OLED screens brighten Sony handhelds
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Sony may be puling its Clie handhelds out of the US and Europe, but that doesn&#39;t mean the company has lost all faith in the handheld market.
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Company is working on flexible display technologies.
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Investor's Business Daily - Philips Electronics  , Samsung and Sony   are among the big companies at this week's Consumer Electronics Show showing off products like HDTVs and mobile phones that emphasize style and elegance as differentiators.
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New display technologies are emerging for laptops and other mobile devices that are thinner, lighter and use less energy than LCDs.
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ATLANTA - There&#39;s a lot to like about flat-panel screens. They are lighter than the conventional cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitors, take up less desk space, look more attractive and tend to draw about half the power needed to run boxy monitors.
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Cameras may not cope with steamy environments, apparently Kindly refrain from snapping steamy, passionate piccies of your partner with certain older Sony Cyber-shot digital cameras, the consumer electronics giant has asked buyers this week. It turns out the cameras' LCDs may run into trouble in warm, humid environments.â¦
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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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The devices, which will be available soon, will offer better picture quality than earlier models.
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Yesterday we talked about how Toshiba and Canon have formed a joint venture to develop SED display technology. Now comes news that Sony is ready to start volume production of OLED displays.
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As predicted by Blake's 7... Some UK-based portable media player owners will next month be able to watch videos without the need to squint at a small screen, if PDT's Eye-Theatre video spectacles ship as planned. The 'video glasses' mount a pair of tiny LCDs in front of your eyes and incorporate stereo earphones into the ear-rests.â¦
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Sony's new direction tells us plenty about the future of television screens.
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New standard is designed to expand the range of colors on LCD and rear-projection screens, improving the viewing experience.
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Big OLED screen, 802.11b, slick design, long-running battery...
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Sony has officially launched its portable Reader device, which offers a high-resolution electronic paper display for reading eBooks and other documents. It's designed to give a printed look that's easy on the eyes. The company has also opened an eBook store.
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Thinner flat-panel displays were abuzz at this year's CES trade show, with OLED TVs shown that were less than an inch thick.
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Sony has a 27-inch OLED TV prototype. Didn't we see this last year?
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Company claims its new laptops feature the world's brightest screens.