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Hey, what do you know — the Fusion lives! AMD’s CPU / GPU hybrid, which sounded so revolutionary back when it was first thought up, has finally shown off its Accelerated Processing grunt by chewing through a section of Aliens vs Predator live on stage at Computex. We can’t say we were exactly bowled over by the performance — the demo was just a leisurely walk through some leafy terrain, yet still seemed to dip below 30 frames a second at a few points, showing that the APU wasn’t all that comfortable handling the DirectX 11 tasks that were put upon it. This chip is targeted at ultraportables, however, and that’s a crowd with distinctly lower standards than your usual desktop gamer, so maybe there’s a future for this 2011-bound slice of silicon after all. We’ve got video of the full AMD presentation after the break — you’ll want to skip ahead 59 minutes to see the AVP runthrough.

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We don’t know what kind of display-making genii Samsung has locked away in its R&D labs, but the Korean giant is once again demonstrating a world’s first. This time we’re looking at a 19-inch transparent AMOLED display, taking the technology up from the 14-inch model we saw live at CES in January. The company has now achieved a 30 percent transparency on its designs, and its ideas for how they may be used are fittingly futuristic. Samsung envisions storefront advertising, à la your favorite sci-fi movie, as well as HUDs for helmets and car windshields — maybe if TomTom can secure a supply of these screens, the dedicated GPS device can find a way to live on after all.

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Though “Neofonie” is the most apt name for a vaporware company we’ve heard since “Phantom,” it’s looking like that very firm’s 11.6-inch WePad tablet is actually the real deal. Fed up with all the skepticism it has received of late, the German firm just held a press conference in Berlin to show off a pair of working devices and allay our fears. Netbooknews.de was on the scene, and they took a pair of high-res videos that prove the tablets do, in fact, have a working (though somewhat laggy) touchscreen, and that fancy-pants vertical UI is quite functional. Full screen YouTube videos were choppy, but they played, and the Atom N450 CPU loaded OpenOffice and flipped through browser windows without a hitch. But don’t take our word for it — watch the whole 25-minute demonstration after the break, plus a bonus video from AndroidPIT. Then, if you’d be so kind, tell us what the nice company reps are saying.

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Ilan Spillinger, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 VP, was on hand in Tel Aviv yesterday for a showcase of Project Natal. Although there wasn’t much in the way of groundbreaking stuff, the resulting video does show off the motion control system’s gender recognition (done through Natal’s facial recognition … you filthy child) and ability to track two players within the frame at the same time. A tipster from the audience tells us that earlier lag issues have been eradicated, although some jitter was indeed apparent when the second person stepped into Natal’s field of vision. Either way, it’s looking like Microsoft’s Xbox 360 peripheral is progressing well toward its release near the end of this year. Go past the break to see for yourself.

[Thanks, Roy]

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A little gear news from today’s DEMO Conference in Palm Desert, California: MEDL Technology showed a prototype of The Panel, the first fully functional portable LED monitor. It’s meant for laptop users, to give them a lightweight second display that they can easily pack up and take with them. It has a 13-inch screen and weighs just 2.2 pounds. The Panel is battery-operated so it can work in any location.

Connect The Panel to a Mac or Windows computer via a USB port and it’s ready to go in less than 10 seconds. The company claims a 5-hour battery life, fantastic LED brightness, and high-resolution clarity. While laptop users are the target audience, MEDL is quick to say that it can be used with portable video players, iPhones, gaming consoles, and more.

No word on when The Panel will reach stores or how much it will cost, but you can sign up for updates on the company’s site.