Century's Plus One 8-inch USB monitor seems pretty OK for displayin' stuff

You know how it is, with so many apps fighting over that valuable desktop real estate. Luckily, there is no shortage of companies looking to fill the void in your life (or your workflow) with an additional 8 inches of USB-enabled monitorin'. The newest entry into the market is the Plus One LCD-8000U by Century, a digiframe-looking thing that sports an 800 x 600 resolution, 250 cd/m2 brightness, and supports either portrait or landscape mode. What's not to love, right? Well, the fact that it's going for $190 is not very lovable. Still, it's good to have options. Or something. Award winning video after the break.

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[ Tag: century, digiframe, displaylink, LCD-8000U, Plus One LCD-8000U, PlusOne, PlusOneLcd-8000u, sideshow, usb, usb monitor, UsbMonitor ]

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Adapt MPJ-101 pico projector: tiny, cute, available

Go ahead, you can admit it: you're really, really into picos -- the best of us are. Adapt's update to its pocket projector, the MPJ-101 -- which is nearly identical to the previous model -- shouldn't fill us with joy, but it does. This little (125 x 55 x 23 mm) monster's got 1GB of built in memory, an SD slot, and two .5 watt speakers. It projects up to 10 lumens of brightness at a resolution of 640?480 from around 6 to 50 feet. All this excitement doesn't come cheap, though -- expect to shell out about a thousand bucks for this teeny bundle of joy. Oh boy.

[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: adapt, mpj 101, mpj-101, Mpj101, pico, pico projector, PicoProjector, pocket, pocket projector, PocketProjector, projector ]

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Dell's 2209WA LCD monitor reviewed, deemed king of 22-inchers

Dell's 2209WA just surfaced a few days ago, and already we're seeing the first review of said panel courtesy of CNET's Australian branch. The 22-inch IPS display was said to boast "excellent color and viewing angles and great gaming performance" at a fantastic price point, with the only real knocks being the omission of 1:1 scaling and the inset design which occasionally caused reflections. Yeah, minor quibbles indeed. In fact, reviewers struggled to even find those, and they were downright giddy to hand out a 9 out of 10 rating along with this strongly worded quote: "This is the best 22-inch monitor we've seen." 'Nuff said, huh?

[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: 2209WA, dell, IPS, lcd, lcd monitor, LcdMonitor, monitor, review, reviewed ]

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Eyes on with LG's near-production 15-inch OLED TV: come on summer

While Sony's OLED TV is little more than a beautiful, 11-inch novelty, lg is swaggering dangerously close to a respectable kitchen TV with this 15-inch AMOLED TV prototype. On display here at ces and planned for a production run sometime this summer, the image is absolutely stunning -- every bit as impressive as the Sony's XEL-1. Nothing else compares to the incredible contrast achieved by these OLED displays. Have a look in the gallery -- we've got the prototype pictured with and without its chubby TV bezel. It's credit-card thin (0.8-mm) and only on Engadget.
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Sony debuts four new Bluetooth-ready digital photo frames

We know, the digiframe market is just downright saturated with ho hum offerings that offer little innovation and oodles of boring, but Sony's got four out today at ces that are just a step or two above the rest. Kicking things off is the top-end DPF-X1000 ($300; March) and second-tier DPF-V1000 ($250; March), both of which offer 10-inch panels, an alarm clock, auto dimmer, a variety of slideshow functions, an auto orientation sensor and a bit of magic that "auto corrects the white balance" in your photos. The former model arrives with 2GB of internal storage and sports a black / wood-trimmed motif, while the latter fellow gets half the storage and a less striking silver trim. Following those two are the 9-inch DPF-D92 and 8-inch DPF-D82, both of which have a VGA panel, 1GB of memory and would love be wall-mounted.
[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: alarm clock, AlarmClock, bluetooth, ces, ces 2009, Ces2009, clock, digiframe, digital photo frame, DigitalPhotoFrame, DPF-D82, DPF-D92, DPF-V1000, DPF-X1000, photo frame, PhotoFrame, sony ]

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Wrist-worn flexible OLED prototype is for the military, but kids like it too

Flexible OLED displays are becoming more and more commonplace (and festive), despite not actually being available in any devices you can buy just yet. When that day finally comes, Universal Display Corporation thinks one of those gadgets will be something like the above: a wearable, flexible, 4-inch prototype screen that ces attendees will be able to check out and maybe even try on -- albeit uncomfortably. It's been developed with military applications in mind (they always get the cool stuff first), but bendy consumer devices are naturally envisioned as well. There's no word on when we'll start seeing them in passports or flexi-phones, but we're thinking we have a while to wait yet.


[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: ces, ces 2009, Ces2009, flexible display, flexible oled, FlexibleDisplay, FlexibleOled, oled, universal display corporation, UniversalDisplayCorporation, wearable display, WearableDisplay ]

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GestureTek brings 3D and gestures together for remote control

The idea of gesture-based remote control isn't new, but GestureTek has added in 3D tracking to the mix for, you guessed it -- even more expressive interaction with your TV. After all, you don't live in flatland, so why should your remote control gestures? Of course, adding in depth perception requires the use of more than one webcam, but maybe that's not a big tradeoff in our age of six and more speakers in the living room. The setup will be on display at CES (sans Xpletive), so we'll try and swing by for a, um, hands on while we puzzle over how to add voice commands to this system. Watching the big game with your buddies just might get even more entertaining yet.

[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: ces, ces 2009, Ces2009, gesture, gesturetek, remote, remote control, RemoteControl ]

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Samsung prepping 6.5mm LCD for debut at CES

Samsung Korea has announced it will reveal an ever-so-thin hdtv prototype at ces this week -- a clear trend going into the show. There's a paucity of info about it as of now, but it's going to be between 6.5 and 7mm thick -- and it doesn't appear to be part of the possible lineup we saw leaked a while back. "Thinnest HDTV" ever, huh? We'll see about that soon enough: Samsung's Vegas press conference is scheduled for Wednesday.

[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: backlit, ces, ces2009, hdtv, leak, led, samsung ]

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LG's super slim LED backlit LCD packing wireless HD, DivX HD

Finally ready to give up further details on its 24.8-mm thick LED backlit LH95 (apparently dubbed the LH9500 in the UK), revealing to Stuff.tv we can expect a 55-inch HDTV with wireless hd box included. DivX hd support on the panel itself (sorry, no word about any Netflix streaming abilities just yet) via USB or Bluetooth makes sure there will be plenty to watch on the 2,000,000:1 contrast screen with 240Hz technology. At least on paper, one of the slimmest, best looking LCDs we've heard about so far, we'll see if it impresses in person shortly.

[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: 240hz, ces, ces 2009, Ces2009, divx, divx hd, DivxHd, lcd, led, lg, lh95, lh9500, wireless hd, WirelessHd ]

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3M's MPro110 pocket projector reviewed: okay for geeks, so it's okay for you

3M's MPro110 never set out to blow minds, just to wow those who thought projectors could never be this small. According to Gadling's hands-on review, it achieved its goal(s). With a brightness of just 7 lumens, the actual image that it produced wasn't exactly stunning, but it was deemed "far from useless." The biggest knock was just how limited it was in terms of real-world usage; unless the room was perfectly dark, it wasn't the most gorgeous thing to look at, which means those midday sales presentations may not fly if there's a window in the room. In the end, the MPro110 was found to be more of a geek's toy than a proper presentation tool, but who says that's a bad thing?

[ Via: Engadget ]
[ Tag: 3M, mini projector, MiniProjector, MPro110, pico projector, PicoProjector, pocket projector, PocketProjector, projector, review, reviewed ]

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Extended Task manager for Windows

Extended Task Manager shows you everything that the built in windows Task Manager does... and then some. This free utility offers a summary page which shows you al ist of running programs as well as a graph with your CPU usage, Page file usage, disk I/O use and network performance, among other things. And that's just in the first tab. The program has 8 separate tabs that provide detailed information about exactly what your computer is doing while you aren't paying attention (or even when you are).
The performance tab, for example, offers a more detailed look at your CPU, Memory, and Disk I/O usage and history. The graphs are similar to what you'd find in the windows Task Manager, but the Disk I/O graph is a helpful addition. And when you mouse over any point in a graph you get details including which running processes are using the highest percentage of your resources at any given second.

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[ Tag: extended-task-manager, task-manager ]

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