Amazon's light guide technology precisely diffuses the light across the screen and only requires four LEDs to light the entire screen (unlike LCD screens which can use up to 50 LEDs).
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The light itself comes out of four LEDs that pass through a fiber optic glass designed to distribute the light evenly throughout the screen.
The company is in the process of holding an expo in Tokyo, where they've lined up some leading Japanese manufacturers to show off their latest gear, along with concept products that will never see the light of an LCD screen.
In one of the most powerful scenes from the show Mad Men, Don Draper stands in a darkened boardroom, a single shaft of light beaming onto a screen as he delivers the pitch of a lifetime to executives from Kodak.
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The other reason has to do with the status of theatrical exhibitors as the weakest link in the 3-D process. (Some theaters have already been caught reducing light levels on the screen to extend the life of expensive projector lamps.) What happened to me and others at the ArcLight the other night was the height of absurdity.
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Sometimes, these rotations bring big payoffs, such as when 3M realized that the problem of laptop battery life was really a problem of energy used up too quickly for illuminating the screen. 3M researchers applied their knowledge of see-through adhesives to create an optical film that focuses light outward, producing a screen that was 40% more efficient.
His senior year in High School, Greeley invented a device that translated the light patterns on a computer screen into Braille, so the visually impaired could use a computer.
This year's contests include the largest-ever plasma screen (150 inches), the largest Organic Light-Emitting Diode TV (a new bright and energy-efficient screen), the first functioning laser television and the first TVs that receive high-quality wireless streaming from a high-definition signal.
Shriek as a light airplane flies out of the screen and clips you on the nose!
These preproduction models from Samsung were feather-light, with a slightly smaller screen than the standard PalmPilot size.
The lens inside the device picks up the light from the camera's screen.
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Testing out the device, the hardware felt quite responsive and the phone was light while appearing to be all screen.
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The Cybook Odyssey HD FrontLight offers a choice of twenty levels of FrontLighting by sliding the regulator on the touch screen and adjusting the light power according to the environment.
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At 3.9kg (8.6 pounds) it's reasonably light for a system with this screen size, and with an all-aluminum chassis, it has a more premium feel than other MSI machines (not to mention some competing models from brands like Alienware).
She radiates charm and energy and can light up any room (or computer screen).
JVC's approach is to use liquid crystals to block the polarized light that would normally reflect to the screen.
But, like the Nook, the light source creates a problem: blossoms of LED light appear at the bottom of the screen.
"I couldn't read the screen because the way the light was hitting it, all I could see were finger smears, " says the software developer.
Called Paperwhite, the new model has a black and white screen and comes with a light source which enables reading in a dark environment.
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It also sports an "ultrafine" .0065-millimeter pitch along with a "high-contrast filter" that allows the projected image to be reflected by the screen while it absorbs incidental light from other sources.
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An integration of ICC (Integrated Cognitive Creation) technology, developed by I3 (I-cubed) Research Center, and Sharp large-screen panel technology that gives a resolution four times that of conventional full HD LCD panels, the ICC-LED TV reproduces the cognitive process by which the human brain interprets light stimuli, resulting in on-screen images that approach true-to-life quality.
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They have little in common with Mr Antal's stylish main film, in which faces, reflected in mirrors or caught in slivers of light, appear and disappear on a darkened screen.
It also particularly creates a natural white color which reduces eye fatigue and greatly improves outdoor legibility by eliminating the difficulties of viewing the screen clearly under outdoor or bright light.
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The IceTouch (YP-H1), featuring the world's first 2-inch, full color, transparent Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) touch-screen display, functions as a DVD-quality video player, studio quality audio player, an ultra-portable photo album, an FM radio and even a portable storage device.
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Whereas tablet PCs are full-blown PCs that contain all their components inside the casing of a notebook-sized flat-screen display, smart displays are light, portable display screens that connect wirelessly to a PC, so a user can interact with the PC away from the desk for reading documents or surfing the Web.
Utilizing a light bulb as the light source, the light is reflected from a small DMD to the screen.
The external LCD screen has 200, 000 pixels, but that's about 20%fewer than what some standard-video competition offers, and for wide-screen mode a mere 150, 000 light up.
We started out by taking photos of a still projected image of some foliage, from a distance of around two feet from the screen -- by which time the light from the projector had had quite a journey.
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