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DuPont’s been dabbling in OLED advancement for years now, and while the world waits for the introduction of market-ready big-screen OLED HDTVs, engineers at the miracle-working company are toiling away to make sure those very sets last quite some time. For anyone following the OLED TV scene, you’ll know that luminance longevity has been a nagging issue, but if new developments pan out, stamina will be the least of our worries. In fact, the firm has crafted a green light-emitting material that can purportedly push onward for over a hundred years… continuously. Furthermore, the same scientists have engineered a new blue light-emitting material with a luminance half-life of 38,000 hours along with a red light-emitting material with a life of 62,000 hours. Unfortunately for the laypeople out there, we can’t imagine this stuff being even marginally affordable — but hey, it’s great news for the sybarites!

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DuPont crafts ultra longevous OLED materials, which likely won’t be affordable originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 May 2009 07:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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And once again, Dell’s website earns its informal title as the number one source for all Dell leaks. Though still not official for the US, the company’s 20-inch ST2010 HD monitor has reared its widescreen head in the customization options for the Studio XPS desktop. Comparing its additive fees with the others on the list, we’d wager the retail price will end up somewhere in the $130 to $150 range. No indication on when we can pick up the monitor sans gaming rig, but it can’t be too far off now.

[Thanks, John]

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Dell 20-inch ST2010 HD monitor pops up Stateside in Studio XPS desktop bundle originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 19 May 2009 03:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Color shifting has been a pipe dream for about as long as alchemists have claimed their studies to be legitimate, but now a brilliant team from the New University of Lisbon can finally say a breakthrough has been found. Essentially, these inventors have conjured up a transistor that changes the color of practically any surface (paper, glass, plastics, ceramics and metals, just to name a few). For what it’s worth, this same team already has quite a bit of display cred, as it has developed technology currently used within Samsung panels. With the help of a few good men and woman at the University of Texas at Austin, the team was able to register for a patent right here in the US, and with any luck, they’ll be giving OLEDs and e-paper a run for their money before we can snap our fingers twice and run around the block. Check a video (narrated in Portuguese) after the break.

[Thanks, Nelson]

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Inventors develop transistor to change color of any surface, your face notwithstanding originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It doesn’t take much to make us happy — in fact, just mention the word “capacitive” and you’re already halfway to winning us over. Throw in “multitouch,” and you’ve got us hook, line and sinker. According to an admittedly dodgy DigiTimes report, Taiwan’s own EETI is gearing up to ship laptop-grade 7- and 12-inch capacitive touch panels in the the latter half of this year, and if you’re to believe it, that’s word straight from company president Mei Tsai. EETI has already begun shipping smaller capacitive touch panels, so larger ones for use in netbooks and ultraportables is just a logical extension of the business. Of course, just because these things ship to OEMs doesn’t mean we’ll see them right away in commercialized products, but we feel pretty good about seeing a few near-final units at CES 2010.

[Via Slashgear]

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EETI to purportedly ship 7- and 12-inch capacitive touchscreens this year originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Are you ready for the latest kneejerk Apple rumor? Of course you are. It seems that the company pulled the 20-inch Cinema Display from its store and let retailers know that the hardware could no longer be ordered.

So, what does this mean? A new display, of course! Probably. Mac Rumors speculates that the company is planning to release a new 20-incher featuring the Mini DisplayPort, which it first introduced back in October with a 24-inch model.

p>What’s the theoretical time-frame for such an announcement? How about that rumored press conference next month, when the company will supposedly introduce new versions of the Mac mini, iMac, and Mac Pro?