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| NASA Creates the World's Highest Resolution Visualization System |  | NASA unveiled last week the world's highest resolution visualization system, dubbed Hyperwall-2, an event that took place at the Ames Research Center. The new system isn't meant for commercial use and will serve the scientists over at NASA who need to study small details and specs featured in the very large datasets produced by the agency’s supercomputers.
The system has been developed by scientists and engineers in ... [read more >>] | | 30 June 2008, 05:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The World's First 21.5-inch Full HD LCD Display |  | BenQ has announced on Friday the "world's first 21.5-inch Full HD LCD display" as part of their lineup of high-quality LCD monitors. The new product is meant to provide a high quality alternative to the Full HD LCDs already on the market. The company also announced that it would release five new 21.5-inch and 24-inch Full HD 16:9 models that will make their debut later this year, as part of the company's E series and M ... [read more >>] | | 23 June 2008, 06:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| World's Slimmest 22-inch Widescreen Monitor |  | If you think that, these days, ASUS is only about the Eee PCs, you couldn’t be more wrong if you tried. As proof for that, the computer hardware and consumer electronics manufacturer has unveiled yesterday "the world's slimmest 22-inch widescreen LCD monitor." According to the company, the new product aims to provide users with a high-quality display alternative for today's home entertainment centers.
The n ... [read more >>] | | 13 June 2008, 09:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| TV Row 1.3 – Put Front Row on Your TV Set |  | Ever thought of putting Front Row on your TV set? You know you can, right? All you need is bpt's TV Row installed on your Mac. The Leopard-only app lets you have Front Row on your TV without the fuss of having to re-arrange the displays in preferences. Updated to ... [read more >>] | | 13 June 2008, 04:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| World's First Affordable Color-Critical Display Released by HP |  | For those of you that were, or still are, too busy with the Computex 2008 computer trade show or with Apple's World Wide Developers Conference 2008, you should know that HP is also holding an event, entitled Connecting Your World. Lasting from the 8 until the 11 of June in Berlin, this event is just the place to be if you want to find out more on HP’s latest products.
Coming from the Connecting Your World are a number of ... [read more >>] | | 10 June 2008, 06:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Acer Rolls out Full-HD 24-inch Display |  | So far, it’s been quite an impressive week for Acer, one of the leading manufacturers of portable computer systems. The company, which acquired Gateway back in 2007, has displayed at this year's Computex trade show in Taipei its very own low-cost notebook. Dubbed the Aspire One ... [read more >>] | | 06 June 2008, 03:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Epson Unveils 13.4-inch Electronic Paper |  | Epson is one of the largest manufacture of computer electronics, with a main focus on dot matrix, inkjet and laser printers. Although the Japanese company is better known for its printing devices, it also deals with products such as electronic paper. And it's exactly this field where they have just released a new prototype. Showcased at the Society for Information Display gathering, held this year in Los Angeles, the new 13. ... [read more >>] | | 22 May 2008, 11:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Seal Makes OLEDs Moisture-free |  | Organic light emitting diodes, or OLEDs for short, are now viewed as the future of solid state displays, mostly because they are easy to manufacture and much more efficient at converting electric energy into light. Nevertheless, the OLED design is flawed by the fact that they are very susceptible to moisture, which interacts with the organic material and destroys the OLEDs. Georgia Tech Institute Researcher Wusheng Tong claims to ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2008, 10:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| HP Delivers 1 Billion Colors Display Technology |  | Hewlett-Packard is readying a new color display technology that is allegedly able to deliver 1 billion colors for a life-like viewing experience. The new technology, developed in collaboration with DreamWork Animations, will be deployed across all the company's product lines.
The new display technology will play a key factor in preserving vibrant colors throughout the movie production process, as well as in printing. Acco ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 03:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Panasonic Plasma Displays for Cell Phones – A Lie |  | A press release appeared yesterday on the Web, on trusted sites that usually publish press releases, announcing that Panasonic, the giant Japanese electronics manufacturer, together with AbleComm, will soon roll-out plasma displays for mobile phones. These mini ... [read more >>] | | 04 April 2008, 17:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Small Light Bulb Overpowers LEDs |  | Behold the new LIFI 4000, the light plasma bulb the size of a Tic-Tac and capable of producing even more light than a typical gas discharge light bulb! The new plasma bulb has been developed by the Luxim Corporation, a company located in Sunnyvale, California, specialized in lighting technologies. Luxim promises to bring intense long-life light output for projection displays and a complete light spectrum to create a vivid image quality.
... [read more >>] | | 21 March 2008, 08:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Matrox Unveils Remote Multi-Monitor Setup Controller |  | Matrox has just unveiled its newest multiple-monitor controller, called the Veos, that can create multiple monitor configurations even if they are located at significant distances. Matrox has quite some experience when it comes to multiple monitor setups, as it has previously released the DualHeads2Go appliance.
This time, Matrox is making a comeback with improved technology, that can operate multiple monitors situated at maxi ... [read more >>] | | 10 March 2008, 13:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Bionic Eye: Fully-Fledged LCD Display In a Contact Lens |  | Just when we thought that the four-panel ccurved monitor from Alienware was the next big thing in the display industry, researchers at the University of Washington announced a new type of hybrid contact lens that will bring to life the Terminator withi ... [read more >>] | | 03 March 2008, 09:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| BenQ Unveils X Series Gaming LCD Monitor |  | BenQ has officially presented today the new X series LCD displays to include the BenQ X900, X900W, X2000W and X2200W. The X series is equipped with the BenQ patented technologies such as Senseye and Game and is committed to delivering different viewing experiences using the six preset operation modes: Standard, Dynamic, Movies, Photos, Action Game and Racing Game.
The displays address to game enthusiasts as well as multimedi ... [read more >>] | | 05 December 2007, 09:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Thinking About Monitor Replacement? Go Widescreen! |  | There are no spare parts for the eyes, no matter how much you are (ironically) looking for. There comes a time when a good investment would help save infinitely more and this is the case with displays. Well, Benq comes with a handy solution that will comfort both your eyes and the budget.
Benq's FP93VW is a 19-inch display that doesn't miss the fashion aspect of a product. With a glossy white finish, the display woul ... [read more >>] | | 27 November 2007, 11:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Viva e-Book Revolution! Ultra-Dense e-Paper Display On The Way... |  | This might actually be the end of the conventional book reading with more and more e-book readers popping out on the market every day. And yet, things are rapidly changing, as Seiko Epson today introduced a new electronic paper display that may significantly improve the quality of eBook readers.
The makers have come out with a revolutionary 6.7-inch screen, capable of producing the same 1600 x 1200 resolution as a 20-inch des ... [read more >>] | | 19 November 2007, 04:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung Brings Breakthrough OLED Display |  | Samsung will start mass production of Active Matrix OLED displays for mobile phones and other handheld devices. In no time, it will be available for mobile phones as well and even become a standard feature.
Samsung's new AMOLED display supports QVGA resolutions of 240 x 320 pixels and is also capable of producing a range of over sixteen million colors. The self-luminous device works by having electrical current flow betw ... [read more >>] | | 09 November 2007, 03:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| ViewSonic Intros a 19-inch LCD |  | ViewSonic just announced the launch of a new 19-inch widescreen computer display, commercially available under the VX1940w designation, that comes with a native resolution of 1680 by 1050 pixels and which will hit the consumer market segment sometime in the middle of November.
According to the news site digitimes, th ... [read more >>] | | 09 October 2007, 11:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Dell Presents a Nice 20-in LCD |  | It looks like Dell plans to expand its range of LCD monitors aimed at the home and office computer users with a new widescreen display that comes with a viewable area of 20 inches and this product is called SP2008WFP and it will be priced at an affordable $289.
This new product is the first ever flat panel LCD monitor from Dell to integrate a microphone and a Web camera so it looks that the manufacturing company is finally get ... [read more >>] | | 27 September 2007, 10:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| NEC Presents a 24-inch LCD Monitor |  | NEC Display Solutions of America announced the launch of a new desktop computer monitor from the MultiSync range of products that will soon be available on the general consumer market under the LCD2470WVX designation. This new NEC display system comes in a widescreen format and it is specifically designed for enterprises and performance centered users as it comes with a rich palette of features, while also providing excellent performance a ... [read more >>] | | 27 September 2007, 10:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Laptop Display Standards Emerging |  | While laptop and notebook computer systems were first designed to be portable devices and their entire internal and external architectures were aimed toward that end, nowadays a new breed of mobile computer systems are hitting the market and making pretty big waves too, the desktop replacement systems, that are sporting big screens and pretty bulky cases.
This does not mean that the days of the portable computer systems are ov ... [read more >>] | | 27 September 2007, 04:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| BenQ Comes Out with Four New Mainstream Projectors |  | Although it's been through quite a tough time lately, the BenQ company managed to survive, to some extent, after pulling off all sorts of maneuvers, spin-offs and so on. Right now, the former BenQ has become a branded company, after the separation from Qisda Corporation and perhaps in order to mark their newfound "life", it has come up with several interesting products, including no less than 4 mainstream projectors, namely ... [read more >>] | | 24 September 2007, 12:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| VIEWSONIC Goes For Quality and Low Price Tags |  | As LCD computer monitors are very popular, a rift normally appeared between the truly high solutions that offer high native resolutions and features and the more budget oriented displays that are coming with fewer bells and whistles while sporting affordable prices. The hardware manufacturing company ViewSonic plans to close that gap with its new range of affordable LCD based computer monitors that are set to offer the increased clarity, v ... [read more >>] | | 22 September 2007, 05:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| China Attracts LCD Manufacturers |  | AU Optronics, better known as AUO, is a Taiwanese manufacturing company that is active in the LCD business and it announced that it started operations at its newest production facility located in China. The Chinese plant is a ''giant'' and the company expects to increase its output by at least 50 percent.
The production plant, which is located in south east China is going to produce LCD screens for the grea ... [read more >>] | | 12 September 2007, 09:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The New Rotating 24-inch HP LCD |  | Large screed LCD computer monitors are becoming very popular as their price tag goes down and their features list grows. Once they were targeted at the few graphics designer professionals that could afford them, now they are very popular among gamers and computer enthusiasts: the 24-inch widescreen format LCD computer monitors. In an attempt to make the most from the increasing demand of widescreen LCD computer monitors, HP is going to pus ... [read more >>] | | 04 September 2007, 11:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung Electronics Integrates LCD Monitors and VoIP |  | Samsung Electronics just announced the release of two brand new LCD monitors with integrated VoIP functions which are intended to allow users to make video calls over the Internet without the need of additional hardware. The two 22 inch monitors, the SyncMaster 220TN and the SyncMaster 225UW, are optimized for video conferencing as they need only a LAN cable and an Internet connection for their VoIP functions to operate even without a comp ... [read more >>] | | 01 September 2007, 05:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Philips LCD Monitors |  | Philips announced recently the launch of a new range of multimedia LCD screens and monitors which are intended for use as home entertainment devices as they feature advanced technologies that deliver sharp images alongside faster than usual response times being perfect for gaming and movie watching. Ranging in size from 17 to 22 inches and coming with both the traditional 4:3 and the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratios the new Philips range of m ... [read more >>] | | 01 September 2007, 05:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A High Resolution LCD Monitor for Gamers |  | iZ3D, a new LCD monitor manufacturing company based in San Diego, announced the launch of a monitor designed for gamers. Featuring an impressive 22 inch widescreed, the iZ3D gaming monitor comes with a serious price tag of almost $1000, but when looking for the best in class image quality and high desktop real estate, such a high price is only to be expected, right?
According to the manufacturing company, iZ3D, the new gaming ... [read more >>] | | 29 August 2007, 08:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Flexible Color Displays |  | The market for computer and home entertainment displays is always looking for higher definitions, less energy consumption, easier setup and better overall image quality. Well, a Canadian research team may have the answer to all the problems encountered by the display industry so far, as their display prototype brings a radical new idea and design.
Unlike conventional displays, this prototype has its pixels made of photonic cry ... [read more >>] | | 24 August 2007, 10:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Planar's PX LCD Lineup |  | As LCD displays for computers are becoming more and more affordable, the demand for bigger screens, mostly in the wide aspect format is rising, prompting monitor manufacturers to come out with new lines of products in an attempt to satisfy the market's demand.
One of the LCD screens manufacturer and vendor, Planar Systems just announced the release of its latest line of products that includes displays with wide aspect for ... [read more >>] | | 22 August 2007, 10:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Plasma Displays Beaten by LCDs |  | As an industry standard in computer displays, TV sets and a lot of other applications, liquid crystal displays, LCDs for short, are beating up just about any other standard that tries to gain a foothold and acceptance on the market. After successfully replacing the old CRT displays in most computers and having a good market share in the TV sets segment, LCDs are now taking over the plasma display panels, or PDPs for short. As the competiti ... [read more >>] | | 13 August 2007, 09:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The PS3 Gets a 7-Inch LCD Strapped on It |  | If you want to imagine that the heavy PS3 console is portable, one of the logical steps you'd have to follow is strapping an LCD display on it. Nevover Electronics took this chance, as you can see in the picture on the left and now gamers will be able to enjoy next-gen graphics a ... [read more >>] | | 13 August 2007, 03:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD's Graphics Products Adopt The DisplayPort 1.1 |  | DisplayPort 1.1 is the new industry standard for large displays and AMD's graphics division, formerly known as the independent company ATI, announced the successful testing of a next generation graphics processor featuring a native DisplayPort 1.1 transmitter that connected with no problems to a Genesis Microchip DisplayPort receiver. The Video and Electronics Standards Association (VESA for short) will subject the new graphics chip t ... [read more >>] | | 02 August 2007, 05:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Throw Away The LCDs, Welcome The Chameleon |  | A liquid that changes its color when exposed to a magnetic field, recently discovered by U.S. researchers, could easily and cheaply replace the color components of computer LCD displays. The liquid is in fact a suspension of tiny iron particles coated in a special plastic, and because it is so cheap and easy to make, its applications could be very numerous.
Yadong Yin and colleagues at the Department of Chemistry at University ... [read more >>] | | 18 July 2007, 04:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Display Challenges Existing LCDs |  | The electronics industry is involved in a continuous race to make today’s TV screens and cell phones more efficient, cheaper and of a higher quality. LCDs are one of the most popular types of commercially available displays, but a newcomer is about to challenge their position.
Weijia Wen and colleagues at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, recently developed a new type of display, which is flexible, lightwei ... [read more >>] | | 06 July 2007, 05:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Minilyrics – Spells Your Favorite Songs |  | Having your music played has become such a regular activity that installing a full featured music player on your computer is absolutely compulsory. Players now provide sophisticated plug-ins and complex features, but it’s not about them I want to talk here. Personally, I enjoy small ad-ons that do a great job in the long run. You can listen to music in many ways, and sometimes maybe you’re not even paying attention to details, but this tim ... [read more >>] | | 30 June 2007, 11:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Flexible Display Will Soon Bring Bending Portable TVs to Market |  | It won't be long until people around the world will be able to enjoy their favorite book with included animation, in the form of flexible electronic displays, or e-paper. Portable TVs could eventually be carried in a pocket and rolled out when the favorite show is on.
Flexible electronics, also known as flex circuits or flex circuit boards, represent a technology for building electronic circuits by depositing electronic ... [read more >>] | | 07 June 2007, 10:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Interactive Paper Displays |  | Digital paper, also known as interactive paper, is patterned paper used in conjunction with a digital pen to create handwritten digital documents. The printed dot pattern uniquely identifies the position coordinates on the paper. The digital pen uses this pattern to store the handwriting and upload it to a computer. It should not be confused with electronic paper.
A team of scientists in Sweden claims that this paper can transform [ADM ... [read more >>] | | 05 June 2007, 04:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Transparent Transistors Made from Nanowires |  | Organic light has fascinated mankind for centuries and the quest to replicate nature's engineering abilities has preoccupied many scientists. An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) is any light-emitting diode (LED) whose emissive electroluminescent layer comprises a film of organic compounds.
The layer usually contains a polymer substance that allows suitable organic compounds to be deposited. They are deposited in rows ... [read more >>] | | 04 June 2007, 10:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| First Nanoscale UV LEDs Ever Produced |  | A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits incoherent narrow-spectrum light through a form of electroluminescence. LEDs are small extended sources with extra optics added to the chip, which emit a complex intensity spatial distribution. The color of the emitted light depends on the composition and condition of the semiconducting material used and can be infrared, visible or near-ultraviolet.
Now, for the first t ... [read more >>] | | 28 May 2007, 15:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Thinnest Video Display Ever – by Sony |  | The electronics industry is involved in a continuous race to make today’s TV screens and cell phones more efficient, cheaper and of a higher quality. The race for developing the thinnest video display ever seems to have a winner. Sony just presented a paper-thin video display that bends like paper while showing full-color video.
At SID-2007 Sony shows the first full color flexible OLED Display. Producing a 2.5-inch prototype weighing ... [read more >>] | | 28 May 2007, 02:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Dell Showcases Super-thin LCDs with Display Port |  | So... you think DVI and HDMI video connectors are here to stay? While they surely provide premium image quality, Dell thinks these standards are a bit obsolete and rolls in its latest LCD displays with Display Port support. Display Port? What's this? Some new marketing scheme? In fact it is the new standard in image display and it should be widely adopted in 2008 if all goes well.
Dell has recently presented its redef ... [read more >>] | | 21 May 2007, 11:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 20,000:1 Contrast Ratios with Pioneer's 8th Generation Plasmas |  | With laser HDTVs, OLED displays and SED/FED technologies just around the corner, the LCD and plasma displays look like they could use some enhancements if they want to continue their existence on the market. Sure, there has been a gradual price drop of the LCD/plasma HDTV displays but this just isn't enough to keep them on our near-future buy-lists when new impressive technologies prove there's room for improved visual ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2007, 10:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung Releases LCD and PDP HDTV Lineup |  | For all you “I must have a 1080p HDTV in order to be happy” users out there, Samsung has taken heed of your complaints, and is now revealing an entirely new lineup of flat-panel LCD and PDP HDTVs, thus leaving you the decision of what kind of other “over the top” product to buy in order to display digital content in HDTV format. The choices are many, from a new graphics card that will set you a couple of hundred dollars back, to a Blu-ray ... [read more >>] | | 18 April 2007, 06:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| LaCie 526 Promisses 95 Percents of the AdobeRGB |  | If your job involves working a lot with Photoshop, Quark, and other similar software, then the most important thing for you is to get exactly what you see, or to see what you get. Either way, if you are designing something that will end up on a building, your 2-pixel mistake might end-up being 3 feet tall on the side of that building, and your boss will hate that.
This is why LaCie has made a 26-inch wide-screen LCD monitor wh ... [read more >>] | | 13 April 2007, 10:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| LG.Philips LCD Expands to New Grounds |  | The European Union rules and regulations imply having increased taxes for products that are being manufactured in Asia. Of course, the main purpose of this rule is to make the Europeans buy stuff that are made in, you guessed it, Europe, and shy away from the oh, so dreaded Made in China logo. But this rule applies to the countries that are a part of the European Union; those that haven't adhered yet are not subdued to this ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2007, 10:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| LCD Monitors Could Replace the LCD TV Market |  | Back in the days, having a monitor which could represent more than two colors was considered the coolest thing you could have. Now people have developed a certain seventh sense, not sixth sense, that usually refers to the paranormal part of the deal and that's not what I've had in mind. This seventh sense is the “I am a perfectionist in disguise” sense, and usually appears in the close proximity of highly advanced techn ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2007, 06:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung Announces New LCD Mobile Display |  | Samsung Electronics, one of the world's largest provider of thin-film transistor, liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels announced earlier this week that it has developed a 2.1" LCD panel for high-end mobile devices that will provide ... [read more >>] | | 27 March 2007, 08:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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