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Skiff Reader: the largest and thinnest eBook

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:10:36 +0000

Skiff Reader is optimized for magazines and newspapers and has a ecrande 11.5 inches (about 30 cm) with a resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels, touch. But thickness? About 0.6 cm.

Skiff Reader is flexible, glossy, durable and the screen is made of thin steel foil instead of glass or plastic. To create this type of screen, stiff collaborated with LG Display. The device can be connected to the future of digital storage Skiff Wi-Fi and 3G network and can display a wide range of magazines, newspapers, books, blogs.

The product will be presented this week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2010, but details of availability and pricing will be announced later.

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CES preview: USB 3.0 video streaming chip from DisplayLink

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:43:18 +0000

mall wonder why USB 2.0 technology doesn’t score as a proper video carrier. Attempts to push 3D video game graphics or a movie in HD result in glitches from low frame rates (60fps and 27fps respectively). DisplayLink, USB 2.0 video streaming pioneer, has sold a million of their specialized chips last year. But you have probably guessed already that the latest USB 3.0 standard brings a lot of potential into the concept. So did they, and with ten times more the bandwidth DisplayLink puts a lot of effort in designing a new USB 3.0 compatible chip. They will show it as soon as CES 2010 starts.

DisplayLink officials say that 4.8Gbps are more than enough to transmit any sort of video to display of any size and resolution. While this is apparent, the peculiar thing is that they are into a bit of a split with what the first video carrying chip was designed for. That was designed to replace VGA and DVI ports with a standard USB hub. This is what USB itself is for – combining all the different types of ports at the back of your computer into one easy to use, small and fast port. The next USB chip that is coming is planed primarily for notebooks. Latest AMD and Intel powered machines are fully capable of providing adequate gaming experience as well as decoding H.264 so constant need to plug and unplug a display at work, home, elsewhere is more likely to happen rather than with a desktop.
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The thinnest LCD in the world: an LG 2.6 mm

admin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:23:24 +0000

We are moving patter to CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in 2010, which means that we will see many competitors in the race for “the slimmest” LCD TV in the world. Meanwhile, it seems that LG’s engineers are hard, announcing a new product, with a thickness of only 2.6 mm. LCD TV’s has a diagonal of 106 inches, weighs less than 4 kilograms, has a full HD resolution (1920 x 1080 pixels) and refresh rate of 120Hz.

Other specifications have not yet, but certainly we will learn more about Motorola Extreme Slim LCD TV over two weeks or so, you will begin electronics fair. CES 2010 will run from 7-10 January 2010 in Las Vegas.

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