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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 »
History of TV
12:00PM Nick Broughall | Up until recently, LCDs just couldn’t compete with plasmas when it came to showing blacks or colours. They weren’t just bad, either: they sucked, at least in comparison to plasma. But then came LED backlighting, and things changed. More »
LED Backlighting Is LCD’s Trump Card
12:00PM Nick Broughall | Up until recently, LCDs just couldn’t compete with plasmas when it came to showing blacks or colours. They weren’t just bad, either: they sucked, at least in comparison to plasma. But then came LED backlighting, and things changed. 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 »
Gadgets
Mimic BioShock’s Body-Mod Splicing With EVE Hypodermic Needles
8:06AM Jason Chen | The world of BioShock shows what one tremendously interesting direction of hacking your body will be like. Imagine injecting yourself with flame-throwing or electric-throwing inducing stem cells and you’ll get the picture. Now you can pretend with props! More »
Gadgets
Designed By Porsche, This $US250 Torch Has A 20-Year Battery
1:36AM Danny Allen | The mPower Emergency Illuminator combines a beautiful design (courtesy of the Porsche Design Studio) with new battery technology. One tube holds two CR123 batteries, while the other stores a Lithium Reserve Battery that has a minimum shelf-life of 20 years. More »
Design
Gigantic LED Funnels Will Light Up 2010 Expo And Suck Rain
3:40AM Jesus Diaz | See that enormous blue funnel in the middle of those buildings? It’s just one of the six canopies that will light up the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. As the close-ups show, the scale of these things defies belief. More »
Screens
10:45AM Nick Broughall | These new flagship LED backlit LCDs from LG look nice. They’re borderless or some such. Full local release details including price in the press release below. More »
LG’s Borderless LED TVs Launched In AU
10:45AM Nick Broughall | These new flagship LED backlit LCDs from LG look nice. They’re borderless or some such. Full local release details including price in the press release below. More »
Gadgets
Telephone Company Ripping You Off? Get Revenge With This Lamp
11:21PM Rosa Golijan | Somehow it doesn’t seem like landline providers would be happy about people using the tiny bit of electricity coming through phone-jacks to power lamps, but this thing is so kitschy-looking that it’d be hard to resist. Plus it’s cheeeeeeap. More »
Science
2:40PM Rosa Golijan | Sometimes it’s the unseen that’s the most terrifying. In the case of RFID we think there’s plenty to dread, but never actually looked at those scary, scary waves. Thankfully someone at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design did. More »
LED Wand + RFID Waves = Beautiful
2:40PM Rosa Golijan | Sometimes it’s the unseen that’s the most terrifying. In the case of RFID we think there’s plenty to dread, but never actually looked at those scary, scary waves. Thankfully someone at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design did. More »
Gadgets
