
Filed under: Peripherals
OCZ rolls out Sabre OLED gaming keyboard originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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OCZ rolls out Sabre OLED gaming keyboard originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Samsung (and your local government) hasn’t been shy with its plans for electrifying passports. Yet we still haven’t seen video of its e-passport with flexible OLED display in action, ’till now. The 2-inch, 240×320 AMOLED displays a disembodied, rotating head in 260k colors and 10k:1 contrast when activated by an RF source reader. No details were provided as to when these might enter production but we have the icky feeling it’ll be sooner than we want.
[Via OLED-Info]
Continue reading Video: Samsung’s e-passport turns your head into a rotating government specimen
Filed under: Displays
Video: Samsung’s e-passport turns your head into a rotating government specimen originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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While it’s not the first name you think of in digital cameras, Samsung makes a decent piece of kit and its SL820 took the top prize in our recent summer shootout. So we figured you’d want to know that its WB1000 compact with those smokin’ analog battery and capacity gauges is now on sale for KRW548,000 or about $418 closer to home. The 12.2 megapixel WB1000 features a 24-mm wide-angle 5x zoom Schneider-KREUZNACH lens and 1/2.33-inch CCD with 720p video record mode in H.264 format, max ISO 3200 sensitivity (at 3 megapixel resolution), and Samsung’s Dual IS optical and digital image stabilization to compensate for hand jitter. The viewer won’t disappoint either with a full 3-inch 480×260 AMOLED display rocking the backside. Why should you care? Check the video after the break to see how AMOLED compares to the TFT-LCD found on the Canon SD990 IS under different lighting and viewing angles. The winner is clear, no?
Continue reading Video: Samsung’s 12 megapixel WB1000 rocks analog gauges, 3-inch OLED
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Video: Samsung’s 12 megapixel WB1000 rocks analog gauges, 3-inch OLED originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Looking for a way to differentiate among the ever-expanding niche of pocket projectors, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering (IOF) of Germany are working on an OLED panel-based mini projector, using static optical systems and not the usual reflective system à la DLP. Currently being shown at SID Display Week 2009, the decidedly green picture (seems to be the norm with OLED prototypes these days) forms via a 6-inch VGA screen from 30 to 50 centimeters away, and the machine itself takes up just about ten cubic centimeters of space. Despite all the faith, there’s still the rather nasty problem of luminance, which the scientists estimate needs to be about four or five times as bright as current levels — but hey, you gotta start somewhere, right?
Filed under: Displays, Portable Video
Researchers ditch DLP, develop OLED panel-based mini projector originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Leave it the mad scientists at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft to concoct this one. Rather than just figuring out a way to read back information in one-way fashion on one’s glasses (think Sixth Sense, but with eyewear), these folks are diving right in to the real stuff: bidirectional communication. In essence, their goal for the interactive data eyeglasses is to track eye movement in order to allow ones retinas to scroll through menus, flip through options and zoom in / out on a map. Obviously, a microdisplay will be necessary as well, but that’s just half the battle. We’ll confess — we’re still not humble enough to take our Vuzix HMD out in public, but we just might swap our Transitions[TM] for a set of these.
[Via OLED-Display]
Filed under: Wearables
Interactive data eyeglasses could bring the PC to your face, won’t fix nearsightedness originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Samsung’s been kicking around its 14.1- and 31-inch OLED TVs since CES 2008, but it seems as if things are turning for the better at SID this week. In a press release outed today, Sammy told the world that it’s exhibiting “production-ready” AMOLED TV sets, though the sizes are the same as the ones we’ve seen before. The 31-incher really has our attention, with it being the planet’s first OLED with a Full HD (1,920 x 1,080) display, a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, a color gamut of over 100 percent NTSC and an 8.9 millimeter slim enclosure. So, when does “production-ready” morph into “in production?” Bueller?
[Via OLED-Display]
Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment
Samsung slaps “production-ready” label on 14.1- and 31-inch OLED TVs originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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There it is, the display that wil undoubtedly find its way into your future high-end smartphone. You’re looking at Samsung’s newest AMOLED display now pushing 300 pixels per inch scattered across a 800 x 480 (WVGA) panel with improved brightness. That’s a damn fine display when you consider how brilliant typical 400 x 240 OLED displays are including that of the 480 x 272 pixel stunner found on the Zune HD. Sorry, no word on when these will go mass production but it’s gotta be soon, right? Right!
Filed under: Displays
Samsung’s WVGA AMOLED: 800×400 pixels and swine-flu immune originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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After failing to show at the Mobile World Congress event in February, Samsung’s rumored 12 megapixel cameraphone has finally arrived. Meet the Pixon 12 and its 3.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen with a Sammy promise of fast shutter speeds and quick browsing. As a camera, the Pixon 12 (M8910) brings a dedicated shutter button, touch auto-focus (wherever you touch becomes the focal point) that locks in to track moving subjects, Smart Auto mode that adjusts to conditions, and a 28-mm wide angle lens. The unit also saves images relatively quickly (for a cameraphone) so that you can fire off the next shot within 2 seconds. Just remember, more megapixels do not make for better photos especially when jammed tightly into a sensor small enough for a cellphone. And 12 megapixels translates to files ranging from 2MB to 18MB and beyond depending on the compression used (Samsung doesn’t say). So ask yourself: is it really worth the storage space and the associated delays when uploading images to Samsung’s Share Pix service (with Facebook, Picasa, Flickr integration) over the Pixon 12’s built-in WiFi and HSUPA data? No rush, you’ve got time to decide — Pixon 12 will be hitting Europe in late June, other regions sometime in August. One more pic after the break.
Update: Full specs just came in: 150MB of on-board storage (up to 16GB MicroSD expansion); quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, HSPA 900/2100MHz; Xenon + Power LED flash; 720 x 480 pixel videos at 30fps; internal GPS, and FM radio with RDS.
Continue reading Samsung’s Pixon 12: a dozen megapixels of cameraphone nonsense in June
Filed under: Cellphones, Digital Cameras
Samsung’s Pixon 12: a dozen megapixels of cameraphone nonsense in June originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If watching the N97 crawl out of its Espoo-designed packaging just isn’t enough for one day, how’s about this? An unlocked Samsung OmniaHD (or i8910, if we’re being proper) has found its way into the ever-loving hands of one mareskino, and he was kind enough to unbox the thing on video. Better still, the quality here is second to none, and we’d bet you’ll be drooling by the end of it. If you’re ready to prove us right / wrong, hop on past the break and mash play.
[Thanks, Curtis]
Continue reading Samsung’s OmniaHD gets high-def unboxing
Filed under: Cellphones
Samsung’s OmniaHD gets high-def unboxing originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 May 2009 20:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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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!
Filed under: Displays
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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