Scratch off those hard to find and expensive items like Wii gaming consoles and big flat-panel screens.
Fujifilm also sought new outlets for its expertise in film: for example, making optical films for LCD flat-panel screens.
Flat-panel screens are stylish and do not take up that much room.
The Dutch electronics giant said the purchase will make it a leader in the rapidly expanding business of flat-panel screens for televisions and laptop computers.
Working out of the University of California, San Diego, Smarr is constructing a campus full of high-speed wireless connections, supercomputers, nanotechnology labs and wall-size flat-panel screens.
He can access a world of information from four flat-panel screens, tracking stock and options prices, spreadsheets on implied volatilities, newsfeeds from Reuters, Bloomberg, Bridge and more.
Outdoor gear retailer REI recently decided to replenish its base of PCs only once every five years instead of three years, thanks to a switch to flat-panel screens that last longer.
And Samsung Electronics reduced its output of flat-panel screens.
In LCDs silane gas breaks down into a film of silicon that forms the transistors that stimulate the pixels in the screen. (Flat-panel screens are essentially large semiconductor devices that sit on pieces of glass rather than on silicon wafers.) Another gas, nitrogen trifluoride, cleans the chambers in which both chips and LCDs are made.
He rejects the idea that Americans are living beyond their means, suckered by teaser mortgages and in hock to makers of 60-inch flat-panel TV screens.
At the Nasdaq OMX Group, a single technician sits in front of eight flat-panel computer screens in a quiet operations center, 51 stories above the World Trade Center construction site.
One thing making that more convenient is a new adapter that Apple announced yesterday that connects Powerbooks, which already come with gorgeous built-in LCD screens, to Apple's bigger and brighter Studio and Cinema flat-panel displays.
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