http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Sat, 18 May 2013 22:00:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/samsung-galaxy-s4-display-shoot-out-how-does-it-compare/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/samsung-galaxy-s4-display-shoot-out-how-does-it-compare/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:00:47 +0000 Raymond Soneira http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=161061 The Samsung Galaxy S smartphones are by far the most popular Android smartphones, and are flagship products for Samsung to show off its latest and greatest OLED display technology. The display on the Galaxy S4 is a major enhancement and improvement over the Galaxy S III — it has a full HD 1920×1080 resolution display [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/samsung-galaxy-s4-display-shoot-out-how-does-it-compare/feed/ 10 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/lg-has-a-flexible-phone-display-coming-at-the-end-of-the-year/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/lg-has-a-flexible-phone-display-coming-at-the-end-of-the-year/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:45:57 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=160897 LG is going to have a more robust plastic display to battle Samsung’s alleged plastic OLED Galaxy Note III, with the company planning to launch a device with a flexible OLED display before the end of the year. LG’s Yoon Bu-hyun, who is the company’s vice president of its mobile division, made the boast at its [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/lg-has-a-flexible-phone-display-coming-at-the-end-of-the-year/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/rumour-galaxy-note-iii-features-unbreakable-plastic-display/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/rumour-galaxy-note-iii-features-unbreakable-plastic-display/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:15:07 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=160291 The next high-end whopper to emerge from Samsung’s design labs might have an “unbreakable” plastic display, thanks to its engineers creating a glass-free OLED screen system that ought to survive any number of drops onto various hardy household laminated surfaces. According to tech specs of this supposed plastic OLED, the display tech is said to [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/rumour-galaxy-note-iii-features-unbreakable-plastic-display/feed/ 11 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/pinch-to-zoom-is-literal-on-this-elastic-touchscreen-display/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/pinch-to-zoom-is-literal-on-this-elastic-touchscreen-display/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:30:09 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=158922 We spend a lot of our time running our greasy little fingers over all kinds of touchscreens, but they just sit there unmoving as untouchable blocks of colours dart around beneath the surface. The Obake display isn’t quite so lifeless, and it’s just begging to be poked and prodded. Designed by MIT Media Lab’s Dhairya Dand and [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/pinch-to-zoom-is-literal-on-this-elastic-touchscreen-display/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/wacoms-new-13-inch-multitouch-tablet-wont-quite-break-the-bank/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/wacoms-new-13-inch-multitouch-tablet-wont-quite-break-the-bank/#comments Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:30:03 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=151551 If you love the idea of pretending to be a hipster graphic designer with one of Wacom’s beautiful Multitouch Cintiq tablets but can’t quite stretch to the £3,000 price tag, good news. The company has just announced a cute — and much more wallet-friendly — 13-inch version. The Cintiq 13HD offers up a 13-inch HD [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/wacoms-new-13-inch-multitouch-tablet-wont-quite-break-the-bank/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/apple-patents-bonkers-magnetic-ipad-holders/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/apple-patents-bonkers-magnetic-ipad-holders/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:45:49 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=146914 Another tantalising glimpse into the future has been offered to us by Apple’s patent department, which foresees a world in which we attach iPads to car dashboards, camera tripods and musical stands via the magic of magnets. Perhaps with one eye on the next-gen console battle that will see phone and tablet integration taken to [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/apple-patents-bonkers-magnetic-ipad-holders/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/check-out-the-whole-history-of-display-resolutions-in-one-big-stack/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/check-out-the-whole-history-of-display-resolutions-in-one-big-stack/#comments Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:00:32 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=145589 Computer screens have come a long, long way in the past decade and a half. With all these retina-grade, impossible-to-discern-the-pixels resolutions floating around, it’s hard to believe we used to deal with displays as low as 640×480 back in the day. This is what all that resolution evolution looks like all in one place. In [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/check-out-the-whole-history-of-display-resolutions-in-one-big-stack/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/youll-never-squint-again-with-this-automatically-resizing-font/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/youll-never-squint-again-with-this-automatically-resizing-font/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:30:08 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=142321 If you’ve ever tried to glance at your computer screen and read something from across the room, you know it’s a pretty futile effort, no matter how hard you squint. This demo website has a solution: dynamically changing font size based on your distance from the screen. The catch? It wants to watch you read. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/youll-never-squint-again-with-this-automatically-resizing-font/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/apple-has-its-eye-on-auto-adjusting-screen-contrast-patent/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/apple-has-its-eye-on-auto-adjusting-screen-contrast-patent/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:15:29 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=137283 Apple’s latest niche little patent idea covers automatically adjusting mobile displays. Such systems have been around for years, but Apple’s new idea uses the contrast level of media rather than ambient light to set its display level. The submitted patent’s flow diagram shows that it would have the ability to analyse contrast levels on a [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/apple-has-its-eye-on-auto-adjusting-screen-contrast-patent/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/does-apple-have-a-brand-new-super-skinny-thunderbolt-display-incoming/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/does-apple-have-a-brand-new-super-skinny-thunderbolt-display-incoming/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:45:55 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=135311 The rumourmongers are at it again. It looks like supplies of Apple’s monster, £900 27-inch Thunderbolt display are selling out across the US, and stocks are even running low in the UK too. Does this mean Apple’s about to spit out a new, super-skinny iMac-like display? Dwindling stock levels are always the first indicators that [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/does-apple-have-a-brand-new-super-skinny-thunderbolt-display-incoming/feed/ 14 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/hisense-transparent-3d-an-incredible-spectacle-even-if-its-pointless/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/hisense-transparent-3d-an-incredible-spectacle-even-if-its-pointless/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:45:20 +0000 Mario Aguilar http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=133973 Hisense’s “Transparent 3D” display technology creates the crazy effect of incorporating real-life objects into a video image. The company thinks the 40-inch demo unit in the image above is the future of how you window shop, but it’s so cool looking that I wish there was something to do with it. The panel works a [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/hisense-transparent-3d-an-incredible-spectacle-even-if-its-pointless/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/why-4k-phones-arent-such-a-bad-idea/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/why-4k-phones-arent-such-a-bad-idea/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:00:24 +0000 Brent Rose http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=133628 At a small press event at CES today, Raj Talluri, Qualcomm’s VP of Product Management dropped this little nugget. “You are just starting to see 1080p display phones. I think that will go even higher.” My brain instantly exploded. If people are working on UltraHD screens for mobile phones, Raj would know about it, as [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/why-4k-phones-arent-such-a-bad-idea/feed/ 17 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/samsung-series-7-touch-monitor-24-inches-of-windows-8-awesome/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/samsung-series-7-touch-monitor-24-inches-of-windows-8-awesome/#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:00:25 +0000 Mario Aguilar http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=131633 Samsung is kicking off 2013 with the Series 7 SC770 Touch Monitor that’s optimised for Windows 8. The 24-inch LCD supports up to 10 points of simultaneous touch on its 1080 x 1920 display and rotates 90 degrees to a vertical portrait setup so you can take full advantage of Microsoft’s flexible new OS. Still [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/samsung-series-7-touch-monitor-24-inches-of-windows-8-awesome/feed/ 3 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/this-dual-lcd-and-e-ink-phone-will-be-available-in-2013/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/this-dual-lcd-and-e-ink-phone-will-be-available-in-2013/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:00:34 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=127503 Earlier this year, a prototype of a dual e-ink and LCD phone was floating around. Turns out it’s much further down the development road than that, though — and in fact it should be available next year. Manufactured by a Russian company called Yota Devices, this is an Android phone at heart. But unlike other [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/this-dual-lcd-and-e-ink-phone-will-be-available-in-2013/feed/ 8 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/self-updating-lcd-grocery-shelf-labels-are-pure-genius/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/self-updating-lcd-grocery-shelf-labels-are-pure-genius/#comments Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:00:37 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=124675 It seems the rumours of e-ink based displays’ imminent death at the hands of tablets were greatly exaggerated. Despite a glut of portable colour screen devices now on the market, e-book readers are more popular than ever, and a company called ZBD Solutions now wants to use the e-ink technology as easily updateable store signage. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/self-updating-lcd-grocery-shelf-labels-are-pure-genius/feed/ 23 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/sharps-32-inch-4k-igzo-display-is-more-exciting-than-a-monitor-should-be/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/sharps-32-inch-4k-igzo-display-is-more-exciting-than-a-monitor-should-be/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:00:22 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=123658 Sharp’s new monitor promises to be something special, offering up 4K resolution powered by ultra-thin IGZO technology to make for a ridiculously high-res but sleek display. It’s going to be gorgeous. But it comes at a price. The monitor promises a 32-inch screen packing a resolution of 3,840 x 2,160 pixels. To save you some [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/sharps-32-inch-4k-igzo-display-is-more-exciting-than-a-monitor-should-be/feed/ 12 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/the-holodeck-is-real-and-its-in-new-york/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/the-holodeck-is-real-and-its-in-new-york/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:00:25 +0000 Andrew Tarantola http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=122144 While we still have a ways to go before the advent of photon torpedoes and warp drives, Stony Brook University has just brought us one step closer to our Star Trek future with the unveiling of its immersive video projection system, the Reality Deck. What? Holodeck was already taken. The Reality Deck is the world’s [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/the-holodeck-is-real-and-its-in-new-york/feed/ 10 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/wsj-samsung-is-betting-big-on-flexible-phones/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/wsj-samsung-is-betting-big-on-flexible-phones/#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:30:53 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=120164 We’ve known for a while that Samsung is readying phones with flexible screens. Now, though, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that it’s pushing forward with the concept more quickly than ever, in order to avoid being beaten to the finish line by other firms. The new phones simply swap plastic for glass in the [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/wsj-samsung-is-betting-big-on-flexible-phones/feed/ 21 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/techs-new-most-meaningless-spec-ppi/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/techs-new-most-meaningless-spec-ppi/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:30:16 +0000 Adrian Covert http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=120082 HTC’s new Droid DNA smartphone has plenty of qualities that make it intriguing. It has a quad-core Snapdragon chipset. It crams a 5-inch display in a body nearly the size of a One X or Galaxy S III. Its Super LCD 3 technology trumps the Super LCD 2 that made the HTC 8x display so [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/techs-new-most-meaningless-spec-ppi/feed/ 22 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/microsoft-surface-display-shoot-out-does-it-beat-the-ipad/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/microsoft-surface-display-shoot-out-does-it-beat-the-ipad/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:00:09 +0000 Raymond Soneira http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=119589 The new Windows tablets, led by Microsoft’s Surface, provide a third major family of tablets for consumers and the computing world. The significance and stakes are enormous because tablets are among the most important developments in computing and consumer products in the last 20 years. Like Google’s Android tablets, the Windows tablets will be made [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/microsoft-surface-display-shoot-out-does-it-beat-the-ipad/feed/ 53