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SED clears to go, it is too late?

By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Dec 3rd 2008 2 Comments

There were a time OLED vs SED was a hot topic among the display fanatics; but both got held up, OLED is proved too costly for manufacturing while SED got buried in legal proceedings ages ago. The latter is finally cleared from courtroom drama thanks to the opposition, Applied Nanotech, giving up its claims in patent dispute. So there you have it, Canon in the clear to move forward with SED; but it’s too late? Can they turn the technology into a lower cost production display against OLED or better yet, overtake LCD as the market leader?

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Fujitsu put IPx7 Waterproof high end cell phone to test

By Daniel Lim on Friday, Nov 21st 2008 1 Comment

Forget the cheesy weather proof feature or having a pelican case for your cell phone. The Futjisu F-01A goes beyond Slashproof, offers feature-rich handset with IPx5 and IPx7 waterproof protection. The F-01A is no ordinary cell phone with few O-rings; it’s a fully loaded “docomo PRIME series” mobile phones with GSM, GPS, Bluetooth, fingerprint sensor, and has a 5.2MP CMOS sensor for still image capture which also sports a 3.5-inch TFT LCD with ultra wide 854×480 resolution screen.

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No more Photoshop, FotoNation FaceEnchance mimicking soft filter at hardware level

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Nov 20th 2008 No Comments

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If you owned a digital camera- Digital SLR, P&S or cell phone with camera function, you probably have heard of or seen the feature SmileCheck, Face Detection, Blink Detection or the likes that suppose to assist you in getting a perfectly in focused and sharp images for every Kodak moment at hardware layer. But if you’ve done portrait of any girls, a tack sharp image may not always ends up they would have wanted. Too revealing of their facial imperfection, they would said. Well, solving these problems in post processing are in the past, Fotonation has came out with a hardware level FaceEnhance gimmick for the beauty queens.

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Sanyo develops Industrial’s Highest output 600W IC Amp

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Nov 20th 2008 No Comments

The thrust for higher power and better sound quality in small digital packages, especially on flat panel displays, has pushed engineers in developing Class D amplifier technology onto a small chip-sized IC. Folks at Sanyo has announced the development of a high performance and efficiency hybrid IC promises to deliver 600 watts of low distortion’s Class D digital amplifying.

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Mojo Mobility develops Near Field Power charger prototype

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Nov 13th 2008 No Comments

As more and more people have multiple mobile devices, it becomes more of an issue of how you’ll keep your gadgets charged while on the go. But Mojo Mobility may have just come up with something that will put an end to your charging troubles that utilizes Near Field Power to charge up your devices.

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COM-BAT makes for a robotic surveillance wonder

By Brenda Stokes on Friday, Nov 7th 2008 No Comments

Now this is interesting. In order to improve surveillance options, new platforms are being researched, especially those that mimic things from nature. Take for instance this robotic spy plane. It’s only six-inches long, but it can use just about everything as a power source and could be used for monitoring all sensory perceptions in a combat zone.

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Fungus could make for new diesel fuel

By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, Nov 5th 2008 No Comments

Emerging green technologies are always something to get excited about. After all, it will be these technologies that ween our dependence off of fossil fuels. And even though hearing the term “fungus fuel” might sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, it’s a real thing that has real potential.

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Sony’s Blu-Spec CD is no Blu-Ray

By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Nov 5th 2008 2 Comments

blu spec cd You heard of SHM-CD, HQCD, XRCD and here’s another similar technology with new process and material redbook CD on its way. Sony Music Entertainment Inc. has developed a high quality CD format features enhanced audio quality based on its Blu-ray Disc technology. No, it has nothing to do with the Blu-Ray Profile 3.0 (BD-audio), or Blu-ray optical media. But the new Blu-Spec CD utilizes the same high-molecular polycarbonate material and ultra precision Blue Laser Diode cutting process used to manufacture Blu-ray disc; hence the name Blu-Spec.

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Prototype Edge Type LED backlight can reduce LCD size and thickness

By Daniel Lim on Tuesday, Nov 4th 2008 No Comments

Most of the leading edge display technologies are pretty much synonymous with the Korean or Japanese electronics manufacturers. Not this time. Global Lighting Technologies, a Taiwanese company has came out with an edge type LED backlight unit with light sources located on the sides, which can help reduce the thickness of LCD panel significantly.

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Recon Scout Robot can be thrown

By Brenda Stokes on Friday, Oct 31st 2008 No Comments

This is one piece of robotic technology I wouldn’t want to mess around with. And though it might not look very intimidating, this Recon Scout robot is definitely prepared to do some stealthy surveillance.

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