NEC LCD Technologies has introduced two new 6.5-inch amorphous-silicon TFT liquid crystal display (LCD) modules with high luminance and video graphics array resolution, TFT LCD Modules NL6448BC20-21C and NL6448BC20-21D. The new LCDs eliminate the need for an inverter circuit by employing white light emitting diodes (LEDs) for the backlight system, instead of the cold-cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) that are traditionally used. The white LED backlight system achieves low power consumption in a slim package that, while lightweight, is highly resistant to shock and vibration, making it ideal for use in portable display systems in industrial applications. By eliminating the need for an inverter circuit it becomes possible to curb the generation of high-frequency noise and harmonic current.

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Pure has introduced the palm-sized England Rugby Edition of PURE?s award-winning, Pure Move. This digital radio offers the ideal way to listen to coverage of matches via DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) digital radio stations talkSPORT, Five Live and Five Live Sports Extra. It provides over 40 hours of great sounding DAB through its built-in ChargePAK battery pack. Move can be used with headphones without extending the aerial so users can listen in the park or on the terraces without disturbing others. Alternatively, the sports results can be shared with friends thanks to the high quality in-built speaker. The radio also comes with textSCAN to pause and control DAB scrolling text, 20 presets (10 DAB and 10 FM), an auxiliary input for connecting your iPod and a mini USB connection for future product upgrades. Move also gives access to a huge choice of DAB digital radio stations ranging from XFM and BBC 1Xtra to theJazz and Virgin.
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Fujitsu has released the first PC mouse equipped with a palm vein biometric authentication sensor, as part of the PalmSecure PC Login Kit. With the new PalmSecure PC Login Kit, logins to PCs or applications that up until now required IDs and passwords can now be done using the highly secure palm vein biometric authentication method. Bundled with login-authentication software the Fujitsu device eliminates the need of using ids and passwords. Just hold your palm over the sensor to log into PCs or applications. Once the data of your palm vein patterns is registered, the information can be used for confirming access to all other applications. It also boosts faster authentication speeds without a palm guide and greater tolerance for the distance and angle of the hand when it passes over the device. In addition the firm has made available this biometric technology with a standard device (minus mouse functionality). Both of them are available in black, white, and gray colors.

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With the rise in demand for higher image quality digital camera, Epson Toyocom Corporation has announced the commercial development of a new optical low pass filter (OLPF) for digital cameras. This OLPF features a new structure that enables the uniform separation of light rays across the visible spectrum. An optical low pass filter is often provided on digital cameras to combat moiré patterns. Conventional OLPFs employ a construction containing three quartz plates. The three-quartz plate system, however, does not provide uniform light separation characteristics at certain wavelengths, and thus not all moiré patterns are eliminated. Epson Toyocom’s latest OLPF employs a new structure wherein a wide-band phase retardation film is sandwiched between a pair of quartz plates. This design provides uniform light separation at all wavelengths of visible light and is thus able to eliminate moiré patterns across the visible spectrum.
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Looking for a powerful power supply for your PC, then check out this. Quattro Power, an impressive power supply from Antec, provides up to 850W of power to your PC with a Universal Input that automatically adjusts for 100V ~ 240V power grids. It also comes long with Active Power Factor Correction (PFC) that helps reduce electrical waste and Gold-plated connectors for superior conductivity. Furthermore, Quattro Power is equipped with 2 x 8-pin PCI-E connectors and 2 x 6-pin connectors for PCI-Express graphics cards. Measures 3.4 x 5.9 x 7.1-inch and weighs 2.6kg.

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Panasonic has released the 5m diagonal, about 200-inch “Astrovision/AZ-LE12F series” large LED display. The first large LED display is set at the new “Qiball” public-private complex building in Chiba City. The new display has 40% higher luminance of 5,000 cd/m2 compared with existing models. Pixel pitch is 12.5 mm with each pixel equipped with a small SMD (surface mount device) type “3in1 LED”, which boasts excellent RGB blending. The large Panasonic LED display supports 17-bit gradation and alleviates underexposure by raising the gradation of dark areas in the picture up to 128 times higher gradation. The LED display has also achieved color shift-free, smooth image rendering in its wide viewing angles expanded from the previous model’s horizontal 140 degrees and vertical 60 degrees to 145 degrees and 80 degrees, respectively.

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Asus has announced a new CPU cooler to keep CPU temperatures cool, the Asus Silent Knight II CPU cooler. It utilizes 100% copper for its fins, base and heat pipes; and dynamic fan speed control to deliver efficient heat dissipation for the latest quad-core processors. The Asus Silent Knight II with size of 92×92x25mm supports the Intel?s Core 2 Extreme series, Pentium D Dual-Core CPU, Pentium 4 LGA775 processors; as well as the AMD?s Socket AM2/940/939/754, Athlon 64-FX, Athlon and Sempron processors, making it ready for the latest and most powerful computing platforms in the market today.
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Highly Interactive Parallelised Display Space (HIPerSpace) is a giant television, which is the hard work for engineer at University of California, San Diago. It is the highest-resolution computer display in the world, a screen resolution up to 220 million pixels, which can deliver real-time rendered graphics simultaneously across 420 million pixels to audiences in two of the university’s campuses at Irvine and San Diego. The HIPerSpace system is linked together via high-performance dedicated optical networking that can transfer up to two gigabits of data per second. The screen’s incredible display will come in handy for a variety of worthier, large-scale applications. University of California, San Diego plans to make the display available to teams of scientists or engineers who need to deal with huge amounts of data in areas such as climate prediction, biomedical engineering, studying the human genome, and brain imaging.

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