“Electronic Skin” Color Changing Sur...
By Evan Ackerman Cell phones are arguably separated into three categories: iPhone / Palm Pre / BlackBerry, phones that suck are functional for people who don’t care, and everything else. In the everything else category, what distinguishes one phone from another is often (for better or worse) looks,...
Sharp Develops A Five-Primary-Color Disp...
By Andrew Liszewski Sharp has announced that they’ve developed a five-primary-color display that is capable of reproducing more than 99% of real surface colors that the human eye can discern. The new display features something the company calls “Multi-Primary-Color Technology” which...
Holy Safety Innovation Batman! It’s Th...
By Andrew Liszewski Created by Kevin Stone, an orthopedic surgeon and inventor, the Rescue Reel provides a better way for upper-floor residents or workers to escape a high-rise building in an emergency. The device is based on a fishing reel of all things, though the Rescue Reel improves on that design...
Researchers Develop Rubber-Like OLED Dis...
By Andrew Liszewski A group of researchers at the University of Tokyo, led by professor Takao Someya, have developed an organic electroluminescent display that can be stretched and folded like rubber. The new ‘displays’ were created by spraying a layer of carbon nanotubes with a fluoro-rubber...
Samsung’s new SyncMaster 70 displa...
Taking global climate change as seriously as anyone is these days, Samsung has trotted out a pair of new SyncMaster 70 series monitors, on the green tip. Coming in at your choice of either 20- or 23-inches, the displays sport a 50000:1 contrast ration, 2ms response time, and consume thirty-three percent...
Motorola showcases USB-powered Media Mov...
We didn’t think much of Motorola’s MCU3E (MCUBE) wireless transcoder when it was launched as a prototype late last year, but obviously Moto’s got dreams of seeing this in homes around the world. Showcased at this year’s Cable Show, the rechristened Media Mover is a USB-powered...
Futaba thinks Field Emission Displays ar...
Sony may have given up hope on the future of Field Emission Displays ( FEDs ) — CRTs that rely on flat electron emitters, ditching the cumbersome tube and the bulk that goes along with it — but Futaba is still moving forward, demoing a series of displays for Engineering TV in a video embedded...
Sony’s Field Emission Technologies...
FED ’s dead, baby — at least for Sony. The company’s spin-off Field Emission Technologies, whose sole purpose was to develop the displays, is now closing its doors. Blame goes to difficulty in raising funds for manufacturing. After years of teasing and an actual demo unit just a few...
Acer F1 coming in September, powered by ...
Is one of Acer’s mysterious smartphones packing a Qualcomm Snapdragon ? According to the folks at All About Phones who reportedly attended an Acer event recently, the F1 will be running the 800MHz ARM chip, which is a tad slower than the 1000MHz equivalent in the TG01 . The device will be Windows...