Category: Displays
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Portable LCD Screen For The Xbox 360
By David Ponce As inelegant as the Compact TFT Monitor EX looks, it’s probably as pretty a portable Xbox 360 system is ever going to get. Developed by Hori (makers of the Onimusha sword controller and the Final Fantasy X-2 gun controller), the monitor is simply a 12.1 inch LCD monitor that straps to your…
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Sony’s 3mm Thin OLED Displays
By David Ponce We’re used to seeing OLED screens in small-ish electronics. But the technology is moving forward by leaps and bounds, and displays getting ever larger. The nice thing about OLED displays is that they don’t have to be quite as thick as their LCD or plasma counterparts. As a matter of fact, Sony’s…
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Bring The Northern Lights Home
By David Ponce The thing about Northern Lights is that they are a powerful reminder of the beauty of nature; they’re meant to be enjoyed in weather cold enough to freeze the snot on the inside of your nose. It’s a connecting-with-nature thing, or at least that’s what one of my trekking hippie friends tells…
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VisionQuest To Make A Splash In Canadian LCD Market
By David Ponce It’s no news that the LCD playing field is getting increasingly crowded. Yet, that doesn’t stop newcomers from trying to make inroads in what was a $14billion market in 2006, with varying levels of success. One company that recently caught my eye is VisionQuest. I happen to have visited a friend of…
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Temporary Printing Machine
By Evan Ackerman Observed today in the Kinetica Museum at the Old Spitalfields Market in London is this temporary printing machine, which uses an array of ultraviolet LEDs moving over a light sensitive surface to create monochrome images. The printed effect lasts between 30 seconds and a minute, so the image slowly fades, creating a…
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Underbed Lift Will Hide Your Plasma Under Your Bed
By David Ponce The Underbed Lift, from MK1 Studios has been around for a few years. But in light of recent plasma screen hiding systems, we figured we’d bring you info about yet another alternative. Now, we’re not sure why you’d want to be stashing your brand new 50 inch plasma anywhere, but if, say,…
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Gemotion Is A Soft, Bulging 3D Display
By David Ponce At the moment, this technology is being displayed as art, rather than some R & D project, yet we see some promise for consumer applications here. Gemotion is simply a projector screen. But behind the screen, Yoichiro Kawaguchi (well-known computer graphics artist and University of Tokyo professor) installed 72 air cylinders, which…
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Micro Display Designer Glasses
By David Edney We’ve all seen the goggles that can project a 50 inch screen in front of your eyes, but no one would be caught dead wearing them. To get more in style with the times, Lumus-Optical has come out with a prototype pair of glasses that have twin micro displays attached to them.…
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Neon Legos: Retro in the Metro
By David Edney Well, these aren’t Legos by any stretch of the word, but the principle is the same and represent a leap in sign-making innovation that should have been made eons ago. International Robotics has created individual letters, numbers, punctuation, and symbols that connect together just like Legos. They all are encased in fire…
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iCushion LED Pillow
by David Edney The holidays are just around the corner and since there aren’t enough “i” products going around I thought you would like this one. The iCushion takes 4 AAA batteries and puts on a show!! You just turn on the music and the graphic equalizer (that’s right a real graphic equalizer) on the…