Sony Shows Off Paper-Thin Color Display
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Sony debuted an innovative new bendable 2.5-inch display, one that is less than 0.01 inch thick -- not much thicker than a piece of paper -- and can display full-color video.
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Sony has a 27-inch OLED TV prototype. Didn't we see this last year?
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South Korea's LG.Philips LCD will unveil a flexible, high-resolution 14.3-inch color electronic paper display at next week's CES show.
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First nveiled in 2005, cellular device developed by Polymer Vision features a 5-inch roll-out grayscale display.
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By edison d. ong. âGet blown away by 3D Java games in brilliant 65K color on the huge 1.9â TFT screen.â. &quot;Excuse me. Did you say 1.9&quot; screen?
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Sony has announced a slimmed-down PlayStation 2 in an attempt to boost sales of the console.
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For people who dislike the appearance of a blank TV screen, aesthetic ways to camouflage that huge L.C.D. or plasma panel are on the market.
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Imagine sitting down to your computer and seeing thin, plastic color displays on either side of your monitor, showing high-resolution text pages you can refer to and print from. On the wall next to you is another large display on which you can show colleagues a power point presentation, or display family photos and notes.
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(InfoWorld) - Commuters in Tokyo are getting a chance to experience some cutting-edge display technology from Thursday -- although they might have to look hard to see it. On three commuter trains some traditional paper advertisements have been replaced with color e-paper displays. The displays, while technologically advanced, proved difficult to read during a demonstration Thursday. The 13.1-inch displays are made by Hitachi Ltd. and based on Bridgestone Corp.'s "electronic liquid powder" technology. There are two such displays on each of the three trains, mounted on the carriage wall at either end of the train. Each display is connected to a smaller unit which contains companion electronics and an 8MB memory that can hold 37 advertisements. Each advertisement is shown for two minutes in a continuous cycle. Electronic paper is still in its infancy. While it has been shown in prototype form for several, the technology has only recently started making its way into commercial products. One of the highest profile uses is Sony'sÂ Sony Reader electronic book, but it uses only a monochrome display. Color e-paper development lags. The displays in the trains offer relatively low resolution, at 50 dpi (dots per inch), and can only display eight colors. There's also no backlight, so on-screen images appeared quite dark and advertisements utilizing dark colors, such as red and black, were relatively difficult to read. Reflections on the display's protective plastic cover also caused problems. The month-long tests are relatively high-profile because the trains in question run on East Japan Railway's Yamanote Line, which runs in a loop around the center of Tokyo. It's used by about 3.5 million people each weekday, making it one of the city's most important and heavily used railway lines. The trial will gauge feedback from travellers and see how the system performs in a real-world environment, said Nobuyuki Ogura, a senior manager with Hitachi's transportation information systems division in Tokyo. They follow a trial last year in which a monochrome e-paper display replaced a wall poster at Tokyo Station, he said. Hitachi will continue working on the screens and hopes to have a commercial panel ready for use by March 2008, he said. The Yamanote Line has 52 trains and on each 11-car train there are 1,414 advertisements, for a total of 73,528 on the entire line. While 96 of the advertisements on each train are LCD displays, the rest must be changed by hand. The use of more digital advertisements would mean new content could be quickly transmitted to each display panel with little fuss. The trial system that begins Thursday includes the ability to update advertisements via a 802.11b wireless LAN link to the panels. Hitachi isn't the only company working on color e-paper. Earlier this yearÂ Fujitsu showed a prototype 7.8-inch panelÂ that can display up to 4,096 colors. The display, which is the same size as a sheet of A5 paper, was built into a thin case in the form of an electronic book reader and was on show at the Ceatec exhibition in October.
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Consumers are racing to replace their aging televisions with high-definition TVs. Trouble is, many are still using devices and services that can't fill those HDTVs with enough visual information to make them look their best.
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Sony will begin mass production of full-colour organic light emitting diode (Oled) displays next year. It is considering using the technology across a range of the company&#39;s portable devices with screen sizes up to 10in (25cm).
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Paper thin CES on Video Up close with Samsung's size-zero 52in LCD TV prototype...â¦
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TOKYO - Sony Marketing (Japan) Inc said Tuesday it will begin selling a personal digital assistant Sept 25 equipped with an organic electroluminescent display, a next-generation monitor.
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Sony will come out with a new PSP in a couple of months -- one that is slimmer and lighter. Sound familiar?
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At the Consumer Electronics Show, Sony CEO Howard Stringer unveils Sony's new OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) television. Martyn Williams reports for the IDG News Service.
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Color display and photo support can't save oddly designed player.
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Prototype ups high-resolution display ante with whopping 4096-by-2160 resolution.