South Korea’s LG Electronics has announced a new line of “Smart” W53 widescreen LCD monitors that look to make the everyday computer display a little easier to use—and friendlier on the eyes. The new monitors feature a notebook-like auto brightness feature that enables them to automatically adjust their brightness based on ambient light around them; other features include cinema mode that blanks out everything except on-screen video, and a proximity sensor that illuminates controls only when a user’s hand gets near them.
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Fossil Introduces New Wrist Net Smart Watch
The new Wrist Net Smart Watches are available in two different brands and three styles and feature thinner designs and butterfly clasps for a more comfortable fit. Using the MSN® Direct wireless service developed by Microsoft Corporation, the impressive FOSSIL Wrist Net Smart Watches enable people to stay connected to the information that matters most by delivering personalized news, weather updates, sports scores, stock quotes, horoscopes, lottery results, personal messages and entertainment news.
HItachi, Pharos To Work Together On GPS/LBS
From the press release:
Pharos Science & Applications Inc., a leading provider of portable GPS navigation and location-based services, has announced a partnership with Hitachi, Ltd. to enable Hitachi’s new G1000TM Multimedia Communicator with Windows Mobile software for Pocket PCs with Pharos’ award-winning Ostia Smart NavigatorTM, the first Web-based service to combine GPS navigation, real-time traffic and dynamic points-of-interest lookup.
Microsoft Stops Smart Display Development
“After evaluating current market trends … Microsoft is not at this time working on the next version of Smart Display technology,” said Megan Kidd, a Microsoft product manager, in an e-mail response to questions. Microsoft and its hardware partners came to the decision to stop work on the Smart Display product in early December, she said.
The first Smart Displays started shipping in January last year after a short delay. The devices allow users to access their PC through a touch-screen display that can be carried about the home and that communicates with the PC using the 802.11b wireless networking standard, also known by the Wi-Fi marketing name.
Microsoft Drops Smart Display
The Smart Display, a year old, will not make it to 2.0 – Microsoft has told the unfortunate manufacturers who partnered with it in the doomed venture.
The idea of a flat panel display which you could pick up and carry around the house sounded like a brilliant idea when it was first mooted, since all it needed was a (presumably, cheap) Windows CE processor and a wireless link. At the time it was not quite as obvious as it is now that it was a dead duck.

