High Display

N-trig is a company from Israel focused on developing new technologies meant to allow users to interact with computers and two of their innovative products are the first dual-mode pen and touch input device.
At SID Display Week 2008 in Las Vegas, N-trig showcased a new standard for multi-touch input on large format displays, based on its DuoSense technology with full multi-touch capabilities optimized for large displays.

"N-trig is again raising the bar on the meaning and application of full multi-touch capabilities for large format displays, which will enable OEMs and ODMs to create a user experience that is so immersive that the line between the digital and the physical blurs," said Amihai Ben-David, CEO of N-trig. "By enabling an unlimited number of other people to use their hands to naturally manipulate digital on screen objects, images and more, DuoSense's full multi-touch technology brings the user-computer interaction into a new realm, further breaking down the barriers between man and machine."



A full multi-touch display measuring 22 inches in diagonal can now recognize all the simultaneous touch points from the users. On it you can manage documents like on a desktop computer monitor, moving and pushing these aside with your own hands, and even make sketches or write notes with a pen.

Another capability is of shuffling pictures with both hands. You can also play games in multiplayer mode on the same display, simultaneously.
Such a display, when it will be available on the market, would be useful in the following sectors: gaming, multimedia portable consoles, information kiosks, collaborative design, entertainment, broadcasting, and education.

"We're provoking the imaginations of our customers, setting the stage for OEMs, ODMs, and ISVs to develop a huge range of new applications," added Ben-David. "True multi-touch offers an unprecedented experience which takes people to new levels of what they're able to do with computing devices."
N-trig published this cool video on YouTube showing what this display can do:

A new impressive display model stands out from the crowd, after it was exhibited at MacWorld, CES 2008 and SID 2008.

It is called a CRVD and comes from Ostendo Technologies. A CRVD is an ultra-wide curved display having a diagonal of 42.4 inches and backlighting provided by OSRAM Opto Semiconductors’ OSTAR-Projection high-performance LED light sources. These projection modules have 6 RGB LED chips generating outstanding brilliance and vibrant colors with pure surface emission and extreme brightness, based on OSRAM's Thinfilm and ThinGaN chip architecture.
It features a high native resolution of 2880 x 900 pixels, meaning double WXGA+, and is designed for desktop computers.

It has a curved computer monitor design to wrap around the user and impress with billions of colors, 300 nits brightness, and incredible high contrast ratio of 10,000:1.
Main applications for which DLP-based CRVDs would be a great monitor include gaming, simulation, financial analysis, digital imaging, and web content creation.

"It's an incredible display," said Tom Shottes, president and CEO of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors. "This is the first display that provides such a wide field of view with such dynamic range and wide color gamut. We've worked with Ostendo since they began developing the technology. The high luminance and design flexibility of our OSTAR-Projection technology was a perfect fit."

The curved computer monitor provides an extremely short response time of almost 0.02 ms, having 12-bit dynamic range, viewing angles of 90 degrees on horizontal/30 degrees on vertical, 0.36mm pixel pitch, 71 dpi, 3.2:1 aspect ratio, weighting 25 lbs.
It will be available on the market in quarter 4, 2008.

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.

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.

At InfoComm 2008 between June 18 and June 20, largest displays manufacturers and designers will showcase their latest technologies and upcoming TV/monitor models. Philips will present a 52-inch 3D display destined for digital signage industry, pro-AV and entertainment. It uses the WOWvx technology based on the 2D-plus-Depth format including Declipse, providing outstanding 3D imaging with no need for wearing special glasses.

2D+Depth refers at the regular 2D representation of the images with a depth-map which indicates the distance between each pixel and the viewer. The user gets a 3D imaging impression.

“With our new 52-inch 3D display in the portfolio, we can offer the pro-AV and digital signage market an even higher degree of immersion and a more exciting 3D viewing experience,” said Jos Swillens, CEO of Philips 3D Solutions . “Our broad range of 3D display product – in combination with our full range of content creation tools and our licensing program – makes us a true end-to-end 3D system solution provider”.

The Philips 3D display is an auto-stereoscopic model with 1920 x 1080 full High Definition LCD technology, high 700 cd/m2 brightness, 2000:1 contrast ratio, and 8 ms response time. Auto-stereoscopic 3D displays with support for the Declipse image format enhance the 3D viewing providing the look-around effect and background details.

Philips 3D display will be available on the market starting quarter 4 this year, when we’ll find out the pricing details.