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Highest Brightness, Switchable 2D/3D, and Glasses-free 3D Touchscreen LCD – All Made Possible by Sharp

Before, black and white televisions were overpowered by color TVs to enjoy more the pleasure of watching. Now, LCDs are gaining popularity and made a great leap in terms of features compared to traditional screens. Beginning from 2003, Sharp Corporation has been producing LCD models and this time, they developed another benchmark to pure entertainment, a 3D touchscreen LCD – glasses free!

When we hear 3D display, we are familiar with special eyeglasses that must be worn to experience the 3D effect. But Sharp made it possible to feel the same way though with the absence of the glasses. How did they do that? This is mainly because of the double images produced by means of overlapping the images both in left and right hence creating a sense of depth. The 3D LCD uses a parallax barrier system that includes a series of vertical slits. This system is in charge of controlling the path of light that reaches the left and right eyes to generate 3D images.

Sharp also engineered the 3D touchscreen LCD with the use of CG-Silicon technology to offer excellent image quality through high brightness and low crosstalk. In addition, this technology utilizes crystalline silicon coupled with electron mobility. This means up to 600 times quicker than regular amorphous silicon and up to six times faster than low-temperature polysilicon. The wiring width inside the LCD is minimized to let more amount of light pass which doubles the brightness (500 cd/m2) and making it the highest in the industry to date. Sharp’s glasses-free 3D LCD is also great for mobile phones, smartphones, digital cameras and is switchable between 2D and 3D modes.

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Turn Any Surface into a Holographic Touch Screen with Light Touch

What is commonly found in theaters and cinemas as well as corporate and office presentations can now be found in most flat surface right into your hands. Projector technology has been around for a while now, from the earliest movie houses and overhead projectors to the latest slim LCD designs. Light Touch evolved the projection technology and took it into a whole new level.

Light Touch is an interactive projector that can transform any flat surface into a holographic touch screen. It’s not exactly R2D2 with Princess Leah’s hologram pleading Obi wan Kenobi for help but it’s good to know that the technology is getting there. It liberates multimedia contents from the limits of a tangible screen with the multi-touch technology – unprecedented freedom and interaction. The technology behind Light Touch is the Holographic Laser Projection which displays bright and high-quality video images in WVGA resolution. The full-color holographic laser class 1 projection’s brightness is dependent on the content; 15 lumens for watching videos and 35 lumens for typical applications. To ensure user safety, the lasers are “eye safe” on all conditions. The built-in infrared sensors, on the other hand, detect hand movements and turn the 10.1 projected image to a full featured touch screen. The IR touch screen sensors support multi-touch gestures for added interaction.

Light Touch runs on a Windows CE platform and uses Adobe Flash Lite for a flexible and multipurpose system. Additionally, it has a built-in Wi-Fi and internal 2GB flash memory expandable up to 32GB via Micro SD slot.

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Skiff E-book Reader – The Armored Librarian

Imagine the rare Gerardus Mercator’s “Atlas”, The 13th Amendment, William Shakespeare’s “First Folio”, or the more intricate and expensive Gospels of Henry the Lion and Leonardo da Vinci’s “Codex Leicester” and other antique collection of precious books right into you fingertips. No self respecting bibliophile can resist all that as well as the new Skiff e-book reader. In a market with already more than enough e-readers to choose from, Skiff will truly stand out with its innovative design and world’s first engineering. This new reader features one of the largest e-paper displays in the market measuring at 11.5 inches diagonally. It also has one of the thinnest and lightest designs at 6.8mm thick and mere 498 grams in weight.
Don’t be fooled by the sleek and slim design though, Skiff can probably outlast the Library of Alexandria and Library of King Ashurbanipal combined. It features unique durable magnesium housing with a shatter-proof and crack-proof rugged metal foil e-paper display. The 1200 x 1600 pixels metallic touch screen is actually made of silicon thin-film-transistors (TFT) on flexible stainless-steel substrate. This makes the Skiff reader the toughest e-book reader yet.
Skiff is powered by a fast Marvel CPU and has a large 4 GB internal memory expandable through SDHC 2.0 standard compliant SD-card slot. Another great feature is the extra long battery life. On the average, its rechargeable high-capacity Lithium Ion battery can last for a week for 2-3 hours of charging time. It also supports 3G, Wi-Fi and USB 2.0 connectivity.

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Visit Them Often with Vizit Digital Photo Frame

From printed pictures displayed in a photo frame to digital images loaded of course to digital photo frame (if adding to the electricity bill won’t much bother you), photo mania is obviously in the new trend. Slideshow kinda amazes you; well much more if digital frame can receive, send, share, or even build a community of your loved ones – all with just the move of your finger.
Vizit digital frameNo other digital frames can do that, which makes Vizit the first ever Isabella product to even more modernize the digital photo age. Being miles away is not an excuse not to witness special occasions since you can send photos of the event and the recipient automatically receives it. Aside from its large graphic icons and carousel designed menu, any age group will surely find this device easy to use including its built-in image tagging, deleting/forwarding photos, and simple set-up. You just plug it in and once you turn it on, it is ready to accept or share pictures. It can receive photos from mobile phone, e-mail, computer and any other online photo management sites. Uploading or replacing images does not require any PC connection, memory cards or camera cables. Additionally, the Vizit Widget would offer easy dragging and dropping of pictures onto this widget application.

Vizit also features large and clear LCD screen with 10.4 in. high-resolution. The dimension of 10.95” wide x 7.28” high x .65” deep is perfect either wall-mounted or placed horizontally on your table. Available colors are Silver Finish with White Accent, Silver Finish with Teak Accent, Charcoal Finish with Black Accent and Charcoal Finish with Rosewood Accent.

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Sony VAIO L All-in-One TouchScreen PC/HDTV

Have you always wanted to touch your PC? Well, now you can! Sony has just unveiled its new touch-enabled, multi-media machine – the VAIO L Touch HD PC/TV. With the VAIO L Touch HD PC/TV, your entire entertainment hub is readily at your fingertips. Easily scroll, zoom and rotate by flicking, pinching, twisting and tapping. It is equipped with a 24-inch (diagonal) WUXGA (1920×1080) widescreen panel that displays high-definition content in Full HD resolution and it comes with Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional 64-bit operating system.sony_vaio_l-series_multitouch_desktop_4-540x348In addition to the unit’s integrated HD features, an optional HDMI input is available so you can connect a compatible HD cable box, satellite receiver or PS3 through a single cable and enjoy HD entertainment without turning on the PC. Behind the scenes there’s a choice of processors up to Intel’s 2.66GHz Core 2 Quad, along with up to 6GB of RAM [2GB supported] and up to 1TB of storage. There’s also Bluetooth, gigabit ethernet and WiFi b/g/n, a choice of NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M 1GB graphics or GeForce G210M 512MB, and a face-tracking webcam.

And the best part is – the VAIO L Touch HD PC/TV has a mounting capability that allows users to attach a VESA-compatible mount [sold separately] to it and hang it on the wall of your bedroom, kitchen, office or attach to your desk. When not mounted to the wall, it features an adjustable stand to help you adjust the unit to meet your desired viewing or touch angle or simply to decrease the slant for space-saving.

The VAIO L Touch HD PC/TV will be sold starting next month. For now, you can visit Amazon.com for other Sony Vaio All-in-One PCs.