Screens
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Having a second monitor hooked up to your laptop certainly can make life easier, although toting that monitor around and repeatedly setting it up would be a hassle. That's why MIT-backed startup Mobile Pixels created the slide-out Duo, which can be attached to the back of any laptop.
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Smartphone screens seem to crack at the slightest breeze, but researchers at the University of Sussex might have a hardier alternative. A new material made of graphene and silver could lead to touchscreens that are tougher, easy to manufacture, more responsive, less power-hungry, and even bend.
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ScienceIf you’ve ever used your phone in sunlight only to see a reflection of your own face, moths might have your back. Inspired by the natural nanostructures that keep the insect’s eyes from being shiny, a team from the University of Central Florida has developed an antireflective film for phone screens.
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Fog screens, where images are projected onto a fine mist, could open up the possibility of interactive holograms. To make those projections a bit clearer, a team at the University of Sussex has found a way to make shape-shifting fog screens that stays in focus and let multiple users work together.
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Displays capable of 4K resolution and High Dynamic Range (HDR) are getting more common in homes, but remain relatively rare in theaters. In a bid to help get more butts in seats, Samsung has unveiled a new cinema-sized LED display that brings both 4K and HDR to the big screen.
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A new study published in Psychological Science of over 120,000 adolescents in the UK has found that moderate digital screen use actually had a beneficial relationship with teenagers’ well-being.
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Fresh from kitting out a building with motion-sensing digital walls, ESI Design has unveiled an eight-story digital installation at the Wells Fargo Building in the US city of Denver. The installation comprises five 86-ft (26-m) tall LED displays that are six times the resolution of normal HD.
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Scientists have incorporated light-emitting nanoparticles into glass so that it remains almost perfectly transparent, but glows brightly when stimulated. This new "hybrid glass" may one day be used to create new smart glass devices, including smart 3D displays and remote radiation sensors.
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Philips Monitors has created a two-in-one computer display that puts a new angle on multitasking. Instead of splitting your workspace between two separate displays, this unit packs two screens onto one base to create a single, space-saving dual-screen experience.
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Researchers at the University of Bristol have created the MisTable, which combines personal 3D fog screen displays with a communal 2D tabletop display to open up new ways of working in groups or alone.
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A month after CES, Gizmag's Eric Mack finds himself longing for an ultrawide monitor from LG that most people strolled right past on the Las Vegas Convention Center floor.
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California startup Tactus Technology has developed a touchscreen display with physical buttons that can rise out of the flat surface of its screen.
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