Sharp has unveiled a stunning 26-foot-tall Christmas tree made of 43 Aquos LCD televisions, which sizes ranging from 19 to 52 inches. The gigantic TV tree is located in New York's Grand Central Station, where people can not only admire its coordinated decoration animations, created by Japanese video artist Tsuyoshi Takashiro, but also register to win one of the Aquos panels in the tree. If you are a New Yorker and need another reason to go to Grand Central, Sharp will also donate one dollar per registered person to a program that trains people in environmental jobs. [PopSci]

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Apple has patented a new display technology that will allow their iPhones to have always-on displays with almost no battery cost whatsoever. This doesn't mean the whole display would be lit at all times. In reality, only part of it would be activated using a secondary backlight system located under the main one. According to Apple, the objective is to give feedback to the user at all times, even when the main display is turned off:

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A Gizmodo reader saw the Mimo 7-inch USB rotatable displays and he thought they were so cool that he is importing 500 units to sell them in the US. I'm not surprised, because they are extremely nice and useful indeed: You only have to connect them to a USB port and they work as satellite 800 x 480 screens for anything you want to put in them, from small apps like instant messaging to widgets like Photoshop tools.

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Looks like the informed speculation was correct: Apple says that the LED 24-inch Cinema Display will ship within a week to ten days. Is it worth $US899? That's a personal life decision son. [Apple via Electronista]

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Apple announced its new superfancy in-ear headphones over two months ago, and its similarly superschmancy LED-backlit 24-inch Cinema Display about a month ago. Neither have shipped! But it looks like they might, finally. MacRumors says Apple has end-of-life'd the old 23-inch Cinema Display and in-ear headphones, meaning the new hotness should be sliding in to take their place soon—a month late in the headphones' case, but who's counting? (Okay, we are). [MacRumors]

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After being ridiculed for its stability problems and publicly scorned for the Blue Screen of Death by everyone, including--Mrs. Potato head--PC must be really happy today. Specially since this giant iPhone display stuck with a Mac OS X kernel panic was running in a AT&T shop, which abandoned their Windows-based iPhone promo screens for these models running Mac OS X. Or trying to. [MacSoda]

Way back in June Optoma promised to release its picoprojector this year, and now there's news that indeed it will. Still reportedly the world's smallest and lightest, it'll go on sale December 1st in Japan at the Apple store, of all places. In case you've forgotten the DLP device is just 1.7 x 5 x 10.4 cm and can produce an image up to 60-inches at a modest 480 x 320 resolution and 1000:1 contrast for 2 hours from its battery. Its expected price in Japan is around $US500, though there's no news yet on when it'll be coming to these shores or what it'll cost. [AVWatch]

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Sometimes you have to respect a company if only because they're doing something different. Now iZ3D has teamed with computer painters Smooth Creations to release 22-inch widescreen monitors that offer some 3D LCD "business" in the front and a little 2D hot rod paint job "party" in the back.

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This may not be as small as yesterday's picoprojector, but Toshiba's TLP-X200U projector is still portable, and touted as being the world's first with talking guidance. Apparently it's designed to make the thing easier to use, and it also talks you through maintenance procedures, with the aim of making it all work better for you, and thus saving you money in the long run. Elsewise it's got 3LCD tech, 1024 x 768-pixels resolution, 3000 ANSI lumen brightness and a 600:1 contrast ratio, and it's wired and wireless LAN capable. It may indeed be "slim, light and compact" and have that voice function, but for an MSRP of $US1,740 I'd expect it to have an LCARS touchpanel and Majel Barrett's dulcet digital tones. [I4U]

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Even though the latest MacBook uses the same size display as the last-gen MacBook Air, the displays are not quite the same. The Air, being a more premium product, uses a display that's more similar to the MacBook Pro than the MacBook. You'll remember in our review that despite being both made out of glass and visually very similar, the MacBook's 13-inch screen was of a "lower" quality than the 15-inch MacBook Pro screen. You can see that blacks are much blacker and the colour representation is much better on the Air.

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