If you thought 220 million pixels was a lot, well, you’d be right. But given how things are in Texas relative to everything else, we’d say there’s no denying that 307 million pixels is indeed a lot more. Dubbed the world’s highest resolution tiled display, Stallion has just been unveiled by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. Designed for studying diminutive cells and checking out old game footage, the system boasts 75 Dell 30-inch LCDs, each of which has a native resolution of 2,560 x 1,600. It also packs 36GB of graphics memory, 108GB of system memory and 100 processing cores. And just think — if the Longhorns could get that one game back against the Red Raiders, every fan within a 10-mile radius of Austin could see their team in the championship game on this thing.
[Via KanYeWest Blog]
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UT Austin creates world’s highest resolution tiled display: Stallion originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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FED (or Field Emission Display) hasn’t quite caught on as quickly as some other display technologies, but Sony’s still out there doing its best to move things forward, and it certainly looks to have turned more than a few heads with its latest demo. Apparently not content with simply showing off a new 19-inch display from its spin-off, Field Emission Technologies, Sony went so far as to demo it with a customized version of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue that’s playable at 240 fps. To do that, Sony used four PS3s to increase the frame rate, something it had previously done to run the game at quadruple the resolution of 1080p on a Sony SXHD projector. While that setup is out of the reach of most folks, Field Emission Technologies says that FED displays are now finally heading to market, and that some high-end professional FED video monitors up to 32-inches in size will be available sometime next year.
[Via OLED-Display.info]
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Sony demos 19-inch FED display running Gran Turismo 5 at 240 fps originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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In recent months we’ve seen Dell’s design department
running wild with
new colors and art for a lot of their models, such as the
Studio 15 and 17 laptops, and the announcement that
customizable jobs were on the table for 2009. It probably should come as no surprise, then, to see the Inspiron Mini 9 and 12 get some love, too — this time in five patterns by artist Tristan Eaton. Otherwise the same under the hood, the paint-jobbed Minis will run you an extra $50 over the base price of each respective model — $349 for the Mini 9 and $549 for the Mini 12. Check out two more shots of the upgrades after the break.
[Via Electronista]
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Dell’s Inspiron Mini 9 and 12 get artist makeovers originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Got OLED on the brain? What about FED? Holograms suit your fancy? Regardless of how you feel about the world’s latest and greatest up-and-coming display technologies, we’ve got one more that you should probably keep an eye on. Funai has just announced the development of a swank new panel that consumes just 0.16-milliwatts of electricity per square centimeter, or around 1% as much as traditional LCDs. The Dynamic ECD is made of a reflective display that uses color-changing dyes that light up and morph as electricity flows through. In other words, there’s no need for a backlight, and it even boasts 80% reflectivity (compared with 50% on reflective LCDs) for easier viewing in broad daylight. The real kicker? It should cost around one-third as much as an LCD to manufacture. Expectations are to have 7- and 14-inch units out in 2009, though ultimately it hopes to completely dominate the mobile phone and e-book market.
[Via SlashGear]
Power-sipping Funai Dynamic ECD display don’t need no backlight originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/sharp4B.jpg” align=”left” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ style=”display:block;” /Sharp may not do much in terms of ePaper, but they know their way around an LCD. And they’ve just shown off a new type of eight-color LCD that can hold a static image emeven when the power is cut/em./p pThe 14.1, 6.1, 2.4 and 1.7-inch displays are believe to use a cholesteric LCD material to freeze the images. Power specifications were not provided, but freezing data into the display apparently takes a “relatively large” amount of energy./p pAnd while Sharp hasn’t pitched the tech for displaying the newspaper, they do see a lot of potential in the commercial market. One Osaka grocery is already testing several smaller displays that are hooked up to Wi-Fi and can change prices easily. The same principle would work well for nightly restaurant specials and the ever-fluctuating pricepoints at children’s lemonade stands everywhere. [a href="http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20081030/160446/"Tech-On/a via a href="http://www.slashgear.com/sharp-lcd-panel-gets-memory-3020894/"Slashgear/a]/p br style=”clear: both;”/
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Retailers may be having a tough time moving inventory, but they’re not using a Dreamoc to advertise. RealFiction’s latest blend of holographic technology, 3D imagery and mind-blowing eye candy has resulted in the device you see above. Hailed as a 3D display system designed “especially for high profile brands in a competitive retail environment,” this box possesses the innate ability to “mix free-floating animation and video images with physical objects.” We can only imagine how lovely this would be if removed from that chamber and utilized as a tabletop HDTV, for instance, but until the company works that idea into its product line, have a look at the current incarnation (in video, no less) after the break.
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RealFiction’s Dreamoc 3D / holographic display demoed on video originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/mbcomparison.jpg” align=”left” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ width=”638″ height=”425″ style=”display:block;float:none;” /Even though the a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5063492/macbook-and-macbook-pro-dual-review”latest MacBook/a uses the same size display as the last-gen MacBook Air, the displays are not quite the same. The Air, being a more premium product, uses a display that’s more similar to the MacBook Pro than the MacBook. You’ll remember in our a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5063492/macbook-and-macbook-pro-dual-review”review/a that despite being both made out of glass and visually very similar, the MacBook’s 13-inch screen was of a “lower” quality than the 15-inch MacBook Pro screen. You can see that blacks are much blacker and the color representation is much better on the Air./p pHowever, the new MacBook is a bit better than the old MacBook in terms of brightness, but the LED backlighting adds a bit of a blue tint to blacks. The Air doesn’t have this problem, and neither does the MacBook Pro. Minor differences, but it should help the decision if you’re trying to determine whether a MacBook is “good enough”, or if you should go for a MacBook Pro./p pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/mbcomparison2.jpg” align=”left” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ width=”638″ height=”425″ style=”display:block;float:none;” //p pAs a reminder, here are the MacBook vs. MacBook Pro shots. It should be obvious which is which./p pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/IMG_4647.jpg” align=”left” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ style=”display:block;” //p pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/IMG_4649.jpg” align=”left” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ style=”display:block;” //p br style=”clear: both;”/
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Asus is ritzing up its LCD inventory with four new high-end displays this month — the VK266H and VW266H at 25.5 inches (beating out the manufacturer’s current top end) and the VK246H and VW246H at good ol’ 24 inches. They all feature the company’s new Splendid Video Intelligence Technology, run at at 1,920 x 1,200, and have a 20,000:1 contrast ratio, which is a significant improvement over the current Asus flagship’s 3,000:1, but the max brightness is a bit lower. Why two at each size, you ask? Actual specs are identical across the board, but the VK266H and the VK246H have built-in webcams, while the VW266H and VW246H don’t — unfortunately, pricing info is not yet available, so there’s no telling how much extra you’ll be paying to record cringe-worthy YouTube diaries.
[Via PCLaunches; thanks, Vinit]
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Averatec’s latest 18.4-inch PC somehow manages to stand out in the wide world of all-in-ones, and yeah, the $549.99 price point helps in that regard. Laptop Mag managed to get ahold of one of these unique beasts, and they really seemed to dig it. The polarizing design was appreciated, the display was smiled upon and the hardware was decent enough for the most basic of tasks. But we know it’s the images and videos you’re really after, so head on down to the read link for all of that.
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As though the flood of WTF-type phone concepts weren’t enough, KDDI revealed a proof of concept for a wireless, color, e-paper display they have in the works. The idea is that a cellphone would be used to broadcast a signal to the display via infrared. The 13.1-inch display can display up to 4,096 colors and refresh the onscreen image in 12 seconds. KDDI says the display is intended for the finance and insurance industries, where the need to view A4-sized documents are apparently key. [Tech-On]
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