The posthumous victory of the Smart Display concept, then, is only a partial one.
The first smart display products will come to market in January, from closely held Walnut, Calif.
The driver interacts with apps and cloud services via vehicle resources, such as a smart display screen and knobs.
The company is just dipping its toes into the space with the Smart Display DA220HQL, which it's showing off here at Mobile World Congress.
These days, a number of free tablet apps can essentially turn any iPad or Android tablet into a functional Smart Display for Windows PCs or Macs.
Tablet PCs, which have thus far outlived their doomed consumer cousin, the Smart Display, were originally heralded as featherweight slate computers intended to expand the notebook market.
Hailing it as as the future of the (small) monitor whereas Tablet PCs were the future of the notebook, Microsoft introduced Smart Display in 2002 and killed it less than a year after the first models shipped.
Indeed, in the graveyard of failed technology products, the pen computing section is overrun with tombstones - GRiDPad, Zoomer, PenWindows, Momenta, CreuisePAD, Newton, Envoy, Marco, Magic Link, EO, Avigo, Clie, CrossPad, TransNote, Clio, Qbe, Audrey, and Smart Display, to name a few.
"The first point of interaction consumers have with their smartphones is typically with the touchscreen, and as device sophistication continues to accelerate, the overall touchscreen experience is becoming even more critical, " said Kevin Barber, senior vice president and general manager of the Smart Display Division.
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Google Goggle is an "augmented reality" application, which allows users to layer information about the world around them onto a smart phone display.
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.
Similarly, Smart Alert will display any missed calls or notifications when you pick up the phone, using the built-in accelerometer.
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Focus group research presented in the report, The Smart Way to Display, shows a consumer preference for simplicity in visual displays of energy use.
The encased tablets, called Smart Signs by employees, display information about nearby products including prices and configurations.
The 2013 Smart Evolution kit includes a quad-core processor, GPU and memory for faster processing and multi-tasking, the updated Smart Hub and the latest picture display software.
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In addition to the Forstars, a near-production version of the Smart Fortwo Electric Drive is on display at the Paris Motor Show, which continues through October 14.
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But the design is smart, it pulses while animating the display, making you feel like the machine is an intelligent robot butler, making the soda perfect just for you.
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Ideal for notebook users in shared or permanent work spaces, the Compaq L2311c sports a full HD, LED backlit LCD display panel and features HP Smart AC Technology that powers and charges HP notebook PCs while also detecting and regulating the capacity of the electrical current.
Once the show is on the big screen the tablet becomes a smart controller and can play interactive features or display info about the film.
Featuring a touch screen display, the Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat is equipped with mobile and email alerts that put homeowners in control by notifying them when their home is too hot or cold, the humidity level is too high or too low, when the filter needs to be changed, or if the ho me loses power or Internet connectivity.
Smart marketers need to recognize that the barriers between display advertisers and relationship marketers must be dissolved.
Under the concept "Future Smart Living Revolves Around Solar, " Sharp will display new products and technologies that will transform people's lifestyles.
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The idea, company reps say, is that it could act as a secondary display in the office -- one that's smart enough to update apps all by itself.
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Smart sensing technology automatically detects your work conditions to determine the proper display brightness with ambient light and human sensors, while a comprehensive input panel, including HDMI, DisplayPort, DVI-D, VGA and 4-port USB hub, connects users to the latest peripherals and future-proofs the investment.
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That mix has been on display in previous cases of missing girls, most notably Elizabeth Smart and Jaycee Dugard.
These myriad smart TVs, with their varying degrees of technological intelligence, were on display throughout the Consumer Electronics Show.
With MHL, users can display photos and play games from their smartphone on the Personal Smart TV while the phone is charging.
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From another perspective, the resolution format of the newly-developed display is nearly twice the resolution of today's high-resolution smart phone displays.
In this peculiarly smart yet inert comic drama, the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos employs good actors to display the virtues of bad acting.
While LG was discussing washing machines and other smart appliances, we couldn't take our eyes off the 55-inch OLED display sitting on the side of the stage.
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