DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
Schott Glass Xensation Shoots at Corning Gorilla Glass 2

What happens when a Schott Glass takes on a Gorilla? Apparently, no broken glass.

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
Tactus Touchscreen Rises to the Occasion & Gets in Touch With Your Inner Keyboard

Anyone can see the possibilities for implementing touchscreen, physical Braille as a benefit to blind users. It’s enough to give a touchscreen goosebumps; and it does too.

 

APPLE
651ppi JDI Display = 2x the Resolution of Apple’s Retina Display

The new kid in town is Japan Display Inc.'s 651ppi, LCD, smartphone display.

 

BATTERY & POWER TECHNOLOGY
Super Lithium-Ion Battery Could Supercharge Phones, PCs, & Cars

When super lithium-ion batteries become common-place in mobile devices, it should be possible to go for days without re-charging for some devices, and twenty-four to thirty hours on a charge for a 2013 thin-and-light ultrabook or ultrathin laptop.

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
FXI Cotton Candy PC-on-a-Stick Upstaged by Chinese MK802 Facsimile

The plot thickened when the FXI Cotton Candy PC-on-a-Stick was dramatically upstaged by a Chinese product.

 

APPLE
Retina Display Resolution – Retina Quality, Retina Class, Retina Style

Apple created the phrase "retina display", as a marketing term, but it actually does translate into solid silicon substance.

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
Driving Convertibles & Merging Laptops + Tablets = Hybrids

Ultimately, many businesses and consumers will find convertible, hybrid, laptop-tablets to be "simply irresistible" to quote a song's lyrics, and resistance will be futile (credit the Borg).

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
Upcoming Phablet Smartphone Technology Trends & Developments

The Phablet smartphone is born converging on the gray zone.

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
Samsung Galaxy Beam Projector Phone – A Quick Look

The Samsung Galaxy Beam projector-phone is being marketed as a fun gadget, and that is appropriate. The very literal bright spot is the projector.

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
Asus PadFone Specs – It’s déjà vu all over again

As the famous baseball icon, Yogi Berra, once said: It's "déjà vu all over again". No, actually it's more like déjà Fujitsu Lifebook 2013 Concept Notebook all over again. Several different types of things are turning into, uhmmm, a multi-thingy device: and so it it with the Asus PadFone.

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
Multifunction Convergence – Fujitsu Lifebook 2013 Concept Notebook

There are gadget-lovers that will get in line to buy this Lifebook 2013 concept if Fujitsu brings it to market. More importantly, that exercise will give the company engineering experience for future designs, that money alone cannot buy.

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
4G IMT Advanced, LTE, WiMAX vs 3G Speed – Executive Summary

When the REAL 4G is actually deployed, UN spokesmen say it will be "like putting a fiber-optic broadband connection on your mobile phone....which will make the present day smartphone feel like an old dial-up internet connection.”