Scrollable displays set to debut
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A mobile gadget with a scrollable display is due to go on sale in Italy in late 2007.
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Touchscreens are back in vogue with flat-panel display makers, if the prototypes on show at the FPD Expo in Yokohama this week are anything to go by.Gone are the clunky screens that relied on a touch layer added over the display, and in are models that integrate the sensor elements into the display itself. That means the displays are brighter, thinner and in many cases more responsive. It also means that some can offer a &quot;multi-touch&quot; capability similar to that of Apple Inc.&#39;s iPhone.The largest of the multi-touch screens on display was a 47-inch model from LG.Philips LCD that attracted a crowd thanks to the same novelty feature that&#39;s been amusing iPhone owners for a few months: the ability to zoom in and out of images with two fingers. In this case the display showed satellite images from Google Maps, so many show-goers used the screen to find and zoom-in on their own home, thus unwittingly letting all those around know where they live.Taiwan&#39;s AU Optronics had a pair of 4.3-inch panels on display. One used a voltage-sensing touch system and the other relied on a charge-sensing touch system. The same photo zoom technique was being demonstrated on the two screens. The former appeared much more responsive but comes with a catch: it can be operated with a fingernail but not a finger. Conversely, the charge system worked fine with a finger but didn&#39;t respond when touched with a fingernail.Japan&#39;s Sharp also attracted a crowd with a multi-touch screen that it first debuted earlier this month at the Ceatec show.&#160;The 3.5-inch screen integrates an optical scanner&#160;pixel alongside each LCD pixel, so it can not only recognize the location of multiple fingers but also be used to scan name cards and the like.Integrating image sensor pixels along side LCD pixels in screens isn&#39;t new. Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co. Ltd. unveiled such a prototype at the Electronic Display Expo in Tokyo in 2003 but not much was heard of it since.At FPD Expo, which began Wednesday, the company was demonstrating its latest prototypes and admitted that it had let rivals catch-up on its lead. The screens have failed to take off partly because panel makers don&#39;t have sophisticated enough software libraries to work with the displays.That means consumer electronics makers have to do a fair amount of software work to interface with the screens, and that&#39;s a hurdle to adoption, said Yutaka Okada, a spokesman for the company, which is a joint venture between Toshiba and Matsushita Electric Industrial&#160;(Panasonic).The latest prototypes work by sensing either light or shadow. The light-sensing model responded to a light pen and allowed users to perform such tasks as draw on a picture displayed on the screen, while the shadow sensing model could be operated with a finger. The latter has the advantage of working well in both bright and dark conditions and doesn&#39;t even require the user to physically touch the screen. Just bringing a finger within a few millimeters of the display is enough for it to respond.Despite the large number of prototypes on display, none of the companies would say when a product might be on the market.&#160;
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BenQ has unveiled the user interface for an upcoming Linux-based 'mobile Internet device.'
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Device features an OLED display, which the company says is better than an LCD.
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A Dutch company has  squeezed a display the size of two business cards into a gadget  no bigger than other mobile phones -- by making a screen that  folds up when not in use.
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Big HDTVs, next-generation DVD, and plenty of connected devices for your home take center stage as the 2005 CES prepares to open.
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Notebook PCs coming out this year will likely include more colorful screens thanks to LED (light emitting diode) backlights and Blu-ray Disc optical drives this year, an executive from Micro-Star International (MSI) says, as well as more environmentally friendly attributes.
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Heliodisplay projects a convincing mid-air display.
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New lineup of low-cost PCs includes with some multimedia capabilities.
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Large OLED screens look great, but making them is not a million laughs. Producing them in large quantities remains a work in progress, executives say.
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If you're one of those wireless users who like small handsets but detest small displays, you'll like this: a cellular device with a rollable display.
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EINDHOVEN, Netherlands  - A Dutch company has  squeezed a display the size of two business cards into a gadget  no bigger than other mobile phones -- by making a screen that  folds up when not in use.
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Wearable displays Myvu's new headset for video iPods makes you feel as if you are sitting in front of a large TV, in a darkened room, rather than staring at a tiny screen in the palm of your hand.
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TOKYO -- In the race for ever-thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all _ a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-color video.
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Flat-panel TVs look lovely on a wall Â the cords hanging from them, less so. After a few years of false starts, the industry finally seems close to tackling that problem. At least three dueling wireless technologies for high-definition TVs will be on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which starts Monday. Manufacturers promise that sets incorporating these technologies will be in stores before the next holiday season.
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In the race for ever-thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all &#151; a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-color video.
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By Jake Jones, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Feb. 3--The new LCD display from Viewsonic does wonders for cleaning up your desktop.