I don’t know about you but I wouldn’t wear such a working Apple iPhone costume. Not only is it way too big to carry around the party but you might also break it. Not to mention that it shows everything your iPhone does. And what happens if someone decides to steal the extra large iPhones?

The Halloween costumes feature each a car battery, a 42-inch LCD TV and a little iPhone OS tweaking needed to connect the iPhone to the LCD. Each costume weighs 85 pounds and costs around $1,000 to make, so while creators Reko and Bobby will definitely wear them we will gladly look for other costume ideas. What are you going to wear?

via TUAW

Tags: Apple, Apple, Costume, Halloween, iPhone, lcd, Mobile News

AT&T is a serious company and it will not stand being made fun of. Sure in this case being made fun of means actually losing a few million dollars. AT&T has filed a suit in San Francisco against LG, Samsung, Chunghua, AU Optronics and others claiming that they all conspired in order to raise cell phone LCD prices exactly when the carrier purchased 300 million handsets. That’s surely not nice and if AT&T were to win, we can expect the defendants to pay a lot of cash to the carrier. After all, it’s not the first time LCD price-fixers would pay for their wrong doings!

via Phone Scoop

Tags: At&T, lcd, LG, LG, Mobile News, Price-Fixing, Samsung, Samsung, trial

It seems that Kopin Corporation have managed to create what they are calling the world’s smallest VGA LCD display. At just 0.27-inches, I’m not arguing, but the fact that this little guy has a resolution of 600×480 makes this a true breakthrough.

But why? Well, prior to this manufacturers haven’t been able to cram that many pixels into such a small display. In fact, the pixels used are about the size of a human’s red blood cell, now that’s small! Kopin also noted that they are working towards creating a 2048×2048 display no larger than a postage stamp.

Why you would ever need such a small display to display such a high definition picture, I don’t know, but it sure is cool.

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Tags: 600x480, Cell Phones, display, kopin corporation, lcd, Mobile News, Portable Devices, technology, VGA, worlds smallest

Buying a laptop which comes with an extra LCD is like saying you should have better gotten a bigger laptop in the first place. Lenovo has a ThinkPad notebook, the W700 which is coming with a 10.6 inch LCD. Those buying one will be those people not happy with a a 17 inch. Yes, the W700 has a primary 17 inch WUXGA display and an additional 10.6 inch WXGA LCD. What do you think? Interested in one? We have no idea how much it costs and when it comes. But we like the idea.

via NotebookReview

Tags: dual screen, Laptops, Laptops, lcd, Lenovo, Mobile News, Thinkpad, W700

Acer just announced their latest Windows Vista Aero-compatible USB computer monitor with an integrated DisplayLink technology. It is the B223 22-inch screen and it’s a member of the great Acer ergonomic B monitor family.

By using the DisplayLink’s DL-160 network display chip, you can easily connect this monitor to a PC or a laptop with a simple USB 2.0 connection. Another cool feature is the the DisplayLink’s plug-and-play technology enables real quick and user friendly one set-up and only a 5mls response time, which translates in almost no latency and a exceptional performance over more screens.

Oliver Ahrens, Product Business Director at Acer said:

At Acer, we’re committed to enhancing our customers’ viewing experience and mobility, and we realize that different types of users want different features and functionality from their monitors. By adding DisplayLink’s USB technology to our popular 22-inch displays, we’re making it easy and cost-effective for computer users to add extra screens. Building on our expertise with the B series, this new addition is ideal for businesses that need to carry out document comparison activities, or put together complicated presentations, or indeed any other image- or text-intensive computer task.

The B223 will offer you 32-bit true color graphics and a 1680×1050 resolution. It can be yours for $430!
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Tags: 22 inch, Acer, Desktop PCs, DisplayLink, Laptops, lcd

Feel the need of getting a new 23 inch LCD monitor? Dell has one which is almost ready to be sold. The 23 inch SP2309 model has been leaked and here’s what’s waiting for you:

• 2,048 x 1,152 resolution
• 80,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio
• 98% color gamut
• 2ms response time
• Built-in 2 megapixel camera
• Integrated microphone
• VGA/DVI/HDMI input ports

No matter if this model will be Vista 2 ready (yes we mean Windows 7) it would be sure fun to play with a new Dell LCD.

Tags: 23 inch, Dell, Desktop PCs, Laptops, lcd, vista

In case you’re the type of person that doesn’t like to miss an important episode of your favorite TV series, check out this portable 7-inch LCD that will become your best partner in a matter of minutes. Made in Japan by Nikkai, the LCD is able to receive 2 signals, digital and analog.

This portable TV has a battery life of 2 hours, which can be considered good for what it has to offer, and taking in consideration the size of the screen. There are 3 good extras that stand out:

- remote control
- AV cable
- integrated stand to mount it on top of a table

If the integrated speakers aren’t good enough for your needs, don’t worry because you just use headphones, or better yet, external speakers.

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Tags: 7 inch, Crazy Mobile, lcd, portable, Portable Devices, TV

The Japanese company Century has presented a cool device that is also known as an alternative LCD screen. It is codenamed LCD-4300U and will become available in the middle of November.

Think of this Century LCD-4300U as a way to improve your performance when working on a laptop, or to keep your attention focused on the main screen while the unnecessary stuff goes for the secondary screen, be it a MSN conversation or your RSS reader.

The portable display measures 4.3-inches and is powered by USB. It has a WVGA resolution of 800×480 with a LED Backlight. Interestingly enough, you can connect 7 secondary screens to one computer.

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Tags: 4300u, century, Laptops, lcd, Portable Devices

Marking extraordinary leap in display technology, Casio has announced a two-inch display that features 960×540 resolution. What this means is that there are 546 pixels per inch supporting 16.8 million colors. By comparison, those seven-inch portable media players feature 800×480 resolution LCDs.

The Casio display uses a proprietary Hyper Amorphous Silicon TFT (HAST) LCD. They are yet to hit mass production, but damn, I can’t wait to see what they can do with four inches!

Tags: Casio, Crazy Mobile, display, lcd, Portable Devices

If Facebook doesn’t have anymore secrets to you anymore, you must have discovered the LifeChangingBox FaceBook game promoted by Lowe New York a while ago. For about a month, from June to July people had to guess what the product inside the Life Changing Box was. And it proved to be Sharp. Some lucky winners went home with thousands of dollars worth in prizes. And that was just the begining of Sharp’s Life Changing promotion

As you can see in the video Sharp will continuously work to offer us a better LCD experience as they have quite a few years of LCD innovation. Besides that Sharp will work on including solar energy in their production lines so here’s another company thinking eco-friendly thoughts.

And since Sharp is the HDTV official of Major League Baseball you might want to try one of their LCD’s to get the full Olympic action coming from China starting tomorrow. Any sports action will certainly run smoothly on a Sharp LCD.

Now I am only sorry for not getting that much Sharp Facebook time… Not that I would have ever guessed who was in the box!

Tags: lcd, Portable Devices, Projectors, Sharp, sports

Touch screen LCDs are beginning to surface more and more. We’ve seen the Shuffle 19 last week at Computex 2008, it’s time for Princeton Technologies to show us an LCD tablet for the Japanese market. Would you use one? Let’s say you are a regular Joe like me, not an artist who would love to get his hands on a stylus and make his work more efficient. Will you play with that a large touchscreen? I mean is it healthy for my eyes to get even closer to the screen? Is it healthy for my hands to be held in an uncomfortable position?
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Tags: lcd, Portable Devices, Princeton, touchscreen

I have to tell you I like what I see here. First impression always counts a lot when making a choice, so I would definitely give this Shuffle XP19 touchscreen LCD a try. Sure I’d need Windows 7 or any kind of OS supporting touchscreens but I’d still give it a try. Mainly because it looks good. Let’s see what I think about it after we go through it’s specs!
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Tags: Desktop PCs, display, lcd, Portable Devices, touchscreen, widescreen

I like what I see so far. Imagine your cell phone for a second. It has two LCDs on both sides and the both reflect what you are doing. Hmm… why would I need that? How is that useful for a flip phone? It’s a cool concept that can be used for anything that has an LCD incorporated. But for a flip (smart)phone it will make it only look good! Correct me if I’m wrong.

LG are supposed to launch this technology somewhere next week and I am sure they are going to tell us when and where it will be released and what devices will incorporate it.

Tags: lcd, LG, Uncategorized

The Mitac E100 rugged tablet PC has recently been blessed by the FCC. This portable device offers IEEE 802.11 b/g wireless network connectivity as well as on-board class 2 Bluetooth. For added security, the tablet comes with TPM (Trusted Platform Module). It runs on an Intel Stealy 80MHz processor, and 1GB DDR2 memory. The display is an 8.4" TFT LCD, and there’s a shock mounted hard drive.

Designed for convenient use, you can easily work on the E100 while holding it in one hand and operating with the other. One of the neat things about this tablet PC is that it includes a numeric keypad and cursor control keys on the front - ideal when you want to use, for example, the calculator. For connectivity, it features an RJ-45 LAN port and two USB ports. There’s also a PCMCIA slot. Additionally, you can add on an antenna for 3G WAN connectivity or GPS antenna for navigation. There’s also a 3G SIM card slot at the bottom.

Bundled in the packaging are the E100 tablet PC, an AC adapter/cord and touchscreen or digitizer pen (depending on the model). No word on the pricing or availability yet, but should hit the markets any time now.

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Tags: e100, Laptops, lcd, mitac, rugged, tablet, tft, touchscreen, windows xp tablet pc edition

The new Samsung LN-T4665F LCD TV’s innovative S-PVA (Super Patterned Vertical Alignment) solution allows you to see any display clearly due to the 178° wide-viewing angle. Horizontally and vertically, your LCD TV will always be well placed to enjoy the entertainment no matter what your angle of view is.

It has an ultra-fast eight-millisecond response time which means smooth, crisp fast-action video. Furthermore, with bright and dark pictures, the TV’s Dynamic contrast dramatically mitigates the problem by adjusting the backlight intensity, providing up to a 15X improvement in contrast.

Lastly, the TV is equipped with two HDMI connections that you can use to connect your DVD player and digital cable/satellite to experience the best picture possible.

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Tags: lcd, Samsung, Samsung, TV