At the Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week 2008 which will be held in the next few days in Los Angeles, California, AU Optronics (AUO) will unveil the world’s first curved TFT-LCD on glass substrate. They seems to like to be “world’s first” as they will also unveil world’s thinnest ultra-thin 0.63mm TFT-LCD for mobile phone apps.

A team of researchers from the Purdue University have managed to create the first Active Matrix display which consists of transparent transistors made of nanowires. These tiny circuits created the display using OLEDs because they can rival with the brightness of the pixels from a LCD screen.
David Janes, researcher at the Birck Nanotechnology Center of the Purdue University, said that this demonstrates that nanowires transistors can be used in displays and other applications. OLEDs were the best solution because they are already used in cell phone and MP3 displays, as …

Here is an useful concept for your laptop or PC. This is an USB gadget that will display in slideshow-mode basic stuff like pictures, sidebar and other updates. The USB is called “Gadget Display” and it consists of an 2-inch LCD screen and it’s compatible with Windows Service Pack 2 and Vista. For the moment there are no information about its pricing or about its release date, but we expect more soon.

A new 22-inch LCD has been released by Greenhouse in Japan, with a WSXGA+ 1,680 x 1,050 pixels resolution, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, 300cd/m2 brightness and a 2ms response time. The monitor is called GH-JEF223SH-LB and features a HDMI port, lacking DVI. Also there’s a VGA port available, but still DVI is missed by many. The Greenhouse GH-JEF223SH-LB is priced at $438 and should be available as of now.

Yoshiaki Tsuda, President of NEC Display Co., Tokyo, announced that three new monitors will be released on 1st February. The first one is the 17-inch LCD174WXM with 1440 x 800 pixels display, the second is the 19-inch LCD194WXM also with 1440 x 900 pixels display, both are WXGA+ and are wide-format optimized for video playback. The third is the 22-inch LCD224WXM with 1680 x 1050 pixels panel display. The pricing hasn’t been announced so we are waiting for the official unveiling.

 
NEC has unveiled at MacWorld 2008 a new 30-inch wide-screen display for professionals. It’s especially designed for photography, CAD/CAM industries, graphic design, print production and more, having great performances.
The MultiSync LCD3090WQXi has a 4-megapixel resolution ( 2,560×1,600 ), a wide gamut and provides premium color performance. Also it includes 12-bits and sports LUT ( internal look-up cable ), High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection ( HDCP ), supported through the DVI-D connector.
It has a lot of features, like the ColorComp, X-Light™ Pro, AmbiBright, Black Level Adjustement, Digital CableComp, Multi-Directional Controls, Eco-Mode, …