The metallic sheen on this Newman MP3 player reminds me of the mythical mithril from the Lord of the Rings universe. Also called, real silver, mithril is an impregnable and flexible material use by the best of Eleves to protect themselves. The reality of the Newsmy XO is less glorious. This is a cheap DAP [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 30, 2009
Tommasco Gecchelin has virtually confirmed that a MacBook tablet is coming. There’s no mention of a MacBook Nano Touch, however but, then, we’re only really interested in the multitouch feature on a MacBook. The new design will be groundbreaking in not just the touch panel implementation on an Apple laptop but the inclusion of a [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 15, 2009
Contrast - A Sony Flex OLED Walkman Concept from Sony Insider on Vimeo. The future of the PMP market could be the Sony Walkman, that is, if Sony could put the Contrast on retail stores soon enough… before Apple, Nokia, LG etc. get hold of the technology. The technology is a flexible OLED screen wrapped around [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 2, 2008
The Chuwi DIY Design Competition top placer is a 4.3-inch screen, a resolution of 960 × 544 pixel player, which won’t take being called a mere MP4 player lightly. It plays RM, RMVB, AVI with additionaly DivX, Xvid support and STR subtitles. The judges like the cool ultra-thin metal body and the integrated Bluetooth and [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, September 22, 2007
Yong-Seong Kim takes his butterfly-knife dual music player concept into portable DVDs and added flexible OLED. The “balisong” portable DVD player folds into a candybar that you can slip inside the back pocket of your jeans. It should be pretty light weight and durable. Will we ever see it in the near future? Perhaps [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Here’s an interesting concept phone optimized for portable video: the BRIX multimedia phone by Korean designer Seok Won Hong. This device does video with a 1:2 ratio, allowing several units to be clustered together for some really large-screen action. Of course, this is just a concept, so that doesn’t mean the technology for this actually [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Now here’s something to look forward to: LG Philips is trying to patent a new form of flexible OLED screen. This type uses a combination of oil and water to work. The existing batch of flexible OLED screens is limited by the heat generated by these diodes, which is hotter than the plastic substrate. This [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 25, 2007
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7QbQugXy1A[/youtube] Yesterday, we told you about Sony’s breakthrough flexible OLED screen. But writing down the known facts - 16.7 million colors, 1000:1 contrast ratio, .03mm width - is not nearly dramatic as actual moving footage, and here it is, via our French friends at GenerationMP3.
Continue reading...Thursday, May 24, 2007
The world of portable media players and cellphones are dominated by LCD screens that displays 16k to 262k colors, and that’s on breakable screens. Sony’s new flexible OLED is capable of delivering a whopping 16.7 million colors. If you look at it in another way, the 60 x 120-pixel flexible OLED about has 80 [...]
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