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Samsung’s got a reputation for building crazy awesome display technologies, and it just added another one to the stack — with the buyout of Philips-spinoff Liquavista this December, it’s gained quite the foothold in electrowetting. In case you’re not familiar, electrowetting has been repeatedly pitched to us as pretty much the Holy Grail of displays: flexible, colorful, unbreakable, outdoor-readable e-paper screens with high refresh rates and low-power consumption that can be manufactured on existing assembly lines. We’ll have to see if the theories equate to meaningful products, but we imagine ownership by Samsung can’t hurt one bit, especially as the company says it will “expand its leadership in next generation display technologies by pioneering the application of electrowetting in e-Paper and transparent displays.” Sounds like a commitment to us. PR after the break.

Update: Seems that The Digital Reader actually figured out about the deal yesterday — read the original scoop at our more coverage link!

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Samsung buys Liquavista, dives headfirst into electrowetting displays originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Just when MMT’s 15.4-inch Monitor2Go was getting excited about its big USB display on campus title, Greenhouse Japan has strutted in and ruined the party with its 15.6-inch GH-USD16K USB secondary monitor. True, a resolution of 1366 x 768 won’t give the screen bragging rights over Apple’s 27-inch Cinema Display, but it should suffice for those on the move in desperate need of some quick dual-screen action. Especially since the accessory weighs less than 3 pounds, produces 18bit color depth and has a brightness of 220 nits while sipping just 5 watts of Serial Bus power. Speaking of dual-action, the monitor can also be set to clone or extend the connected computer’s screen depending on user preference. Look for it to start shipping early next month to Japan for an estimated price of $214, glancing over its shoulder until an inevitable 15.8-inch newbie lopes onto the block.

Green House reveals its first 15.6-inch USB monitor, lives large on small charge originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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To take John McEnroe’s famous quote badly out of context, you cannot be serious about video recording without giving your devices a nice big display for videographers to monitor their recordings through. Sony’s clearly in agreement and has today revealed the CLM-V55, a 5-inch clip-on unit for its interchangeable lens cameras, that provides WVGA resolution, tilt / swivel adjustments, and color peaking plus pixel magnification to make sure focus is just how you like it. The primary beneficiaries of this would be those delightful A33 and A55 siblings, which strive to combine the fast autofocus of a camcorder with the image quality of a DSLR, along with the NEX-VG10, an all-out camcorder that can nonetheless exchange its lenses and even exploit Alpha-mount glass via an adapter. You can see it outfitted with the V55 after the break, right next to the full press release. Launch is expected in March at an as yet unannounced price.

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Sony outs CLM-V55 video monitor for interchangeable lens cameras originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We had a hunch that PixelQi was going to bring its 7-inch displays to Vegas, and lo and behold we caught a glimpse of the unique transreflective displays today. (For those that have been living under a rock and aren’t familiar with PixelQi — the high contrast 3Qi screens allow for the backlight to be turned off; not only does it save energy, but it’s easy to read in natural light.) The smaller, 1024 x 600-resolution displays are, well, smaller than the previous 10.1-inch version. Most of them, however, were just hooked up to demonstration boards. There was one put into a Viliv X70, but again, this was just a PixelQi mod.

The bigger story at the PixelQi booth, however, came from its founder Mary Lou Jepsen, who not only promises that production is ramping quite well on both the 7- and 10.1-inch tablets, but that the company is working on a higher resolution 1280 x 800-resolution 10.1-inch display and a 9.7-inch display for a partner. We’re not going to read into that too much, but she maintains that they are continuing to work with major companies. She also explained what we have heard before — that much of the tight supply issues were attributed to the recession and that many companies changed their course after the iPad was introduced to make tablets. Obviously, the current 10.1-inch screen is starting to ship in the Notion Ink Adam, but we’re still waiting to finally see the game changing technology in a tablet or laptop from a major manufacturer. With that, we leave you with a bunch of pictures of tablets and netbooks with PixelQi displays that you really can’t buy right now but that will certainly make you drool.

PixelQi demos its 7-inch displays, working on a 9.7-inch version originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Jan 2011 05:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dell’s IPS and multitouch ST2220T finally shipping to tilting monitor seekers originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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