NISKAYUNA, N.Y.- GE Global Research, the centralized research organization of General Electric (NYSE: GE), and GE Consumer & Industrial, today announced the successful demonstration of the world’s first roll-to-roll manufactured organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting devices. This demonstration is a key step toward making OLEDs and other high performance organic electronics products at dramatically lower costs than what is possible today.

OLEDs are thin, organic materials sandwiched between two electrodes, which illuminate when an electrical charge is applied.
They represent the next evolution in lighting products. Their widespread design capabilities will provide an entirely different way for people to light their homes or businesses.
Moreover, OLEDs have the potential to deliver dramatically improved levels of efficiency and environmental performance, while achieving the same quality of illumination found in traditional products in the marketplace today with less electrical power.

AU Optronics Corp.today announced the world’s first 16:9 Full HD TFT-LCD with 1920 x 1080 resolution for desktop monitor.
The 16:9 wide format display is perfect for desktop computers to run the emerging digital media and full HD contents.
AUO’s new 24-inch LCD panel combines the stylish thin and eco-friendly designs to introduce AUO’s product lines for MoniTV application.
The company’s MoniTV LCD panels adopt the resolutions of Full HD 1080p applicable to both TVs and monitors, and are expected to lead the new trend of widescreen desktop monitor market.

Jefferson Y. Han is directing a very exciting study on Bi-manual, multi-point, and multi-user interactions on a graphical interaction surface.

While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations.

Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for larger interaction scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops.

The Sony Group of Japan, IBM Corp of the US and Toshiba Corp of Japan have completed joint development of the Cell microprocessor, and in preparation for shipment of the first products mounting the new chip before the end of 2005, the thrust of development has now shifted from the chip to software.

At COOL Chips VIII, a society meeting held in Yokohama from April 20 to 22, 2005, Toshiba attracted attention by presenting a paper indicating that the development of Cell software is proceeding smoothly.

As a result of the digital media revolution, many home users are transforming their PCs from business tools and e-mail devices into jukeboxes and entertainment centers.


Consumers now can enjoy a radically different digital lifestyle than was possible only a few years ago, making the storing, sharing and protection of their growing volume of digital content a major priority.

According to Zetera Corporation, the developer of a breakthrough network storage technology, a new kind of storage solution is required that provides home users with a centralized repository for their digital content, enabling them to manage it effectively and protect it in the event of a data disaster.

Zetera believes the answer is the Personal Network Drive.

Toshiba has developed a triple-layer HD DVD-ROM disc with a data capacity of 45GB and enough to record twelve hours of high-def movies on a single disc.

The new disc adds a high-end option to the previous HD DVD-ROM disc lineup that includes the 15GB (single-layer, single-sided) and 30GB (dual-layer, single-sided).
These two discs are already approved and standardized at the DVD Forum.

Toshiba also announced a double-sided, dual-layer hybrid ROM disc comprised of dual-layer HD DVD-ROM side and dual-layer DVD-ROM side.
The hybrid disc can store 30GB of high-definition content on the HD DVD-ROM side and 8.5GB of standard-definition content on the DVD-ROM dual layer side.
More than 84 million DVD players and recorders were produced worldwide in 2004 alone.
The standard definition content of the new hybrid discs can be replayed on these platforms, while their owners will also be able to enjoy high-definition content from the same source when they purchase HD DVD players in the future. The new disc further prepares the way for a smooth transition from DVD to HD DVD.

Matrix Unveils Two Breakthrough Technologies, Segmented Wordline And Hybrid Scaling


Matrix Semiconductor announced the world’s smallest one-gigabit silicon memory at 31 square millimeters, the development of which was based on two technology breakthroughs that extend Matrix’s leadership role in three-dimensional semiconductor design: Hybrid Scaling and the Segmented Wordline architecture.

Through the use of these two innovations, Matrix was able to double Matrix® 3-D Memory’s (3DM) bit capacity, using the same area of silicon, in less than one year. Matrix will continue to double density with each new version of its 3-D memory for years to come, providing high capacities at the lowest absolute silicon cost.

Unique to a 3-D integrated circuit, Hybrid Scaling is the combination of different process geometries within the layers of a 3-D circuit. This approach takes Matrix 3DM’s leading memory densities even further than predicted by Moore’s Law.

Pegasus announced that InPhase Technologies demonstrated its Tapestry holographic storage device with Pegasus Microsoft Windows drivers at the NAB show.

InveStore has provided archive data protection with write-once secure optical drives and libraries as a necessary part of an archive strategy to ensure compliance with many governmental regulations for more than 15 years. Keeping up with technology, Pegasus now supports the emerging line of holographic storage devices from InPhase Technologies.

EtherTouch™ 3D e-Sensing is an advanced capacitive sensing technology engineered to usher in the next generation of human interactivity with machines and the built environment.

This revolutionary technology replaces the electronic, mechanical and pressure electrical functions of current input and human interface devices.

Traditional devices such as the computer mouse, touch screens, key pads, and other tactile input devices will literally be replaced with the wave of a finger.

More advanced and costly input technologies such as touch screens and quadrant IR sensing will find themselves replaced as this technology makes its way through the industry.

In addition, the industrial applications for the technology are wide and varied, from security, process monitoring, proximity, dielectric measurements, level, flow, pressure and instrumentation applications to name a few.

IBM has begun work on new technologies designed to boost the capacity of tape storage devices by 250 times.

Using "nanopatterning" techniques derived from the company's microprocessor division, researchers say they expect to one day build cartridges that can store as much as 100T bytes of data.