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 [...]
June 8th, 2008
See: Spy shots, NDAs, Review Samples
Given the excitement about the iPhone 2, the suppositions that carriers are getting huge shipments, and idea that hundreds of media are currently running around with the IP2 as we speak, surreptitiously shooting pictures of our underwear with the phone’s 12-megapixel X-Ray camera, I thought I’d take a moment to [...]
June 4th, 2008
Japan’s second biggest mobile phone carrier KDDI au yesterday followed DoCoMo and Softbank with their presentation of 12 new cell phones to be released this summer. The first models will be sold at the end of June.
Here is the complete line-up:
W62H from Hitachi
(equipped with a 2.8 inch OLED display featuring 480×240 resolution)
May 20th, 2008
Today’s Top Posts:
Netflix Player by Roku review
Netflix Player by Roku screenshot walk-through
OMG! KIDS GET 3G IPHONE! OMG!
MTMini: Even cheaper multi-touch
Bluetooth cassette adapter!
The real story behind AT&Ts “iPhone Insurance”
Rejoice! Rolly now available at U.S. Sony stores
Wireless RC car with wireless camera is wirelessly creepy
Sony achieves a (small) step forward in the development of large-size OLED TVs [...]
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 16th, 2008
OLED screens are nice but small. Perfect for a notebook but impractical for, say, a television. This prototype of a laptop by Samsung has a keyboard that’s made me agitated just by looking at it, but features a 12.1-inch 1280×768 active matrix OLED screen, which I bet is gorgeous. Now we just need the [...]
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 [...]
April 21st, 2008
Being green and working in the tech world often times don’t mix. The manufacturers of everything that gets me giddy takes a huge dump on Mother Earth in the process and that stinks. Green Peace keeps tabs on companies and lets us know who piddles in the pool and who takes a hungover-all night bender-Hot [...]
January 9th, 2008
Well, LG undouched itself, we interviewed iRobot’s Colin Angle, and we took tasteful pictures of the ladies of CES. We’re tired, hung over, and we had a great meet-up with a few cool guys (Say “Hi!” to the inmates for us, Paul!) at the Monte Carlo. We’re happy.
Sony’s medium-sized OLED TV is gorgeous
Hands on with [...]
