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As the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games are soon to begin, the London government is now busying with many projects to make the city good enough to welcome guests from all over the world. One of those projects is the LCD smart recycling bins built in London’s streets and public spaces. Each recycling bin features a couple of LCD screens on either side, which will display the latest news from 6 am to the mid-night every day. The bins are fitted with Wi-Fi too, so that they can offer a better and wider connectivity. Since these bins are nearly the most high-tech recycling bins we’ve ever met, each of them will cost about £30,000 to build.

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Use your head and hands, and then you’ll create something simple but magical, just as this privacy monitor. Designed and made with an old LCD monitor, the device looks all white to everybody except you, as you’re wearing “magic” glasses. But why and how? Check out the link below for more details and you may even try to make your own privacy monitor too.

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What’s Maggie? It is an LCD electronic magnifier that can magnify print 11 times its original size. The handheld magnifier not only offers 4x, 6x, 8x and 11x magnification levels but also allows the users to adjust its light conditions and color combinations. Also, it features a ‘freeze’ function to capture images for closer examination. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Toshiba could hardly wait to show you what the LCD displays would be like in the future, and they exhibited a LCD panel that can zoom in and out of an aerial photograph of Google Earth at the SID 2010. The display, featuring a curvature radius of 50mm when bent, is made of a thin edge-lighting LED backlight unit and stuffed with software that can zoom in and out of images. So in the near future, you may change the size of a displayed image simply by bending the LCD. Or you can experience that in advance via the video below. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Can the LCD TVs become much thinner and lighter? Obviously the answer to that question has been known with complete certainty, after the researchers at Japanese chemical company Teijin and Yamaguchi University claimed that they’ve come up a new production method to reduce the weight of LCD displays. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The Boogie Board LCD Tablet may be the best replacement of paper and pen for your usual writing. It features a Reflex LCD screen (a pressure-sensitive and flexible plastic) to display images or words you’ve written on its surface with a pen, a stick or your fingers. Though claimed needing no power to activate the screen, the device still requires a small watch battery to erase the screen. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Disney is romantic, pink is romantic, prince is romantic and the speaker is ultra romantic as it comes with all those romantic elements above. It is a pink, cute speaker from Disney and designed specially for princes-you girls! It includes a CD player with a maximum load, a LCD display and a microphone. More amazingly, you could sing along with your favorite song, too! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Embedded with a LCD screen and a camera, this T-shirt can capture, transmit images and therefore allows the wearers to share the same images with others. The camera in one T-shirt can transmit the video to the other one via wireless technology. For example, as shown in the picture, the blue T-shirt can show the video captured by the orange one. As a result, you may have to buy these T-shirts in pairs. Lovers, get them!

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Measuring 1.96 feet long and weighing 8.2 pounds, the remote control chum-dumping boat is not a toy but a new creation designed to dump about 4.5 pounds chum into narrow places through a remote control of 984 feet or so. Equipped with a sonar sensor, the boat can be used to search for fish under water and transmit the information back through the LCD display. But those are not enough, because the boat also allows you to get more fish in the night with a LED light.

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The peg puzzle player ensures you a free control to every independent module, including the LCD display, volume up/down, next/previous song, sound box, etc. All controlled by Bluetooth Pico-net system, each module can be operated separately and get charged on the cradle.

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Looking ordinary, the stick is actually a multifunctional one that can be doubled as a pedometer with a built-in electronic device to tell users various facts, for example, how many steps you have walked, how many calories have been burned, and how much time you’ve spent on walking. It shows all of these on an LCD screen and it also has a LED flashlight that allows you to walk safely in the night. Such a gadget is suitable to people with six different heighths.

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What a wonderful thing to go to the park with your young child in sunny days! But don’t you worry about losing your baby in a crowded place？The Link Child Locator is just designed for you parents to avoid the bad situation.
It is composed by a bracelet and a watch, which can help you locate your children location by telling you the distances and direction with its small LCD display.
It is a concept design now, and lets hope that we can buy it in the shop soon.

Solar energy powered gadgets are very common these days, but most of them are not energy efficiency. Maybe directly using sunshine is a good alternative. LG Display developed a 14.1 inch LCD panel for laptop can that be illuminated by sunlight instead of backlight unit. In other words, if you are in the sunshine, the energy of light can be cut. In addition to energy saving of 70%, this new product can also offer contrast ration exceeding 9:1 which is much better than traditional ones with merely 2:1 or 3:1 contrast ration. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Yes, you do not need any socket to power the LCD. Just put it under the sunshine, if there is, and then it is gonna be OK. What about the cloudy or rainy days? May be socket have to come back again. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The projector for handset has been developed for about one year and is expected to be released within this year. However, if you want make a presentation, laptop is apparently more useful than a cellphone, what’s more, laptop’s battery life is longer. So, I bet you would like to own a laptop with a built-in projector.

ASUS, a Taiwan based PC maker provide a good choice for us. It comes with an mini-projector on the top of the LCD display and you can rotate it to adjust the position to get the best image. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This conceptual LCD can be divided into two back-to-back monitors if others need another picture different from the one you’re looking at. And when you flip the other half screen back, the picture will immediately spread out to the added half. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Most Americans are accustomed to stick note on the fridge. Although the fridge will never going away as a home message center, this digital device gotta make you message center cleaner.

It comes with a slot for conventional memory note and the face is made from white board so that you can directly write on the it. In addition, you could even record your message in the form of audio or video. When not in use, the LCD display could also functions as a digital photo frame. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Because of the temperature difference between inner and outer of the house, you will catch a cold easier while going out from the warm house. If you know the outer temperature, cold could be avoided.

Just attach it on the window, you could know the temperature of outside immediately from the LCD display. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Sony has released a flexible OLED earlier this year. And now researchers from Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan have developed a new LCD display measuring 10.4 inch. It could reproducing 57 percent of NTSC color gamut. It is said that this LCD is useful for large-size public displays.

This LCD is actually a remote which could be attached on the SLR camera.Its built-in motion sensor could automatically grab shots while detecting object crash into the view. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This clock is not used for timing. It has a little LCD person living inside it. This person performs just like a real man who could also react to alarm clock and even working and sleeping. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This digital gadget could record and analysis the most important points of putts:Impetus run, hitting the ball, speed, swing level and pace. With these data, you could get a scientific training. Plus, the LCD will display a green line, once the putter head parallel to the ground. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Samsung have launched a new big LCD screen which is 40-inch LED-backlit and only 10-mm thin.

It’s amazing!!

Just separate the two parts of the phone, another part of the LCD gonna be revealed. Maybe it’s not a convenient one, it’s still a good design. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A 12.1 inch model at 2.88 mm width from Sharp and an 11 inch model at 3 mm from Sony have been launched on CEATEC 2007. The big difference between the two is Sharp continues to use LCD technology while Sony is pushing OLED. With a long history in LCD, Sharp continues to evangelize the future of the technology. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This new LCD technology is developed by researchers from Taiwan. It could detect the user’s position via a hidden camera and then adjust the crystal to provide best view.

A pool table boasts a built-in PS2, DVD player, LCD TV, speakers, etc. It’s absolutely the home entertainment center. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This phone is based on Internet to receive AD displayed on LCD. Whether it will provide discount by this is not sure. But, I don’t think people would like to be annoyed by AD without any pay. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Displayed by the LCD, this knob could tell the driver the exact moment to shift in order to maximize your gas savings. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This mirror mounted on LCD could help you take weird-angle pictures. It’s easy but useful! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Combined a digital cameral inside, it makes it easy to take pictures anytime anywhere. Additionally, the twin LCDs will display your favorite pictures. [Read the rest of this entry...]