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Soken shows off mostly ugly wall of e-ink in Japan

Filed under: Displays

Thus far, we've seen OLED rule the FDP International floor in Japan, but now we've got one more emerging display technology showing off its merits: e-ink. Soken Chemical & Engineering Company demonstrated a wall of 30- x 30-centimeter e-ink paper displays in order to showcase just what the technology was capable of. Quite honestly, we're still struggling to see just what that is. Practicality aside, it's still pretty fascinating to think that all of the colors you see above are being emitted from ultrathin displays, though the choice of pattern is questionable at best.

Soken shows off mostly ugly wall of e-ink in Japan originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Eclipse III Backlit Keyboard: a backlit keyboard enthusiast's dream

Filed under: Peripherals

We get pretty tired of keyboards that don't completely rule. The Eclipse III from Saitek probably isn't one of them -- it's backlit, after all, and that backlighting is totally multi-color, which is pretty important. At least to us. If that wasn't enough, this USB plug and play beast boasts a "two stage height" adjustor system, keys which are "laser-etched," headphone and microphone audio ports -- oh! and "time-saving Windows and internet shortcut keys." We have yet to see any indication of price, nor do we know when it will drop. Can we make a suggestion? ASAP would be for the best.

Eclipse III Backlit Keyboard: a backlit keyboard enthusiast's dream originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dell's M109S pocket projector gets itself a ho-hum review

Filed under: Displays

The portable Dell M109S projector which we saw a while back has just been reviewed over at Laptop Magazine. Similar to other pocket projectors, the verdict seems to be that the quality is nothing to explode in excitement over, but is impressive for such a small machine. Laptop praised the projector's LED as one of the "brightest in its class," though they seem disappointed with its non-standard native resolution of 858 x 600. They also laud the simplistic design of the projector, but found the buttons on the box "hard to use," and complained about the lack of remote control capability. Ultimately, they conclude that the size -- not as small as pico projectors, but not large enough to compete with higher-end models -- makes the M109S an awkward middle child. If you want the full rundown, however, hit the read link.

Dell's M109S pocket projector gets itself a ho-hum review originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Election '08 coming home in HD like never before

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

Sure, not every station's pulled out the Star Wars / Iron Man-style holograms for the 2008 election, but they're all trying to put shiny new HD studios to full use and get as many eyeballs as possible until things are decided. NBC & ABC immediately jumped out front at 7 p.m. with data pouring in on the widescreen edges of their HD feeds, with CNN waiting until states were decided to begin updating their lists. ABC's chosen to lean on its touchscreen display and forgo side graphics altogether, while despite Fox's claim as "America's Election HQ", with totally bare shoulders and boring sets, we're pointing our flatscreens elsewhere. PBS, despite airing the clearest, most high quality video available of three old guys at a table, has no slick touchscreens or HD graphics packages to speak of. Think about that as you check out the rest of the screens after the break, and during the next donation drive. Big Bird deserves better.

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Election '08 coming home in HD like never before originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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