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Photos: Oh Christmas tree, oh LED tree

More than ever, consumers and others are turning to diode tech to save energy in their holiday displays. by CNET News.com

Tags: Diode, Light-emitting Diode, Photograph, Tree, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2007-12-24

A pollution indicator on our car dashboard?

This might soon be possible according to researchers at the University of Manchester. They've designed a near-infrared diode laser sensor able to record levels of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane directly from your car's exhaust. Their device could be one day incorporated into onboard diagnostic systems and be permanently...

Tags: Diode, Researcher, Exhaust, Pollution, Dashboard, Laser, Diode Laser Sensor, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-09

System_Up_Time (widget)

Designed for everyone who would like to take a quick glimpse once in a while at how long the favorite machine has been chugging along since the last OS boot and especially for all the sysuptime obsessed recorder-holders out there. Here is a list of the main features: Diode matrix...

Tags: Diode, Matrix

Software downloads 2007-07-11

Photo: Green light for portable projectors

Laser diode technology is being developed that could someday allow you to project video downloaded to your cell phone onto a wall or screen.

Tags: Laser diode technology, laser, diode, projector, wall, photograph, cell phone, video, phone

Image galleries 2007-05-25

Photos: Sony eyes OLED TVs

Company is looking at ways to bring flat-panel TVs based around organic light-emitting diodes.

Tags: Sony Corp., diode, flat panel, light-emitting diode, organic light-emitting diode, photograph, TV

Image galleries 2007-01-08

System_Up_Time widget (widget)

The System_Up_Time widget is for use with the Yahoo Widget Engine.Designed for everyone who would like to take a quick glimpse once in a while at how long the favourite machine has been chugging along since the last OS boot, and especially for all the sysuptime obsessed recorder-holders out there....

Tags: Diode

Software downloads 2006-05-10

Impedance Optimization of Linearizer to Suppress Intermodulation Distortion in 2.45 GHz SiGe WLAN Power Amplifier

The authors have designed a linear SiGe bipolar power amplifier with an on-chip varactor diode linearizer. This linearizer effectively improves the nonlinearity of the RF Power Amplifier PA. The power amplifier exhibits P1dB of 24 dBm, with a PAE of 31%, and power gain of 17 dB under 3.3V power...

Tags: Diode, Optimization, Amplifier

White papers 2006-03-06

A scarf that changes color

Here is something you can add to your wish list of gifts, but not for this holiday season. According to a brief article from New Scientist, Japanese researchers from Keio University have made a chameleon scarf which changes color according with what you wear. Put a green jacket, and the...

Tags: scarf, light-emitting diode

Blog posts 2005-12-10

Additional Resources

Samsung LN-46A950

We've mentioned before that when it comes to black-level performance, the most-important factor in home theater image quality, you get what you pay for. Samsung's 46-inch LN46A950 is just more proof. This flat-panel LCD represents the company's second generation to offer a backlight based on cutting-edge LED (light-emitting diode) technology,...

Tags: Engineering, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, Overall IT, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., light-emitting diode

Product reviews 2008-09-10

D-Link Xtreme N Duo Media Router DIR-855 - wireless router

We pitted the D-Link Xtreme N Duo Media Router DIR-855 against the only other true dual-band router we've reviewed, the Linksys WRT610N. The DIR-855 beat the WRT610N in overall throughput performance, but its design and desktop setup application couldn't compete. Both routers offer about the same range; the WRT610N provides...

Tags: Home networking, Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, WCN, wireless, wireless router, D-Link DIR-855, D-Link Systems, router, Linksys WRT610N

Product reviews 2008-07-18

About that cellular interference...

About that cellular interference...Fire:Fire: ie://malicious_mpack.site.com/Or something like that. :-DVery Cool AND...I very much think this can be done but also if you can focus enough high frequency energy at a device you will cause a parasitic SCR effect (by the effect of raising a CMOS chip signal input level...

Tags: power supply

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Photos: Sony's OLED TVs gain star status

New superthin prototype draws a crowd--including decor guru Martha Stewart--at the D6 technology and media conference.Sony''s ultra thin OLED (organic light-emitting diode) TV at the D6 technology and media conference in Carlsbad, Calif., on Tuesday. The television is less than the thickness of a credit card and will be on...

Tags: Sony Corp., Organic Light-emitting Diode, Photograph, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-28

Rumor Mill: What you should be saving up for

Howdy. It's Jake, Jason's evil, rumor-mongering twin. It's Friday, which means that it's time for a peek at the current raft of Apple rumors: iPhone 3G – This one is getting more persistant, so it's probably getting closer to being real. The latest word...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, 3G, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Blu-ray, Apple MacBook, Cellular Phones, Notebooks, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, MBP, Notebooks & Tablets, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-04-11

U.S. trade body to probe Sony on Blu-ray

U.S. trade body to probe Sony on Blu-rayWhat perfect timingToshiba abandons HD-DVD on Feb 19th, and then this patent suit is filed on Feb 20.HmmmmmRE: U.S. trade body to probe Sony on Blu-rayPatent trolling....steal money from company whose devices are close to infringement, sue for lots of money and settle...

Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, Sony Corp., U.S. Trade Body

Discussion threads 2008-03-21

Don't underestimate Samsung digital cameras

While camera enthusiasts may be reluctant to count the Korean electronics giant among "real" camera vendors, Reuters is reporting that big names like Canon and Nikon are and should be worried about Samsung's big push into the digital camera market. Quoting IDC research, Reuters reports that Samsung more than doubled...

Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Digital Camera, Camera, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Janice Chen

Blog posts 2008-03-17

Sony XEL-1 OLED TV

One of the most-common questions we get as CNET HDTV reviewers, after the overwhelming favorite "What HDTV should I buy?," is "What's the next big thing in HDTV?" Granted, we don't hear that question as often as we used to, perhaps because LCD, plasma and microdisplay sets have become more...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, surface-conduction electron emitter display, Sony XEL-1, organic light-emitting diode, Sony Corp., HDTV, TV

Product reviews 2008-02-21

HD DVD post-mortem: why did Toshiba fail?

HD DVD post-mortem: why did Toshiba fail?It's all contentWhichever way the studios went, that would be the future. Toshiba was depending on the lower cost of both production and consumer machines to sway the studios, and from a money standpoint, it seemed logical.But the counter by Sony to put...

Tags: HD DVD, Consumer electronics, Hindsight, storage, HD-DVD, Toshiba Corp., disc, DVD, Sony Corp., disk

Discussion threads 2008-02-19

The most exciting cameras at CES, continued...

CES may not be a big show for cameras traditionally, but some of the camera vendors that aren't waiting for PMA this year have outdone themselves with sheer numbers. Samsung announced eight new cameras cameras alone and Kodak trotted out nine of its own. Samsung wins my vote...

Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Camera, Janice Chen

Blog posts 2008-01-09

OLED Displays

The OLED (Organic Light-Emiting Diode), also called as the LEP Light Emitting Polymer and the OEL (Organic EIectro-Luminescence), is the LED (Light-Emitting Diode) whose electroluminescent emissive layer is comprised of organic compound film. The layer generally contains one polymer substance which allows the organic compounds that are suitable to be...

Tags: Organic Light-emitting Diode, OLED TV

White papers 2008-01-01

OLED TVs

For over decades it was told that the flat TV screens, the darlings of the science fiction writers were just about that corner. When they have finally arrived, these technologies got quickly multiplied. Firstly there was the Liquid CrystaI Display LCD technology then there was the plasma, then the Surface-conduction...

Tags: Organic Light-emitting Diode, TV, OLED TV

White papers 2008-01-01