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LED Display Technology Gets a Twist 08.21.09 Related Links U.S. researchers said on Thursday they have found a way to make Hands-On Video: large-scale flexible display screens that can be stretched to fit the Samsung's Dual-LCD contours of a bus yet are transparent enough so riders can see out Cameras windows. Samsung Plasma Beats Larger LCD in 2 Comments Power LCDs Gained Share Among HDTVs During By Reuters Holidays CHICAGO - U.S. researchers said on Thursday they have found a way to Sony D-SLRs Talk to make large-scale flexible display screens that can be stretched to fit the HDTVs, Add Tilt LCDs contours of a bus yet are transparent enough so riders can see out windows.

The thin, light screens might be used to make brake light indicators that follow the contours of a car, or health monitors or imaging devices that wrap around a patient like a blanket, said John Rogers of the University of Illinois news at Urbana-Champaign, whose study appears in the journal Science. 8.28.2009 He said the large display screens combine the scale and durability of light- HP HDX16t Iomega Ships Four-Drive NAS for SMBs emitting diodes, or LED technology, used to make flat, lighted billboards, The HP HDX16t is the sexiest 16-inch with the flexibility of screens made using organic—carbon-containing— 8.28.2009 media center on the market, Industry Criticizes Apple's materials. assuming you can live with the limited Anti-Malware Efforts battery options. "If you look at these giant billboard displays along the road side, those are 8.28.2009 made out of inorganic light emitting diodes (LEDs). Our feeling is those Fed Chairman Bernanke a systems are quite impressive," Rogers said in a telephone interview. Victim of ID Theft

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