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Read our full CES 2008 coverage of the Las Vegas trade showMobile projectors are coming into focus following an agreement between 3M and Himax Technologies. The specialists in optics technology and semiconductor systems for flat panel displays have announced they are combining proprietary technologies for a new mobile system.

3M is demonstrating its mobile projection system, including the…

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The display industry has an interesting new connectivity method that uses network display technology to connect monitors to PCs, network displays, writes Jason Slaughter of DisplayLink.Since the development of the PC, graphics cards with VGA-like connectors have been used as the primary means of connecting displays to host computers. Now the display…

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Guest columnist Tim Haas, product marketing manager for e-mech at Avnet Abacus says that improvements in LED lighting solutions are imposing secondary challenges in thermal management which are just as fundamental.Heat and light are often synonymous. Although LED lighting creates more light and less heat with the available energy, it still generates a proportion of heat – quite a…

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The industry is ready for the year of the diode, writes Doug Bailey, v-p marketing at Power IntegrationsThe emergence of solid state lighting has been discussed in the technical media, at trade shows and in labs for almost a decade. Many of the initial technical challenges have been solved – driving LEDs efficiently, heat management in retrofit LED bulb designs and circuit strategies to…