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Pico projectors may be ten a penny, but this one has something separating it from the pack. It runs Android -- yes, Android -- which is pretty awesome for a projector.
CNET UK
NEC India is targeting growth of 40 percent in the projector market in the current fiscal.
CRN
Digital display vendor MultiTouch this week introduced the MultiTaction Cell 55, which the company says is the largest multi-user touchscreen in world.
CRN
Telly buyers are keener on Smart TV tech than they are on 3D, but both features are going to be taken up more enthusiastically than televisions in general over the next three years.
Reg Hardware
Philips Electronics said it was considering its options should the sale of its TV business collapse as it reported plummeting third-quarter profits and little hope of a material improvement in the near term.
Reuters
The Toronto Public Library is reporting that digital downloads from its site will hit 500,000 this year, double the number from 2010 and more than 10 times what they were in 2007.
Toronto Star
How would you feel if the only way to read the works of Shakespeare was on a Kindle?
Fox News
Mark Cambridge, CEO of touch sensor developer Zytronic, talks about how the UK-based manufacturer is benefiting from the proliferation of touch technology into a growing number of industrial and retail applications.
Electronics Weekly
TV 2 became Norway's first broadcaster to air live 3D last night when it delivered the Norway v Cyprus football match from the national football stadium in Oslo in 3D.
Digital TV Europe
Samsung's app store opened for business in February of last year, and currently enjoys an average of 50,000 downloads per day.
Chip Chick
AAI has developed a giant touchscreen tablet that could allow commanders to give orders to troops on the ground the same way you pick the angle at which you want to launch your bomb bird.
Geekosystem
WHSmith to take on Amazon with touchscreen eBook reader and access to 2.2million titles (October 13)
WHSmith is to sell a range of eReaders as it battles to counter the shift away from real books. The chain has signed a deal to stock two eReaders made by Canadian tech firm Kobo, with a starting price of 瞿89.
Daily Mail
13 Oct 2011
The 2011 shipments of flat panel TVs in India are expected to grow from 5.5M units in 2011 to 20.8M units in 2015, a CAGR of 39%, according to DisplaySearch.
ECNmag.com
With volume production of the eighth-and-half-generation line by BOE in Beijing in June, China FPD industry entered the new phase of advanced generation. It is estimated that the annual output of LCD panel will reach 150 million pieces in 2014.
China Economic Net
Since Android OEMs entered the scene, mobile displays have undergone a major transformation. Makers like HTC, Samsung, LG and Motorola have adopted the 4.3-inch display size as a standard, and some have released even larger devices.
PhoneDog
The Samsung 650TS 65" LCD touchscreen display is an interactive whiteboard with a high-definition LCD touchscreen enabling users to present their ideas through a seamless touch interface technology.
AME Info
A Stanford team of three has created a character-recognition program that would turn pages of Braille into readable text on an Android tablet.
Wired
Intel is disbanding its Digital Home Group, which builds SoC Atom variants for smart TVs and other similar consumer electronics devices. Boxee Box and Google TV are both based on Intel's CE4100 Atom SoC.
Hot Hardware
Consumers who picked up a Panasonic Viera TV last year can now upgrade their IPTV software to match 2011 models.
Channel News Australia
Bargains on smaller HDTVs will be plentiful this year as retailers try to make up for this year's lackluster sales so far.
TechNewsDaily
Industrial Technology Research Institute(ITRI) introduces HyTAC(TM), the world's first environmentally friendly polarizer protective film for LCD displays used in consumer electronics.
Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
Compound Semiconductor
Semiconductor Today
The Inquirer
Sony Corp will recall 1.6 million of its Bravia brand LCD televisions worldwide after several incidents of TV sets emitting smoke or parts melting due to faulty components, a company official said on Wednesday.
Reuters
Having touchscreen displays around seem to be the norm these days, and some of us even dread of going back to the backwater moments when buttons ruled the world.
Uber gizmo
Mobile display technology has come leaps and bounds over the last four years. Starting with the original iPhone, the finger-friendly capacitive touchscreen was introduced, which answered the woes of unwieldy styluses (styli?) and resistive touchscreens.
PhoneDog
Canon's new projector can produce 80-inch images when positioned an inch away from a screen or wall, it announced on Tuesday.
PC World
The world's first HD short-throw home entertainment projector has been launched by BenQ as a new addition to its Home Entertainment Projector Series.
Projector Point
Projector manufacturer Epson introduced four PowerLite models this month, all of which will be made generally available in November.
Channelpro
LG Display's 47" HD LCD panel offers up vertical single side LED backlight technology, which promises maximum brightness while consuming less electricity than other LCD TV panels over 40 inches in size and even normal PC monitors over 20 inches in size.
Hot Hardware
7 Oct 2011
Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
The hype for 3D content and devices pumped up through 2010 has steadily deflated through 2011 as expectations have been punctured by predictable barriers to adoption: screen price, consumer ambivalence about 3D glasses, gimmicky use of 3D by Hollywood studios, and lack of investment in 3D from broadcasters.
Technology Spectator
The Veolo is AC Ryan's version of the LG Smart TV Upgrader and is powered by Android 2.2 (Froyo). Key smart TV functions include a full Web browser with Flash and HTML5 support, as well as downloadable apps, games and widgets from the AndroidPIT app center.
CNET
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