I have seen the future of books, and it is the Kindle. Or maybe Kindle rev. 2 will be anyway.
Having witness the repeated failure of several electronic book efforts in the past, I was pessimistic. But now I believe. Amazon’s new approach to the electronic book has successfully tackled several of the [...]
Here’s the HP nostalgia piece.
This is a watershed moment in consumer electronics! For decades now, LCD panel technology has dominated portable consumer electronics despite its need for power-hungry back-lights. The newer AM-OLEDs that are self-emmisive (requiring no back-light) have been in development since around the time I started MicroDisplay in 1995, with some early applications emerging over [...]
HP has just released a new digital camera that includes a new image processing feature they dub the “Slimming Effect.”
There’s no miracle weight loss here, just a simple horizontal stretch transformation which compresses the center of an image and stretches the edges. (Note to the unwary: don’t try this one if your wife [...]
After having started MicroDisplay a few years back, every now and then, someone asks we which television they should buy. Assuming you can convince your SO to tolerate some new living room accessories, now is actually an excellent time to be thinking about investing in a large number of new pixels. [...]
