displays
Screens
Video: Sony’s Massive 280-inch (711cm) 3D LED Display
11:34PM Danny Allen | Similar to Mitsubishi’s 155-inch OLED screen, Sony’s huge display is made of individual panels (70 smaller LED screens in this case) and is designed for outdoor marketing. You know, because we all carry around polarised glasses, right? More »
Design
Beautiful Dress Made Out Of 24,000 LEDs
4:20PM Rosa Golijan | 24,000 full-colour, super-thin LEDs, 4000 Swarovski crystals and enough iPod batteries to keep everything glowing for about an hour. This picture doesn’t do the Galaxy Dress justice, but the video comes close. More »
History of TV
12:00PM Nick Broughall | If you owned a TV with a screen bigger than 40 inches before the year 2000, chances are it was a rear projection model. And chances are it took up most of your loungeroom. More »
When Rear Projection Made It BIG
12:00PM Nick Broughall | If you owned a TV with a screen bigger than 40 inches before the year 2000, chances are it was a rear projection model. And chances are it took up most of your loungeroom. More »
Gadgets
Gadget Singularity: Let’s Ditch Our Buttons And Screens Forever
10:00AM Brian Lam | The past decade’s march towards better gadgets shows a trend line pointing towards ultra-powerful gadgets with UIs so seamless, they make Macs look like punchcard computers. But if you think about it, we — not hardware — are the limitation. More »
Screens
Digital Tattoo Interface Turns Your Skin Into A Display
1:40PM Rosa Golijan | There are implants which are purely aesthetic, and then there’s the Digital Tattoo Interface concept. It’s a blood-powered electronic interface which is embedded under skin to mimic a tattoo, display videos, or act as a phone or computer. More »
Hardware
VESA Officially Adopts Apple’s Mini DisplayPort
6:38AM Jesus Diaz | It was bound to happen: Apple’s Mini DisplayPort is now officially part of the Video Electronics Standards Association’s DisplayPort 1.1a standard. [VESA]
Screens
20 iPods Cluster Into One, Big, Interactive Display
12:53AM Mark Wilson | The neatest thing about this demo isn’t that 20 iPod touches have combined to make a giant touch display; the neatest thing is that the technology can scale. More »
Screens
Microsoft Research Demos Touchless, Transparent Glass Display
11:51PM Rosa Golijan | Microsoft’s research division is doing tours across university campuses and rather than turning them into snoozefests they’re showing off an incredibly prototype. It’s a clear glass display which accepts input through voice control, touchless gestures, pen and eye-tracking. More »
Computers
Dual Screen Netbook Concept Actually Looks Practical
12:20AM Danny Allen | I was pretty skeptical about Kohjinsha’s dual 10.1-incher when I first wrote about it, but it actually looks quite practical in this video. The second display simply slides out behind the first, like on GScreen’s Spacebook and Lenovo’s W700. More »
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