Samsung’s “Needle Slim,” a 3.9mm thin 40” Full HD LED Backlight TV, featureing a 120Hz LCD panel and a 5000:1 contrast ratio is now the world’s thinnest LCD TV.
A panel used in TV sets is usually 2 millimeters in width before the backlight unit is added. There has been a technical issue in making it 3 millimeter slim. Samsung Electronics used its own ultra slim panel designing technology, newly developed major parts and renewed the design of the backlight unit. It decided to use an edge-type LED backlight while combining its manufacturing technologies for optical film and ultra-slim panels.
Samsung Electronics plans to unveil this ultra-slim panel at the FPD International 2009 scheduled to open on October 28 in Yokohama.
Yesterday, Gizmodo released details about the Microsoft Courier tablet. It is reported to be dual 7″ multi-touch screens with a hinge to make it resemble a book.
“My sources say it’s legit, but I’m hearing that it’s just one of several prototypes that has been cooked up as part of a skunkworks project being led by executive J. Allard and a small team of ‘Softies.”
Maximum PC witnessed XPlane 9 and Far Cry 2 running at full resolution on Eyefinity at 12-20 frames per second. HotHardware notes that an upcoming DX11 racing game, Dirt 2, was played at 7680 x 3200 with “perfectly acceptable frame rates” (although 12 fps is not what many would consider “acceptable”).
The feature is called Eyefinity and it allows multiple monitors to be used as a single display. Currently, when multiple monitors are connected to a single PC, those monitors are seen as separate displays that can be configured as an extended desktop or mirroring. With Eyefinity, the displays are arranged in 1 or more groups and the OS sees the groups as single displays.
No word yet on a release date, but Engadget reports that Acer, Dell, HP, MSI and Toshiba already have Eyefinity notebooks in the works.
Read – AMD introduces a graphics chip that can power six computer displays at once Read – AMD Eyefinity Multi-Display Technology In Action
Hard Rock Cafe in the Vegas strip has many Microsoft Surfaces to play around with. Now they have a new point of entertainment. Obscura Digital has put together a huge 18- x 4-foot interactive wall. Up to 6 guests can explore the Hard Rock Cafe collection of memorabilia at a time.
Read – Hard Rock’s press release Read – Obscura Digital’s take
