got new versions coming this year that'll update fast enough for "animation," have touchscreens and color. The question is, is it too little to late?
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It's becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of all the acronyms for high-definition TV technology--plasma, LED, LCD, DLP, OLED, and now...LPD? A Silicon Valley-based startup called Prysm has developed a Laser Phosphor Display ...READ»
