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Walkman turns 30, introduces OLED X Series: Can it compete with the iPod?

Walkman turns 30, introduces OLED X Series: Can it compete with the iPod?Jackson AND WalkmanI remember buying my first Walkman when I was about 20 that dates me right there, and not long after, I bought [i]Thriller[/i] on cassette.It was just after the album's release, before the song "Thriller" had...

Tags: Utility computing, Servers, Sony Walkman, OLED X-Series, organic light-emitting diode, IBM xSeries, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

Walkman turns 30, introduces OLED X Series: Can it compete with the iPod?

This week marks the 30-year anniversary of the Sony Walkman. But if this is such a milestone birthday, why hasn't Sony been working the 30-years angle? Could it have something to do with Apple's quick success in the area of portable media players? According to...

Tags: IBM xSeries, Sony Corp., Apple iPod, Sony Walkman, Organic Light-emitting Diode, Sony X-Series, OLED Screen, Digital Music, Digital Media, Servers, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-07-01

The Wall Street Journal shows the limits of its HDTV knowledge

The Wall Street Journal shows the limits of its HDTV knowledgeI'm in the market for a flat panel ... ... but I'm really trying to hold off for OLED ... neither Plasma, DLP Projection, or LCD can compare to the quality of CRT, only OLED comes close, and if I'm...

Tags: Monitors & displays, knowledge, organic light-emitting diode, HDTV

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

Heads up! Interactive data eyeglasses

A team of scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS in Dresden, Germany, is working on a device which incorporates eye tracking to influence the content presented to the viewer. Without having to use any other devices to enter instructions, the wearer can display new content, scroll through...

Tags: Team, Temple, Organic Light-emitting Diode, Image, Team Management, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Sony debuts X-series Walkman with Wi-Fi, touchscreen OLED, noise cancellation

Sony debuts X-series Walkman with Wi-Fi, touchscreen OLED, noise cancellationCosts more and does lessThat's generally not a formula for success.RE: Sony debuts X-series Walkman with Wi-Fi, touchscreen OLED, noise cancellationHonestly, the first thing I thought was how Sony is going to manage to screw this up royally with some proprietary...

Tags: Keyboards, Wireless LANs, Monitors & displays, Utility computing, Servers, Sony Corp., X-series Walkman, noise cancellation, IBM xSeries, organic light-emitting diode, touch screen, Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

Sony debuts X-series Walkman with Wi-Fi, touchscreen OLED, noise cancellation

Watch out, Apple iPod touch: Sony today introduced its top-of-the-line Walkman portable media player, the X-series Walkman, that includes Wi-Fi capability and a 3-in. Organic Light Emitting Diode, or OLED, touchscreen. The company says the X-series Walkman's OLED screen provides "exceptional color reproduction,...

Tags: IBM xSeries, Touch Screen, Sony Corp., Organic Light-emitting Diode, Video, Wi-Fi, X-series Walkman, Display, Battery Life, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Researchers develop printable rubber-like OLED displays

Researchers develop printable rubber-like OLED displaysI hope I live to see...A silly putty cell phone. :-)Folding interactive displays are going to be the next cool thing.Other Future ApplicationsWhat about cars that can change color or clothing that can change color?What about suits with built in cameras that display the what...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, printable rubber, OLED Displays, organic light-emitting diode, rubber

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

Researchers develop printable rubber-like OLED displays

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have given new meaning to the term flexibility in the context of displays. They've developed of a stretchable display connected by organic light-emitting diodes OLEDs and organic transistors with a new highly-elastic conductor. [caption id="attachment_1542" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Credit: Takao Someya, the...

Tags: Nanotube, Transistor, Organic Light-emitting Diode, Printing, Nanotechnology, Document Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-05-11

Sony denies abandoning OLED TV market

My post from Thursday night about the state of OLED TV development struck a nerve, as it detailed a report that suggested Sony had lost interest in building bigger sets than its 11-inch XEL-1 (including a quote from Sony spokesman that the company only built the XEL-1 as essentially a...

Tags: Sony Corp., Organic Light-emitting Diode, TV, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-05-02

Sony giving up on OLED TVs? Panasonic, Samsung push on.

Everyone who's seen Sony's 11-inch XEL-1 TV based on OLED technology has fallen in love with it, but that's apparently not enough for the company to keep working to develop bigger sets. In fact, a Sony spokesman bluntly admitted that "We really made the XEL-1 just to prove that we...

Tags: Sony Corp., Panasonic, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Organic Light-emitting Diode, TV, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-04-30

'Minor' MacBook and Mac Pro updates on tap for WWDC

I'm filing this one squarely in the rumor category but a source at 9-to-5 Mac claims that Apple is planning "minor" updates to MacBooks and MacBook Pros at WWDC which runs from June 8-12 in San Francisco. He said he wasn't sure what the minor upgrade was but there...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Organic Light-emitting Diode, Apple Inc., Apple Mac Pro, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Sony Walkman X-series: OLED touchscreen to compete with iPod touch?

Sony Walkman X-series: OLED touchscreen to compete with iPod touch?+ 1I don't much care for apple since they dumped ppc, and with it the last vestiges of business ethics, but I have to agree with you.Resolution doesn't matterWhy even bother mentioning resolution since it doesn't matter at all for portable...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod Touch, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Sony Walkman X-series, Sony Corp., organic light-emitting diode, Sony Walkman, touch screen

Discussion threads 2009-04-14

Sony Walkman X-series: OLED touchscreen to compete with iPod touch?

Sony Japan announced a new series of Walkmen today that may trump the iPod touch. The NW-X1000 series, or X-series, was introduced in January at CES, but will actually be released on April 25 in Japan. The NW-X1050 with 16 GB internal memory, and the 32...

Tags: IBM xSeries, Touch Screen, Sony Corp., Apple iPod, Sony Walkman, Organic Light-emitting Diode, Apple iPod Touch, OLED Touchscreen, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Utility Computing, Digital Music, Digital Media, Servers, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Wacom introduces Intuos4 pen tablet; adds sensitivity, OLED

Tablet-maker Wacom today introduced its next generation of pen tablets, Intuos4, designed for the creative professional and offering improved pen performance and new features. The improved pen is capable of up to 2,048 levels of pressure sensitivity, which enables it to capture very...

Tags: Organic Light-emitting Diode, Wacom, Intuos4, Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-25

Economy's hindering growth in OLED TV production

Economy's hindering growth in OLED TV productionThe economy or the ridiculous price??So it is the fault of the economy that people are not lining up in front of BestBuy to purchase a OLED smaller than the LCDs that are bigger and 90% less???Sorry, but it is not the "economy" that...

Tags: Monitors & displays, organic light-emitting diode, OLED TV Production

Discussion threads 2009-03-10

Economy's hindering growth in OLED TV production

Anyone's who taken a look at Sony's diminutive (11.1 inches), costly ($2,500) XEL-1 OLED TV in action knows why it's hailed as one of the key display technologies of the future. Unfortunately, that future is coming awfully slowly. There was little in the way of announcements at CES in January...

Tags: Organic Light-emitting Diode, TV, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-03-10

Philips: Transparent OLED panels coming

Philips: Transparent OLED panels comingRehash?Philips presented the first flexible OLEDs a couple of years back, e.g. with Sony in 2007: http://www.pcworld.com/article/132249/sony_philips_unveil_flexible_oled_displays.html. OK, they weren't transparent, but why should transparent AND flexible be harder than transparent OR flexible? I guess they can charge more if it seems like a whole new...

Tags: organic light-emitting diode, Philips Electronics N.V.

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

Believe in evolution? Edison, incandescent, flourescent, halogen, LED, then OLED

Believe in evolution? Edison, incandescent, flourescent, halogen, LED, then OLEDCan they make them cheap?"Believe in evolution? Edison, incandescent, flourescent, halogen, LED, then OLED"Pretty amusing how we like to relate created objects to "evolution."I suppose if you define "evolution" as simply "change," it would work. That's how most old earthers...

Tags: Monitors & displays, organic light-emitting diode, LCD, light-emitting diode

Discussion threads 2009-03-05

Believe in evolution? Edison, incandescent, flourescent, halogen, LED, then OLED

From staid and traditional industries the once-separate world of flat screens and lighting have merged to form one of the most exciting frontiers of innovation and new tech. CRTs are now museum pieces. Cathode ray tubes? Supported by both corporate and consumers' desire to save on energy bills and save...

Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Organic Light-emitting Diode, OLED-A, OLEDS, OLED Screen, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-05

Guess who

Guess whoThe God MonitorsCan I have 2 plez!!!!!! I want to use them as monitors for my PC!!!!! Yes really Could you imagine TWO!!! 80 inch monitors!!! You could sit 50 foot away an still sell it clearly:)Sigh . . .Went to their website - and with NoScript on, you...

Tags: Monitors & displays, sky box, virtual sky box, organic light-emitting diode, monitor

Discussion threads 2009-02-21