October 2nd, 2008
It’s the third of five days at CEATEC 2008, Asia’s biggest exhibition for consumer electronics (think Asia’s CES), and I must say it’s better than last year.
Here are my impressions of the exhibition:
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The level of internationalization at CEATEC stands at an estimated 5%. I am seriously wondering how foreign journalists are able to understand what [...]
September 30th, 2008
Sony caused a worlwide sensation at last year’s CEATEC by introducing the XEL-1 during the event, its mini OLED TV, which boasts a thickness of just 3 mm (1.4 mm at its thinnest part).
This year, the general public gets to see a OLED display that is just 0.3 mm at its thinnest part (otherwise, the [...]
August 28th, 2008
Sony wants to be the number one TV company by the year 2010. To that end, they’ve announced three sexy new products today at IFA.
The Bravia EX-1 PictureFrame television is a wall-mountable LCD television that utilizes wireless HDMI to reduce cables going to your set. It’s designed to look good on your wall, as though [...]
August 13th, 2008
Today’s Top Posts:
10 Days of CrunchGear: The Man in the Mirror
Polaroid wants your advice on remaking the Polaroid
Robopong lets you play friendless table tennis
Bill Gates on future: The Internet! Robots! Touch!
Kingston adds 32GB SDHC to Elite Pro line
Europe finally gets Sony’s mini OLED-TV XEL-1
Left 4 Dead to debut at PAX for Xbox 360
Weight-sensitive floor lights [...]
August 13th, 2008
According to information the Nikkei, Japan’s largest business daily, spread today, Sony will finally start selling its XEL-1 mini OLED TV in Europe “sometime next year”. The device made its debut in the US in January, while it hit Japanese stores December 2007.
Sony will become the first company offering OLED TVs in Europe. The price [...]
July 25th, 2008
How often do you use your phone’s built-in camera? More often than not, the cameras are so terrible it’s not even worth the time it takes to remove it from your pocket. Samsung aims to change that mentality with its i8510 INOV8. The phone, which is Europe-only, runs on the latest version of Symbian, and [...]
July 10th, 2008
Today Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization announced it wants to accelerate the commercialization of large-screen OLED-TVs with a $350 million investment to be spent over 5 years.
The public organization plans to cooperate with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and a total of 10 Japanese technology companies. These are:
- [...]
July 2nd, 2008
Field Emission Technologies, a Sony affiliate, is preparing to mass-produce a new kind of flat panel starting 2009. Sony owns 37.8 percent of the company.
The so-called FEDs (field emission displays) offer higher picture quality than LCDs. Backlighting FEDs is not necessary so that they are said to be twice as energy-efficient as LCDs. While Sony’s [...]
May 20th, 2008
No one can deny OLED displays are superior in quality to LCD or Plasma screens. One problem which has been constraining the commercialization of large-size OLED TVs, however, is the high level of power consumption.
On Monday however, Sony and Japanese chemical company Idemitsu announced they succeeded in increasing the internal quantum efficiency (IQE) in [...]
May 7th, 2008
Sony’s extremely expensive 11-inch OLED TV that landed stateside earlier this year claims a lifespan of 30,000 hours or 10 years, but DisplaySearch says otherwise. The research firm tested two XEL-1 TVs for 1,000 hours and estimates that the organic light-emitting diode set would fizzle out after 17,000 hours.
“The results demonstrate that the [...]
