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Motorola Corvair photos leaked

Chris Burns, Nov 5th 2011 Discuss [4]

It appears that Motorola has had a bit of a leak this week in the form of not only some packaging but in the device itself, the device being one called Motorola Corvair, an Android 2.3 Gingerbread tablet that acts as a television controller. Besides that, the source of this leak, Nilay Patel of The Verge, notes that the device is in testing with cable companies right now. The devices true abilities remain somewhat of a mystery, but what seems clear is that it'll be a media controller with large displays in mind. Read The Full Story

Viewsonic launches 23-inch V3D231 3D LCD using passive glasses

Shane McGlaun, Nov 2nd 2011 Discuss [2]

Viewsonic has been around for a long time making all sorts of display products from LCDs and TVs to projectors and more. The company has a new LCD for the computer user that it has announced that offers 3D technology. Rather than having, to use expensive and bulky active technology glasses. The screen measures in at 23-inches wide. Read The Full Story

World’s largest glasses-free 3D display shown in Japan

Rue Liu, Nov 1st 2011 Discuss [3]

Japans' National Institute of Information and Communications (NICT) along with JVC Kenwood have jointly developed a 200-inch auto-stereoscopic Full HD 3D display, which is being touted as the world's largest glasses-free 3D display to date. The screen allows you to watch a video from 57 different angles, which means that you can even see the sides of 3D objects. Read The Full Story

LCD panel firms in South Korea fined a total of $176M

Shane McGlaun, Nov 1st 2011 Discuss [0]

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission have fined ten LCD panel makers operating inside the country a total of $176 million or 195 billion won. The fines were for allegedly holding meetings with the goal of keeping the prices of LCD screens artificially high. This is not the first time the LCD industry has been busted holding meetings over price fixing in the industry. Read The Full Story

AUO brings transparent displays to vending machines [Video]

Chris Burns, Oct 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

This week in Yokohama the folks at AUO are showing off more than one transparent AMOLED display, the largest of which appears to be fully functional on a full-sized vending machine. What you'll see below is a machine that'll give you a bottle of water at the same time as it displays a jungle, complete with a giraffe head, monkeys, and a chicken, all of them playing for your entertainment. Not only this, the entire 65-inch display is entirely touch sensitive, so you can order your drink by simply tapping. Read The Full Story

CMI 720p 4.3-inch glasses-free 3D smartphone display revealed

Chris Davies, Oct 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

Chimei Innolux (CMI) has revealed a new 4.3-inch smartphone display, offering glasses-free 3D as well as 720p HD resolution support. The new screen combines a CMI TFT panel running at 1280 x 720 resolution with Cell-Matrix Parallax Barrier technology from MasterImage 3D, the specialist 3D company that Samsung invested $15m in back in March. Read The Full Story

Cinq second laptop screen now available

Shane McGlaun, Oct 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

Working from a laptop is no fun for a couple reasons. One the keyboard is generally too small for my tastes and the second issue is the screens are too small. If you have to work from laptop, but you are tired of the small screen issue the Cinq screen for laptop users is now shipping. This is a little screen that is 10.1-inches that clips onto the side of your laptop. Read The Full Story

NEC TeleScouter offers wearable AR with Borg style

Chris Davies, Oct 20th 2011 Discuss [0]

NEC has launched a wearable computer, the NEC TeleScouter, intended to allow fieldworkers to consult a virtual 16-inch transparent display projected in front of them while they go about their business. Consisting of a Brother AirScouter wearable display and a compact 500MHz ARM-based computer packing WiFi a/b/g and Bluetooth, the system currently targets industrial augmented reality (AR) applications, but NEC sees the future being far broader. Read The Full Story

Toshiba 6-inch tablet display offers 498ppi print-quality

Chris Davies, Oct 20th 2011 Discuss [5]

Toshiba has revealed its latest high-resolution display, a 6.1-inch panel that runs at a whopping 2,560 x 1,600 and which could allow for tablets capable of photo-quality graphics. The new panel, which has a Retina Display busting pixel density of 498ppi, delivers well in excess of Full HD resolution in a screen smaller than you'd find on, say, a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7. Read The Full Story

PlayStation 3D Display due Nov 13; Sony “evaluating” bigger models

Chris Davies, Oct 20th 2011 Discuss [2]

Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation 3D Display will go on sale November 13, offering 24-inches of 1080p HD 3D gaming for $499.99. Answering questions on the official PlayStation blog, Sony revealed that the display won't come with a remote control but will instead rely on the new PS3 Remote Control for armchair surfing. Meanwhile, there's confirmation that Sony is considering making larger versions in the future. Read The Full Story

LG IPS5 Series displays promise super-accurate color

Chris Davies, Sep 29th 2011 Discuss [3]

LG has launched a new range of LCD display, the IPS5 series, and as the name suggest the four-strong line-up each uses an IPS panel rather than cheaper TN. Available in 21.5- and 23-inch sizes, all supporting Full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution and 250 cd/m2 brightness, the IPS5 range is pre-calibrated by imaging experts who even include a report on the monitor's tuning in the box. Read The Full Story

Kindle Fire IPS display vs Kindle Touch E-Ink [Video]

Cory Gunther, Sep 28th 2011 Discuss [22]

While we won’t get too crazy here we do have a few photos and video comparing the display on both the Kindle Fire and the Kindle Touch 3G. With the Kindle Fire we have a 7″ IPS panel with a 1024 x 600 resolution that features great colors and exceptional viewing angles. The Kindle Touch features the popular e-ink technology we have seen before and as always it looks great for e-ink. We’ll let you decide for yourself so check out the photos and video after the break.