AUO Announces World’s First Curved Display
AU Optronics Corporation announces the world’s first glass substrate Curved Display Technology with its curved radius of 100mm. The technology will be showed at SID Display Week on May 20, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA.
The AUO Curved Display features TFT-LCD process on glass substrate. The 100 mm curved radius requires a special thinning technology. The curved backlight unit preserves curved surface uniformity in brightness and contrast. AUO’s new technology allows TFT-LCD to perform both color performance and image quality. So it is designed for future curved display, for instance watches and dashboards.
AUO is going to showcase a series of mobile device technologies with the Ultra Thin 1.9-inch TFT-LCD. The world’s thinnest TFT-LCD has a 0.63 mm of thickness and therefore breaks AUO’s own record of 0.69 mm. This TFT-LCD of 8 inches maintains special glass thinning technologies to achieve 0.63 mm ultra thickness, with the weight of 2.1 grams and the brightness of 400.
AUO will present the in-cell multi-touch technology on 4.3-inch displays. Contrasting the current touch panels, AUO will perform integrated TFT touch function capabilities with no additional glass. The superior anti-glare properties perform saturated image color and good view angles, even in direct sunlight.
The innovative Grease Free and Touch Mura Free technology shows better performance for our touch panel display market. It coats the Anti-Fouling layer to attain fingerprint free surface. To add more, you can easily wipe off grease and smudges from the display.
According to Dr. CT Liu, AUO Vice President, the display market has recently become very competitive. In addition, the 3 major trends (they are human interface, thin-and-light eco products and system integration) still dominate the market. As an industry leader, AUO will get the evident advantages of its TFT-LCD process integration aiming to produce value-added TFT-LCDs and provide customer oriented products and technologies.
Heart-Shaped Nontraditional LCD Panel By Nec
NEC LCD Technologies, together with NEC Electronics America presented the striking development that features flexible stylish thin-film transistor – TFT - liquid crystal display panels.
A heart-shaped prototype’s design was introduced, together with low-temperature poly-silicon color TFT LCD module, featuring 2 half-circular arcs and 2 straight lines. It has a 4.0 centimeters display width, 3.6 cm height and 146 pixels per inch.
The new technology will be presented at the Society for Information Display Symposium on May 23, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
NEC LCD’s new technology provides optimal gate and data lines arrangement in the pixel array and reduces the gate and data driver circuitry overlaps. NEC LCD Technologies applied its proprietary integrated TFT technology and integrated the driver circuits along the perimeter of the LCD glass, and this way simplified the interconnection scheme and contracted the area for the external circuits’ wiring and interconnections and established a bezel of 2.0 mm.
Almost all traditional display modules are rectangular, because it is the simplest efficient shape for displaying the pixel arrays. Some time earlier LCD suppliers began to introduce non-rectangular LCD shapes, such as ellipses, circles or rectangles with trimmed corners. It is a common fact more complex shape makes it difficult to accommodate the wiring patterns, and, as a result, has thicker bezels and great power consumption.
Non-rectangular shaped displays are going to replace some instrument gauges like the tachometers and speedometers in cars, as well as other applications that can have only a simple shape.
NEC’s new technology makes LCD modules more varied and flexible in design and shape, so this new technological solution can be adapted to mounted applications and nontraditional LCD devices. This development will give the ground to new unique LCD applications.
Read more about Heart-Shaped Nontraditional LCD Panel at the Nec’s official site
New JVC Camcorder Uploads Videos To YouTube Easily
The launch of a new JVC camcorder makes sharing videos via the Internet easier than ever. Now it includes one button uploading to YouTube.
The new JVC GZ-MS100 Everio S Series memory camcorder was made to simplify sharing the videos for millions of people. Unlike many other cameras for Internet users, GZ-MS100 boasts an impressive range of full-fledged digital features to give more versatility.
It looks very similar to the Everio G Series camcorders, but a bit smaller and weighs 0.60 lbs. It includes battery and records to an SD Card, compared to a built-in hard disk drive. The increasing capacity and affordable price of new SD Cards means that soon Everio S will offer more recording time at a lower cost.
Windows PC with Cyberlink installed make uploading video clips to YouTube quick and easy. The UPLOAD button works in 2 modes: the camera mode, where you press UPLOAD button and then the trigger to limit recordings to ten minutes in length for matching the YouTube file size limit, thus it prevents manual time recordings and backing to edit and shorten footage. As soon as recording is done, stick the GZ-MS100 camcorder to a PC through a USB cable and then press UPLOAD. After this, automatic launch of the supplied application will uploading video to YouTube.
The GZ-MS100 incorporates Laser Touch Operation with the touch-sensitive scroll bar and buttons for simple gliding a finger up or down the bar to alter menu items following blue light while processing. The 2.7-inch LCD screen remains untouched and won’t get dirty or covered in fingerprints. The screen has Auto Backlight Control for automatic adjusting brightness. The camcorder’s shape with a contoured grip facilitates palm-hand ease of use
The BN-VF808 rechargeable battery is supplied, featuring 2,5 hours of operation per charge. Also there are some optional capacity batteries: BN-VF815 for 4,15 hours and BN-VF823 for 6,25 hours of operation per charge.
The GZ-MS100 is shipped with a KONICA MINOLTA LENS to maintain excellent picture quality with a 35x optical zoom. JVC’s Gigabrid Engine incorporates six digital noise reduction systems and the MPEG-2 encoder for enhanced visual quality as well as Twilight, Portrait, Sports, Spotlight, Night, Snow shooting modes; Digital Image Stabilizer for smoothing camera-shake, and others.
The JVC GZ-MS100 will join the line in June for $349.99.
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Future Virtual Avatar Worlds Will Help Escape From Reality
All of us from time to time think about the future and the global problems that can cause no-good impact on our following life. Poverty, famine, pollution, overpopulation, green house effect.. there is much to be added, and soon there will be a breaking point. And what can we do with the troubles we’ve made? If we won’t do something essential to prevent today’s dangers, the future may be a very sad one.
Technology is developing and it can help fight this dangerous new environment – we still hope for the best – and soon future virtual avatar worlds will help to escape from it.
The era of global escapism is approaching and we already use computers and mobile devices to escape from cruel reality with movies, music, and other distractions.
Processing power and emerging technologies will store computing systems in wearable devices, providing growing personal media experience. And in our sad future, these devices would offer a totally new world, or even dimension - a virtual layer that would simulate a better desirable world instead of the troubling outer world. That would be the device to become a visual drug to deepen you into the imaginary world, a better place to exist.
The Digital Escape mask creates virtual avatar world and acts as a means between the user and the outer world, involving the internal human-device 
interaction. With this device smells, sounds, and even air will be imitated for producing a full sensory experience. The users would see no street violence or killings, but instead images of peace and well-being.
The Digital Escape mask would imitate your mimic and your facial expressions so that everyone could visually interact with other device users. The visual design plays with glaring and expresses coolness of the wearer with robotic appearance.
It will surely cover the truths of life, but what would become with our mind and emotions? They could be desensitized and we might completely lose a touch with reality.
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