Bendable Display -AMOLED from Samsung

Bendable Display -AMOLED from Samsung

Active-matrix OLED (Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode or AMOLED) is a display technology for use in mobile devices and televisions. OLED describes a specific type of thin film display technology in which organic compounds form the electroluminescent material, and active matrix refers to the technology behind the addressing of pixels. As of 2011, AMOLED technology is used in mobile phone and media players and continues to make progress toward low-power, low-cost and large-size (for example 40 inch) applications.

  

An active matrix OLED display consists of a matrix of OLED pixels that generate light upon electrical activation that have been deposited or integrated onto a thin film transistor (TFT) array, which functions as a series of switches to control the current flowing to each individual pixel.
Typically, this continuous current flow is controlled by at least two TFTs at each pixel, two to start and stop the charging of a storage capacitor and the second to provide a voltage source at the level needed to create a constant current to the pixel and eliminating need for the very high currents required for passive matrix OLED operation.
TFT backplane technology is crucial in the fabrication of AMOLED displays. Two primary TFT backplane technologies, namely polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) and amorphous silicon (a-Si), are used today in AMOLEDs. These technologies offer the potential for fabricating the active matrix backplanes at low temperatures (below 150°C) directly onto flexible plastic substrates for producing flexible AMOLED displays.
Active-matrix OLED displays provide higher refresh rates than their passive-matrix OLED counterparts, and they consume significantly less power.  This advantage makes active-matrix OLEDs well suited for portable electronics, where power consumption is critical to battery life.
The amount of power the display consumes varies significantly depending on the color and brightness shown. As an example, one commercial QVGA OLED display consumes 3 watts while showing black text on a white background, but only 0.7 watts showing white text on a black background.
Samsung Mobile Display will show a prototype of an advanced flexible AMOLED display that is only 0.2mm thick! This display will be 4.5-inch long and would support WVGA 800×480 pixel resolution. This AMOLED display is so flexible that it can be rolled down to one centimeter radius. These flexible AMOLED displays are made from plastic substrates that are not prone to breakage during manufacturing process.

These advanced flexible AMOLED displays are designed for smartphone and tablet PCs. An update about this display hints that the Galaxy S successor, which was rumored last month, may sport it. The Galaxy S successor was said to come with super AMOLED 2 and it seems like Samsung is going to show a similar AMOLED display technology.

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Bendable Display -AMOLED from Samsung

Bendable Display -AMOLED from Samsung

Active-matrix OLED (Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode or AMOLED) is a display technology for use in mobile devices and televisions. OLED describes a specific type of thin film display technology in which organic compounds form the electroluminescent material, and active matrix refers to the technology behind the addressing of pixels. As of 2011, AMOLED technology is used in mobile phone and media players and continues to make progress toward low-power, low-cost and large-size (for example 40 inch) applications.

  

An active matrix OLED display consists of a matrix of OLED pixels that generate light upon electrical activation that have been deposited or integrated onto a thin film transistor (TFT) array, which functions as a series of switches to control the current flowing to each individual pixel.
Typically, this continuous current flow is controlled by at least two TFTs at each pixel, two to start and stop the charging of a storage capacitor and the second to provide a voltage source at the level needed to create a constant current to the pixel and eliminating need for the very high currents required for passive matrix OLED operation.
TFT backplane technology is crucial in the fabrication of AMOLED displays. Two primary TFT backplane technologies, namely polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) and amorphous silicon (a-Si), are used today in AMOLEDs. These technologies offer the potential for fabricating the active matrix backplanes at low temperatures (below 150°C) directly onto flexible plastic substrates for producing flexible AMOLED displays.
Active-matrix OLED displays provide higher refresh rates than their passive-matrix OLED counterparts, and they consume significantly less power.  This advantage makes active-matrix OLEDs well suited for portable electronics, where power consumption is critical to battery life.
The amount of power the display consumes varies significantly depending on the color and brightness shown. As an example, one commercial QVGA OLED display consumes 3 watts while showing black text on a white background, but only 0.7 watts showing white text on a black background.
Samsung Mobile Display will show a prototype of an advanced flexible AMOLED display that is only 0.2mm thick! This display will be 4.5-inch long and would support WVGA 800×480 pixel resolution. This AMOLED display is so flexible that it can be rolled down to one centimeter radius. These flexible AMOLED displays are made from plastic substrates that are not prone to breakage during manufacturing process.

These advanced flexible AMOLED displays are designed for smartphone and tablet PCs. An update about this display hints that the Galaxy S successor, which was rumored last month, may sport it. The Galaxy S successor was said to come with super AMOLED 2 and it seems like Samsung is going to show a similar AMOLED display technology.

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Touchscreen Digital Guitar without Strings

Touchscreen Digital Guitar without Strings

“Among God’s creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not be separated from the man”. This Misa digital guitar is one such creature.

If you play the guitar then the thought of String less guitar will be a Shock to you.  TheMisa Digital Guitar has taken the strings out and put a touchscreen in their place.

According to the manufacturer’s site, the Misa Digital Guitar is not a alternative for the traditional  string Guitar, but rather to morph sounds “in an infinite number of ways.”

One of my friend who plays guitar says “My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who i am.” If you are one of the guys crazy like him, then you should look at this guitar. 

The touchscreen sits in the middle of the body, where the pickups would be on a traditional guitar. The neck is divided into rows of buttons for each of six “strings” and the 24 “frets.” Where normally you would find a bridge and pickups, instead there is a large touchscreen that not only allows you to play notes but control effects and filters. The Misa Digital Guitar is merely a MIDI control unit, powered by Linux, that is must be plugged into a sound module to produce any sound.

The price is not mentioned on the manufacturers website, but It’s certainly not going to be cheap.

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Touchscreen Digital Guitar without Strings

Touchscreen Digital Guitar without Strings

“Among God’s creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not be separated from the man”. This Misa digital guitar is one such creature.

If you play the guitar then the thought of String less guitar will be a Shock to you.  TheMisa Digital Guitar has taken the strings out and put a touchscreen in their place.

According to the manufacturer’s site, the Misa Digital Guitar is not a alternative for the traditional  string Guitar, but rather to morph sounds “in an infinite number of ways.”

One of my friend who plays guitar says “My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who i am.” If you are one of the guys crazy like him, then you should look at this guitar. 

The touchscreen sits in the middle of the body, where the pickups would be on a traditional guitar. The neck is divided into rows of buttons for each of six “strings” and the 24 “frets.” Where normally you would find a bridge and pickups, instead there is a large touchscreen that not only allows you to play notes but control effects and filters. The Misa Digital Guitar is merely a MIDI control unit, powered by Linux, that is must be plugged into a sound module to produce any sound.

The price is not mentioned on the manufacturers website, but It’s certainly not going to be cheap.

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Bamboo keyboard and mouse

Bamboo keyboard and mouse

The Bamboo keyboard has 106 keys while the Bamboo mouse is a optical mouse with scroll wheel. They both use USB interface.

This new USB keyboard and optical mouse are made of Eco-friendly bamboo and works with Windows 2000/XP/Vista and Linux.

  

The Bamboo Keyboard is priced at $39 while the Bamboo mouse costs $19 or you can get both of them for a total of $52(2400 rupees).

 

Product Features:

* 106 keys office keyboard
* Optical Scroll-wheel Mouse
* Keyboard and Mouse are made by bamboo
* Support Window 2000/XP/Vista and Linux
* Dimension: 395 x 155 x 20mm (approx.)(Keyboard)
* Dimension: 102 x 62 x 25mm (approx.)(Mouse)
* Weight: 842g (Keyboard)
* Weight: 87g (Mouse)
* Environmentally friendly solid bamboo housing
* Elegant for the executive, practical for everyone
* Optical sensing technology
* Durable soft-touch keys
* RoHS compliant

Don’t miss the natural feel of wood to sooth you when your are sitting at your desk.

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Bamboo keyboard and mouse

Bamboo keyboard and mouse

The Bamboo keyboard has 106 keys while the Bamboo mouse is a optical mouse with scroll wheel. They both use USB interface.

This new USB keyboard and optical mouse are made of Eco-friendly bamboo and works with Windows 2000/XP/Vista and Linux.

  

The Bamboo Keyboard is priced at $39 while the Bamboo mouse costs $19 or you can get both of them for a total of $52(2400 rupees).

 

Product Features:

* 106 keys office keyboard
* Optical Scroll-wheel Mouse
* Keyboard and Mouse are made by bamboo
* Support Window 2000/XP/Vista and Linux
* Dimension: 395 x 155 x 20mm (approx.)(Keyboard)
* Dimension: 102 x 62 x 25mm (approx.)(Mouse)
* Weight: 842g (Keyboard)
* Weight: 87g (Mouse)
* Environmentally friendly solid bamboo housing
* Elegant for the executive, practical for everyone
* Optical sensing technology
* Durable soft-touch keys
* RoHS compliant

Don’t miss the natural feel of wood to sooth you when your are sitting at your desk.

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Share earphones with your Girlfriend

Share earphones with your Girlfriend

Always wanted to hear your favorite romantic song with your girl friend or boy friend? But could not do so as ear phones dint support it as it has got only two ear buds? Wondered how can you get earbuds for two people to listen at the same time. Try these smart earphones.

The concept is developed at yanko design. Each and every wire in this set is detachable and hooks up to a central module. This means the left ear bud, right earbud, central module and line out are all independent and replaceable when busted. The central module works as a remote control for the player and features basic functions like volume, play and stop.

The earbuds are such that you can hook up two separate sets to the central module so that two people can hear your favorite song. This process can be repeated as many times as possible. That way a bunch of people can hear from the same source.

But the same can also be done using Y adapter that will let you use two sets of earbud headphones at the same time.

 

These Y adapters would not cost more than 100 rupees.  And are available from major electronic manufacturers like Philips.

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Share earphones with your Girlfriend

Share earphones with your Girlfriend

Always wanted to hear your favorite romantic song with your girl friend or boy friend? But could not do so as ear phones dint support it as it has got only two ear buds? Wondered how can you get earbuds for two people to listen at the same time. Try these smart earphones.

The concept is developed at yanko design. Each and every wire in this set is detachable and hooks up to a central module. This means the left ear bud, right earbud, central module and line out are all independent and replaceable when busted. The central module works as a remote control for the player and features basic functions like volume, play and stop.

The earbuds are such that you can hook up two separate sets to the central module so that two people can hear your favorite song. This process can be repeated as many times as possible. That way a bunch of people can hear from the same source.

But the same can also be done using Y adapter that will let you use two sets of earbud headphones at the same time.

 

These Y adapters would not cost more than 100 rupees.  And are available from major electronic manufacturers like Philips.

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Anti-Theft Technology for Laptop Security from Intel

Laptop theft is an increasing phenomena in urban India particularly in student hostels and bachelor accommodations. Intel came up with an in-built feature that will shut down the laptop and make it useless for the thief remotely. Though you may not recover the lost laptop, it will act as an deterrent for a possible theft.

This intelligent laptop security technology is built into select 2nd generation Intel® Core™ and 2nd generation Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor families. This technology is built into the processor, so this will be activated even before that startup.  By remotely activating it, we can shut the pc. It will work even without internet as it is hardwired and as it starts before startup, it is tamper proof.

There is an additional feature which will alert anyone who starts the laptop that the product they are trying to use is stolen one.

When i was discussing about this technology with my colleagues, many were quite skeptical about the feature being used as a loophole for developing viruses.  A friend commented that “Once the remote shut-off has been hacked, there is little to stop someone to set up a iterative program that could continue to dial-up CPUs and shut them down.”

Another one commented that it will give an opportunity to U.S. government to shut down whatever computers they can, whenever they want to.

But i see it as an advantage as this hardware-based technology provides compelling tamper resistance and increased protection. The best feature is Intel AT can now transmit latitude and longitude (using GPS coordinates) to the central server if the system is equipped with a supported 3G module. So you know where exactly your laptop is.  But Intel AT is a subscribed service. Intel AT is activated through service subscriptions from Intel AT-enabled software and service
providers.

Source and for more details: http://www.intel.com/technology/anti-theft/

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Anti-Theft Technology for Laptop Security from Intel

Laptop theft is an increasing phenomena in urban India particularly in student hostels and bachelor accommodations. Intel came up with an in-built feature that will shut down the laptop and make it useless for the thief remotely. Though you may not recover the lost laptop, it will act as an deterrent for a possible theft.

This intelligent laptop security technology is built into select 2nd generation Intel® Core™ and 2nd generation Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor families. This technology is built into the processor, so this will be activated even before that startup.  By remotely activating it, we can shut the pc. It will work even without internet as it is hardwired and as it starts before startup, it is tamper proof.

There is an additional feature which will alert anyone who starts the laptop that the product they are trying to use is stolen one.

When i was discussing about this technology with my colleagues, many were quite skeptical about the feature being used as a loophole for developing viruses.  A friend commented that “Once the remote shut-off has been hacked, there is little to stop someone to set up a iterative program that could continue to dial-up CPUs and shut them down.”

Another one commented that it will give an opportunity to U.S. government to shut down whatever computers they can, whenever they want to.

But i see it as an advantage as this hardware-based technology provides compelling tamper resistance and increased protection. The best feature is Intel AT can now transmit latitude and longitude (using GPS coordinates) to the central server if the system is equipped with a supported 3G module. So you know where exactly your laptop is.  But Intel AT is a subscribed service. Intel AT is activated through service subscriptions from Intel AT-enabled software and service
providers.

Source and for more details: http://www.intel.com/technology/anti-theft/

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Ideas for Better Traffic Lights

Ideas for Better Traffic Lights

Almost 8% of the global road traffic accidents occur in India. Much of the Internet is full of sarcasm & mocking of the undisciplined driving on Indian roads and traffic problems. Take any metro city, be it Mumbai or Hyderabad, no city is exception to the traffic problems.  Other than improving basic driving sense among citizens, as an engineer i am more concerned about our traffic management system.

Virtual Wall Concept:

Product designer Hanyoung Lee has come up with something practical to replace our traffic lights of today. The Virtual Wall from Lee is basically a plasma laser barrier that highlights crosswalks on which pedestrians cross the street. The lasers are not powerful enough to harm cars or people but the effect is enough to make drivers stop and let the pedestrians cross.

Square Traffic Lights:

 

Nowadays, with the advent and almost ubiquitous use of LED technology in traffic signals, we’re no longer tied to archaic concepts like round lights. Russian design studio Art Lebedev argues that a square light the same height and width as a regular traffic light will draw more attention from drowsy and distracted drivers, due to the simple fact that it’s lighting a larger area overall.

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