<-125x125 Button - right->These superb xelo Italian design Flat Panel Display Stands available at Activate The Space in the United States will be showcased at infoComm08 between June 18 and 20 in Las Vegas. Activate The Space is a company specialized in display systems for broadcast control rooms, post production facilities, showrooms, hotel lobbies, restaurants, trade show booths, special events, museums, universities, corporate lobbies, public spaces, and as point of sale display stand.

Xelo stands are designed for plasma and LCD displays located in lobbies, showrooms, retail stores and trade show booths where the Italian models can change the environment completely. They can hold feature 40 and 50 inches flat panel displays and come in standard in glossy white finish with 200 x 200 mm VESA mount, but the customers can choose other color options too.

The tilting device can be set to +/-12 degrees and the stands made of sturdy and safe steel are easy to mount, providing a cable management system with the possibility to conceal cables and wires inside the stem and exited through the small removable cover at the bottom.
Accessories for these stands include shelves, mounting frames, and sliding devices, which can be mounted at any time.

xelo Flat Panel Stands have a starting price of $1,199.

<-125x125 Button - left->Fine Art for FlatScreens is a new and cool room decor idea consisting of 40 jacquard woven tapestries created by Fine Art Tapestries with designs reproductions of original works of art. These are display accessories used for concealing flat screen displays measuring up to 50-inch in diagonal.
It is a cool solution for room decoration when no one watches TV, and can be painted to match the room environment.

Draper has launched this collection adding the latest technology for wireless remote control so the user can simply touch a button or switch to reveal the high-end TV on the wall.
The custom woven PictureWeave tapestries are made by digital photographers and can be painted with companies’ logos.

In this article you can see several models that I chose from the total of 40 available.

Those of you that were searching for instructions about cleaning LCD monitors or TV displays, you have arrived in the right place for that and I have to say it’s a smart step after purchasing such a device because the importance of the cleaning process is high. Why? –Because it is not about the dust and dirt particles gathered on the screen or in the tiny openings between the display’s parts, but, as you know already, an LCD screen is sensitive and requires a specific cleaning method, different from old TV models.

A reflective twisted nematic LCD consists of the following layers: a polarizing filter film with a vertical axis to polarize light as it enters, the glass substrate with ITO electrodes which have shapes designed for determining the dark shapes that appear when the LCD is turned on or off, twisted nematic liquid crystals, glass substrate with common electrode film (ITO) with horizontal ridges to line up with the horizontal filter, polarizing filter film with a horizontal axis to block/pass light, and a reflective surface for sending light back to viewer, which in the backlight LCDs case it is replaced with a light source.

So, you see, an LCD display is not a glass, but something more sensitive. Cleaning LCD monitors requires special attention and you should avoid using anything to clean it, including water or those window cleaning sprays.
But I don’t want you to think it’s complicated. Indeed, it sounds like a complex process but it just sounds. Things are simple if you respect the steps and get used with them. We are in 2008 and these days we can find special solutions for cleaning our LCDs in every IT store.

If at this moment you plant to clean your monitor or TV and don’t have that substance you could use a simple combination of 50% distilled water and 50% isopropyl alcohol on a soft cotton material. Avoid towels or synthetic materials as they either leave traces on the screen or make little damages on the cleaned surface. Also, the accepted substances are water, vinegar and isopropyl alcohol. These just don’t damage you screen if you apply them first on the cloth, not directly on the screen. The unaccepted substances for cleaning LCD monitors and LCD TV screens are: acetone, ethyl alcohol, ethyl acid, ammonia, methyl chloride and petroleum benzene.

Yes, I know that you don’t have these 2 in the house right now and that you’ll have to go out and buy them from the pharmacy, so I suggest you to go to the closest IT store and get a special cleaning kit for LCDs. These come in sets consisting of a microfiber cloth and a gel spray.
If you are back with your kit then let’s get to the cleaning! First you have to turn Off the TV or monitor that you will clean, unplugging the cables, and don’t worry about the PC unit or other electronics around if they are not connected to your display, because this gel is a spray and won’t spill other things around like water does.

Start spraying the screen and then use the microfiber cloth in the box to clean the surface with gentle pressure in any motion you consider to be handy: circular, up-and-down… It doesn’t matter because gels don’t act like water, they are more concentrate and don’t spill. Avoid touching it with your fingers because you could leave ugly fingerprints on it requiring a new cleaning or you could damage it if you press harder. Clean the LCD for about 1 minute, until the gel is dry, and if the surface is larger than remember to clean only with the dry cloth surface, never use the dirty and wet parts. As a parenthesis, you could check the user’s manual for the recommended cleaning method in case your LCD model is let’s say, more special.
One specific characteristic of these cleaning kits is that they don’t contain ammonia or alcohol while the cloth is anti static electricity so they don’t leave tiny pieces of material behind and do not attract the dust in the air while touching the surface.

Well, I think this is it. If you’d like to add some ideas to this article it would be much appreciated because it might inspire others too.

One of the latest and interesting display innovations presented at SID Display Week 2008 is this Gorilla Glass developed by Corning, specialty glass and ceramics leader.
The optically pure thin-sheet glass was designed for customer applications that require high strength such as LCD display covers, and has durable, scratch-resistant characteristics for personal electronic devices, especially touch-sensitive displays.

“What sets Gorilla glass apart is its enhanced durability,” declared Corning’s Gorilla glass program manager James E. Hollis. “This is especially important for handheld devices that are routinely thrown around by consumers. A protective cover made from Corning Gorilla glass is capable of providing the best protection for LCD screens versus any other glass in the marketplace today.”

Corning Gorilla glass can be found in several thicknesses like 0.7 mm, up to 2 mm. It is made from flexible alumino-silicate glass, using the company’s fusion draw technology.

Chief Manufacturing’s Thinstall is the world’s thinnest flat panel TV mount of the moment, designed with the GlideLock technology for easy latching without requiring tools.

The new mount model is destined to fit UltraThin HDTV design, with no interference on cables, and the PAC520 In-Wall Box Accessory for plasma TV installation.

PSMT2015 is included in the Thinstall Series ans was designed especially for Hitachi 1.5 UltraThin HDTVs, featuring 0.49-inch depth and measuring 1/3 of the supported UltraThin flat panels it was developed for. It is compatible with Hitachi UT32, Hitachi UT37 and Hitachi UT42 TVs.