Seen that? – Turn Your Old Palm PDA into an LCD Display
Turn Your Old Palm PDA into an LCD Display The Smart PDA
For this lazy Sunday, here's something you can do if you have an old Palm PDA lying around. palmorb is another product of Open-Source, and it allows you to convert any Palm OS 2.0 or higher device into an external LCD display. The software's website shows an example, displaying free memory (pictured) or net traffic, but I'm sure you can come up with cooler uses. Unfortunately, as of February 2005, the [...] Read More
Open Source Mobile Battle Warming Up The Smart PDA
We recently saw the launch of Symbian Foundation by Nokia, which would make Symbian OS an open source mobile platform. We also know that Google's Android open source mobile platform has created a buzz in the mobile Industry since its announcement and many mobile manufacturers such as HTC are working on releasing new Android devices. Another company that offers a complete open source mobile platform but we don't hear much of [...] Read More
New Slim Mobile Phone Display Promises Even Thinner Gadgets The Smart PDA
The RAZR was probably a point of no return. When Motorola was able to come out with the slim clamshell smartphone, other manufacturers jumped on the bandwagon, with good reason. Over 50 million RAZRs have been sold, and you can't blame other companies for trying to copy success. Anyways, expect the my-phone's-thinner-than-yours wars to continue. According to Brighthand, LG.Philips LCD has developed the "world's slimmest thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD)," [...] Read More
Sony Skinny OLED Display Measures 3mm The Gadgets Weblog
Is it just me, or are flatscreen displays getting flatter? That would certainly seem the case with Sony's newest OLED, on display at Display Expo 2007. The skinny screen measures in at an anorexic 3 millimeters. How in the world did Sony do it? Who knows, but the picture has a resolution of 1024 x 600. The contrast ratio is literally one million to one. Hopefully the chances of us [...] Read More
New Wearable Display – Application needed The Techwear Weblog
Konica Minolta developed a new display and is looking for possible applications. The technology sounds nice: The Holographic See-Through Browser prototype resembles a pair of eyeglasses and uses a prism with a thickness of 3.5 millimeters and a holographic element to reduce the weight of the display to 27 grams. One use I can imagine – a men (or woman) with a hoover doing this: how a user could watch a motorcycle [...] Read More
