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Gizmo

30 May 2007

Bendy TV screens just got a little bendier with the launch by Sony of a prototype full-colour organic LED display. The 160-by-120-pixel 6.3-centimetre screen is made of thin sheets of plastic and metal, allowing it to bend almost into a semicircle while displaying an image. As it uses light-emitting diodes it does not need backlighting, unlike LCD screens.

The computer mouse is under threat from the computer ring. Created by a team of students at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, the finger ring emits ultrasonic pulses that are picked up by five receivers on a computer monitor. Based on…

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