Tag archive: widescreen

It's a lot easier to design a crazy cool phone than actually make a working prototype, but where would we be without dreamers. Called the “Line Phone,” this concept was created in China and won the gold award at the 2010 Furong Cup “Digital Product and Service Design Competition” in the country. The first thing you'll notice is that it has no obvious buttons of any kind and the touchscreen extends all the way… Read More

This week I’m at IFA, which is the European equivalent of CES. It is just getting off the ground as I’m writing this, and we’ve already had the first set of product announcements. Sony is making a rather large and impressive statement at this show, and it intends to lead again in TVs, eBooks, and even has a potential Macbook Air product coming. But I saw a number of other cool things at the Showstoppers event the… Read More

It's undoubtedly a great thing to carry around a portion of your video library on an iPod or a similar device…but if there's one thing the whole “portable digital video” thing is lacking it's the widescreen experience. For folks who can't bear to be anything but totally immersed—and really don't care what they might look like while immersed—Vuzix has announces a new entry in its… Read More

Computer maker Lenovo today announced an update to its popular T60 line of business notebook computers, adding new 15.4-inch screen sizes at WXGA resolution (1,366 by 768 pixels) or an eyeball-popping WSXGA+ resolution of 1,680 by 1,050 pixels. “As the widescreen PC's popularity spills over from the consumer market to business customers, the new ThinkPad T60 widescreen is giving users more choices,” said Sam Dusi,… Read More

Although was announced for Asian and European markets in mid-2006, electronics maker BenQ is bringing its 24-inch FP241W widescreen LCD monitor to North American consumers through Ingram Micro this month—and high-resolution widescreen display offers features, specs, and a price tag that should attract some interest. The FP241W offers a 24-inch WUXGA (1,920 by 1,200 pixel) resolution, meaning it's ready to support… Read More

At CES 2006 Canon introduced four new camcorders which sport features like widescreen, high resolution recording and widescreen display panels. These new models fall into the ZR and Elura families. In the ZR line up, Canon was showcasing the ZR500 ($299), ZR600 ($349) and ZR700 ($399). All of these will be available at the end of this month. Features across this series include a 2.7

IDC has releasd a new technology forecast, Worldwide Portables by Screen Size 2004-2009 Forecast and Analysis: The Future is Bright and Wide, in which it notes the popularity of widescreen LCD displays in portable computers and devices has skyrocketed, so much so that it anticipates widescreen displays will be present in the majority of notebook computers shipped in 2006, outstripping screens with (formerly?) standard aspect ratios.… Read More