Tag archive: LED

According to a report in the Daily Yomiuri Online, Sony is halting development of organic electroluminescence display panels for consumers. While Sony will continue selling OLED panels to corporate clients, the television manufacturer will only create LED and LCD panels for the mass market. Sony first rolled out a model of an OLED for the consumer market in 2007, but the expensive price tag of the Sony Drive XEL-1 OLED TV was difficult to… Read More

David Forbes, an electrical engineer from Tucson, Arizona, has found a way to mix fashion with one of America's favorite pastimes. The engineer has created a vest packed with LEDs that turns him into a walking TV. Forbes' TV vest began as a coat in 2009, which he populated with some surplus LED displays. He says the 50 pound all-red screen was “the world worst television.” Later he upgraded to a lighter version using an old overcoat… Read More

Recounted in full detail at the Bygone Bureau blog, Eric Smith found himself devastated after his long-time girlfriend confessed to cheating and broke up with him. At the time, Smith was prepared to propose to his now ex-girlfriend and had even obtained her perfect image of an engagement ring. Specific to her description of the perfect ring, the diamond was shaded canary yellow and set on a white gold band. After the breakup, the engagement… Read More

Hacker Gagandeep Singh has developed a do-it-yourself project for designing a grid of LED lights on the rear window of a vehicle without obstructing the view from the rear-view mirror. Singh is interested in providing feedback to drivers that don't pay attention to the rules of the road. Using his Volkswagon Polo as the guinea pig for the project, Singh created plans for a 40 x 16 LED matrix display with LED lights that allowed two… Read More

Fall is what we like to call “TV watching season.” As the gloomy weather swoops in and forces us indoors, the major networks also start airing new episodes of your primetime series favorites, football gets back in full swing, and the summer blockbusters begin arriving on DVD and Blu-ray disc. All good reasons to plop down on the TV, but it doesn’t have to be an old one. Fall also happens to be a great time to buy a brand spanking new,… Read More

BMW has announced that it is actively testing laser headlights to replace the LED bulbs that it currently uses. The German luxury car manufacturer says that lasers are, obviously, the “next logical step” in the evolution of headlights, and reportedly have the capability to shine up to 1,000 times brighter than LEDs. According to the press release, BMW believes laser technology could usher in “entirely new light functions for… Read More

If you have been shopping for a 3D TV and an Android tablet this is the weekend for you to finally pull the trigger. Samsung and Best Buy are teaming up to give away a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with the purchase of certain 3D TV. The deal is only for two different TVs, one a 46” LED, and another is for a mystery 55” TV with 3D starter kit. The cheapest package will cost you $1499.99. Unfortunately Best Buy does not tell us which two models of TVs… Read More

Designed to blend into the background of any iMac desktop setup, Iomega's new Mac Companion Hard Drive sits unassumingly at the base of the iMac. A brushed silver exterior circles the drive and matches the shading on the iMac stand. The drive comes with either 2TB or 3TB storage depending on the model.  The 3.5-inch hard drive runs at 7,200 RPM and comes with one FireWire 800, one conversion FireWire 400-800 as well as one USB 2.0 cable… Read More

The Cinema Display is back, with a new name. Today, Apple has announced an external display for its line of MacBook laptops. Called the Thunderbolt Display, the new dock/external monitor can connect up to newer MacBooks via Intel's high speed Thunderbolt port, which can achieve speeds of 10Gbps, giving users a lot more space to play around on–27 inches of LED screen space, to be exact. The display has a 16:9 aspect ratio and, though… Read More

German industrial giant Siemens has filed suit against both South Korea's LG and Samsung in Germany and the United States, alleging the companies are infringing on Siemens LED patents in both back-lit flat-panel LCD displays and in LED lighting. Similar suits are expected to be filed in China and Japan this week. LED lighting applications are particularly in-demand, with the technology being applied to everything from conventional and… Read More

So we've seen motion capture, which detects 3D movement, and we've seen 3D imaging, but scientists at the University of the West of England (yes, that's its name) have cooked up a way to take three-dimensional moving images of the face in high resolutions. Technology like this could greatly improve security at places like airports, reports NewScientist. Here's how it works: a camera captures a bunch of high resolution 2D… Read More

Sharp is looking to get a jump on the second-half-of-the-year market for televisions by announcing its new Aquos LED televisions, a new series of LCD HDTVs that take Sharp's existing Aquos LCD technology and pair it with energy-saving full-array LED backlighting for improved image quality and utility-friendly performance. And the Aquos LED series also introduce Aquos Net, a new service that enables owners to tap into Web-based… Read More

You've heard about LCDs. You've heard about plasmas. Maybe even you even understand all the pros and cons between them. But what are all these “LED televisions” we keep hearing about? It's a question we hear a lot from budding home theater shoppers. Blame the acronyms. While yesterday's consumers had to make a simple choice between CRT and rear-projection television sets, today's consumers are… Read More

It’s a battle that will rage until at least 2010: Samsung and Sony have made a big splash at this year’s CES with new LED displays that could spell the eventual doom of plasma, DLP, and LCD technology. At the Samsung booth, the big story is a new series called LUXIA, a .65-inch thin display that uses LED (light emitting diodes). The larger displays have a 240Hz refresh rate, which is a critical spec. Watching a movie and still… Read More