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Future of Screen Technology
http://toptentechupdate.blogspot.com/
This is the result of TAT’s Open Innovation experiment. It is an experience video showing the future of screen technology with stretchable screens, transparent screens and e-ink displays, to name a few.

Samsung has developed a touch-enabled transparent AMOLEDs, and has a very nice demo showing it off. Sadly we do not have any technical details about this display, or when Samsung expects to commercialize it…

We have some more information and a nice video about AUO’s 2.4″ transparent touch AMOLED display. The resolution of the panel is 240×320, and it’s a “dual-emission” structure. It’s got 45% transparency, 200 cd/m2 brightness on the bottom, and 100 cd/m2 on the top. The contrast is better than 20,000:1. The response time is less than 0.01ms. AUO hopes to have this as an actual product in 2011, and are also working on a 7″ version.

A short clip by CBS showing the ‘TV of the future’ – OLEDs. Some nice new footage of OLED displays and TVs, flexible and transparent OLEDs, as well as an interview with Janice Mahone from Universal Display.

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Google changes search algorithm to favor large publishers over small-time blogs and websites last Friday in a move that shifted $1 billion in annual revenue to members of the Online Publishers Association (OPA).

The Online Publishers Association, an insider organization representing large websites and magazines, applied pressure on Google to adjust its search algorithm in favor of “quality” content as the industry continues to suffer declining subscription revenue.

“A private understanding was reached between the OPA and Google,” an office assistant with e-mail evidence told Politically Illustrated. “The organization is responsible for coordinating legal and legislative matters that impact our members, and one of the issues was applying pressure to Google to get them to adjust their search algorithm to favor our members.”

The e-mail correspondence provided to Politically Illustrated show the OPA going back-and-forth with Google over upcoming changes to the company’s search algorithm.

“We don’t care,” began an email from a top-level staffer at the OPA. “The algorithm needs to consider the quality of content because websites, including those hosted on Blogger, are stealing our stories – they’re simply re-writing them from websites produced by our members.”

Last month, Google went ahead and adjusted the algorithm after the e-mail correspondence.

The change hurt several hundred websites, including popular Cult of Mac.

“Cult of Mac has been downgraded by the changes Google has made to its algorithm to rerank content farms like Demand Media,” Leander Kahney, who is the owner of Cult for Mac, wrote on his website. “We’re not alone. Also affected is the British Medial Journal, PR Newswire, and one of the earliest online communities, The Well.”

Cult for Mac, PR Newswire, The British Medial Journal, and The Well are not current members of the Online Publishers Association.

“I’m pissed because we’ve worked our asses off over the last two years to make this a successful site. Cult of Mac is an independently owned small business. We’re a startup. We have a small but talented team, and I’m the only full timer. We’re busting our chops to produce high-quality, original content on a shoestring budget.”

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Cambodia-by-Moonlight/1942349

The MoonLight was designed by team Lumen. During the design phase, the design team lived in the Cambodian rural countryside for 4 months and used an participatory approach to develop the product. Rural people need a portable lamp. Different rooms are to be lit during the evening hours, and most consumers cannot afford more than one lamp. Furthermore, a dimmed light during the entire night was needed, to orientate in the dark and to feel safe at night. The rural households selected the final design from 4 concepts.

http://www.kamworks.com/products/moonlight.html