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LG has just released in the UK a 38-inch M3800S-BN and 29-inch M2900S-BN stretch display monitor.They feature resolutions like 1,366 x 398 and 1,366 x 480, a 1,000:1 contrast ratio, 9-millisecond response time and a VGA input. Both can be displayed horizontally or vertically. No word on prices, but chances are they’ll be pretty high. [Pocket-lint]
Auo will be launching the World’s slimmist TFT-LCD in both 1.9-inch and 8-inch versions. The 8-inch features a 400cd/m2 brightness and 2.1-gram weight along with a pair of in-cell, multi-touch displays in 4.3- and 8-inches. “They are said to offer superior anti-glare properties while manufacturing the multi-touch feature directly into the LCD cell without more glass.” The 4.3-inch panel will be on shelves this quarter. [Digitimes]
Looks like Samsung’s 14- and 31-inch OLED panels will drop sometime in the net 2 years. According to Woo-Jong Lee, VP Marketing at Samsung SDI states that the medium and large size displays like monitors, laptops, and TVs will get the OLED treatment in 2009 and 2010. Samsung expects to produce about 3 million OLED panels in 2009 for a goal of 6 million in 2010. Hopefully this plan follows through. [Digitimes]
Pandigital has announced its new PanTouch line of digital photo frames with a touch-operation interface. Icons on the screen will show users where to touch and slide their fingers on the surrounding matte for control and access to their digital photos, MP3s, and video clips. The device also comes with Bluetooth and WiFi compatible. The Pandigital PanTouch photo frames are available next month and come in 10-inch (1024 x 768), 8-inch (800 x 600) and 7-inch (482 x 234) models. They are priced at $250, $170 and $120, respectively . [PCMag]
Gefen has just dropped a USB to DVI Graphics Adapter that allows you to connect more displays to all Windows XP and Vista and Mac OS X as well. The device also enables you to do a plug and play connection of a DVI or VGA display to any USB 2.0 port so you can add projectors or other displays to your laptop simultaneous video delivery without a DVI port, and has VGA or DVI display compatibility. $129 [Engadget]
Rest well and wake up gradually with the Philips AJL308 alarm clock that doubles as a digiframe. It comes with nature sounds, pre-loaded relaxation music, a USB port and an SD memory card slot as well as an FM radio. You’ll be able to avoid those annoying alarm noises you get with those conventional alarm clocks. $130 [UberGizmo via Digital Camera Blog]
The Shaper Image Digital Picture Frame does things that most other displays out there don’t. It’s also a weather station which gives you the indoor and outdoor temperatures, humidity, forecast, and even moon phase. It also comes with an alarm clock that sports a precise U.S. Atomic Clock. The best news is, you don’t have to use the scary picture of the kid if you don’t want to, you can use your own pictures.
The Samsung SPF-83V Digital Photo Frame not only connects to your PC to display photos, but you can connect to the web, including your Flickr, when you’re online to display whatever picture you’d like. If you have a Windows Live account with photo sharing, you can also connect to that. Offline photos can be stored on the 64MB of memory or removable formats such as Compact Flash, Memory Stick, SD, and xD. It can also play music and videos from your Windows Media Player.
Just in time for the holidays, we present the Toshiba Tekbright digital photo frame with a 7′ LCD touchscreen, USB 2.0, and a slot for all memory cards, 64MB flash drive and plays all photo formats along with MP3’s. The price isn’t that bad for $266. Take and share all your photos this season!
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