Launch of Tough and Chemically Strengthen Glass Material for Smartphones, Tablet PC, and TV by Asahi Glass Company
Asahi Glass Company (AGC) has announced the launch of Dragontail ™, a chemically strengthen glass material which is six times stronger than conventional soda-lime glass. The new Dragontail is highly resistance to scratch, featuring a beautiful, pristine finish, compared to resin. The company uses a highly efficient float process in manufacturing Dragontail through extensive technical expertise in manufacturing specialized glass for electronics through manufacturing TFT glass substrates. Read more
TOSHIBA Unveils its New Industry’s Highest Areal Density Hard Disk Drives
This is becoming all case of Déjà vu, as Toshiba yet again beat its own record for highest areal density for Hard Disk Drive (HDD) by announcement of its new 2.5-inch 750GB HDD, industry leading storage capacity in this class. The new HDDs are new addition to company’s existing 5,400 RPM line of 2.5-inch HDDs. The new MK7559GSSXP HDD comes in a form factor of 9.5 millimeter-high, with two-platter design. Read more
Organic EL lighting panel by Panasonic
The Organic electroluminescent technology finds itself in a new but not so unfamiliar neighborhood. The display technology which eliminates needs for backlight in TV display industry due to its self luminous properties has been used for development of lighting panel by Panasonic Electric Works. The prototype was introduced during a speech at “Printable Electronics 2009 event” last month in Tokyo. The new OEL lighting panel features a luminance efficiency of 40lm/W which is nearly equivalent to luminance efficiencies of fluorescent lights. Read more
Sony’s new W5 and F5 BRAVIA LCD TV series
Sony just made an announcement of its new line up of BRAVIA LCD TV the W5 and F5 series. The real big difference between W5 and F5 series beside some choices on LCD panel size is the W5 dual digital TV tuner and F5 single digital TV tuner feature. The W5 series comes in 3 models the 52, 46 and 40 inch size LCD panel where as the F5 series comes in 46, 40 and 32 inch size LCD panel. Read more
Industry first one-seg capable portable DVD player by Toshiba
“SD-P73DTW” the new Toshiba’s potable DVD player comes with a built in one-seg tuner capable of recording One Segment Broadcasting (one-seg) onto SD, SDHC, microSD and microSDHC. The recorded programs by “SD-P73DTW” can be viewed with LCD TVs or mobile phones which are equipped with one-seg functionality. The “SD-P73DTW” is capable of normal real time recoding as well as EPG recording or reserved recording. The “SD-P73DTW” gives the freedom of simultaneous viewing of DVD and one-seg recording to the user. Read more
ECO- Thin TVs according to Panasonic
Like other TV manufacturers, Panasonic made announcement of its thin and power saving VIERA series PDP/LCD TVs, 13 of them all together. The PDP Z series with the thickness of 24.7mm has a wireless transmission function for 1080p HDTV images which is in compliance with wireless HD standard. The PDP model discharge area was increased by Panasonic through increase of electrode width of front panel plus using of different discharge gas and fluorescent material. Through these improvements the luminous efficiency was increased by double in comparison to the 2007 released products. Read more
What sort of things the future TVs holds for consumers
The television that we are so much in tune to watch either alone or together as a family has so much potential and can be more interactive and enjoyable that what it is today, more and more the developer and engineers at TV manufacturing companies expressing similar views. Most of the new development has been focused on its thinness and picture and sound quality or their pure energy efficient functionalities which is mostly self-imposed by manufacturers themselves. Read more
DC power supply a logical answer to reduce power loss
Existing home versions of solar power systems usually convert generated DC power into AC using a power conditioner and supply it to homes. However, because many home appliances currently convert AC into DC by using an AC adapter, power generated by solar cells is being converted twice first from DC to AC and then from AC to DC and as a result even with conversion efficiency of 90% roughly 20% of the generated power is wasted due to this double conversion. Read more
Sony Liblog HS1 home server
Sony Liblog HS1 is one of the latest products from Sony in the area of Home Networking. HS1 is simply a home server capable of receiving data from multiple sources such as digital camera, video camera, and mobile phone and then the user can view them on their PC and TV at home. Read more
