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I reviewed Apple's LED Cinema Display late last year and found it a great performer. But it was only compatible with a small subsection of the market--thanks to Apple's use of Mini DisplayPort as its sole video connection. Due to this decision, the display was disappointingly only compatible with the new MacBooks.

This week, Collins announced that it will be the first company besides Apple to release LCD computer monitors with MDP connections.

Collins has dubbed the monitor line CinemaView, and the first three models are slated to be available by September 1.

The three CinemaView displays are … Read more

While we're still waiting for OLED TVs to get more realistic prices, a Japanese company is moving on to making OLED-based posters for advertising.

The prototype, pictured above as a poster for Japan's Rakuten Eagles professional baseball team, uses both organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) and inorganic light-emitting diodes (regular LEDs) to create an image that looks like it's animated, according to Tech-On. The poster measures approximately 29 inches by 20 inches, and was created by Dai Nippon.

The LEDs are used for white backlighting behind a printed color image, and the OLEDs to create the text. Light … Read more

As part of its bid to restructure its liquid crystal display business, Toshiba will buy out partner Panasonic's share in the Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., the two companies announced Wednesday.

Toshiba already owned 60 percent of the company, compared with Panasonic's 40 percent, and the resulting buyout will cost Toshiba about 2 billion yen or about $20 million, a Toshiba spokeswoman told The Wall Street Journal. The deal is scheduled to be completed by April 28, when the name of the company will be changed to Toshiba Mobile Display.

The company, established jointly in 2002, currently produces … Read more

Are you a new MacBook owner getting frustrated with Apple for not yet releasing a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter? Sure we all are. Well, maybe some of us.

I mean, you could shell out $900 for the Apple "I only use Mini DisplayPort" (not an actual quote from the monitor) LED Cinema Display, but seriously, unless you're an AIG exec, who has that kinda scratch these days?

Anyway, Apple has yet to release an official adapter that would allow you to connect your pretty little MacBook to an HDMI-based external display. Thank goodness then for the … Read more

Traffic cameras have some company. Uniformed law enforcers could get a portable third eye soon, if the Taser Axon eventually becomes standard police equipment.

Like the military-inspired Sanwa Throat Microphone which clips around a person's throat, the Axon wraps around the head, with a GPS-enabled camera eye peeking over the ear for full audio-video recording, even in low light.

Fortunately, there's a privacy mode to temporarily suspend recording. After all, who needs to watch our friendly officers take bathroom breaks?… Read more

SAN FRANCISCO--Memristors are arguably the most important thing HP Labs is working on--it could fundamentally change the memory chip industry--but its director has no problem talking about it openly.

While most hardcore research on future products is kept under heavy guard until it can be patented, HP Labs is insisting that forward-thinking technology research has to be done collaboratively and (mostly) in the open.

HP Labs underwent a major overhaul a year ago, shortly after bringing in new director Prith Banerjee. He whittled down the vast number of projects his researchers were devoted to, and laid out eight very specific … Read more

A report released by DisplaySearch on Thursday says that the OLED lighting will become a $6 billion industry by 2018.

There will be an uptick in OLED (organic light-emitting diode) lighting going from small sample products to mass production with Phillips first then GE closely to follow as the leaders in the space, according to the report by Jennifer Colegrove, director of display technologies at DisplaySearch.

The surge should start to happen in 2011.

No one's disputing Colegrove over the birth of cool tech made possible by OLEDS in past years. She gets it right.

"OLED lighting devices … Read more

A collection of nearly two dozen online publishers plan to offer advertisers at least one of three new display advertising formats beginning in July, the Online Publishers Association announced Tuesday.

The ad units are designed to be larger than banner ads, offer interactivity, and comprise a greater proportion of the advertising-to-editorial ratio that most publications operate under.

The move by online publishers comes at a time when the economy is in a recession and advertisers are pulling back on their spending.

"Agencies are looking for new ways to integrate their clients' brand experiences with more interactivity on the page, … Read more

The British newspaper the Guardian announced Tuesday it's launching an open platform designed to offer third parties free access to its content and data, in exchange for carrying the publication's advertising.

With the platform, the Guardian aims to ease the process for third-party developers to design applications and services using free Guardian articles, videos, photo galleries, and other content.

One partner, for example, has developed a service to encourage Guardian readers to geotag all of the publication's content, with the goal of making it easier for readers to find news, video, and other related information in their … Read more