By rss@youtube.com (orphangames) Yet another boardwalk stand for Don Klose's O Gauge Bellevue & Schenectady R.R. Wildwood Harbor Expansion. This stand gives you the real feel of a classic Sno-Cone Stand. With2 Sno-Cone machines, The background looks like a layered icebreg with penquins playing on it. It is backlit with...

NEC has introduced its first LED-backlit desktop display for workers, and that’s the 22-inch MultiSync EA222WMe. It’s NEC’s most environmentally friendly desktop display at the moment, and its reductions in heat, weight, and packaging and being free of mercury, halogen and arsenic c...

By matt buchanan So yes, backlit LED sets with local dimming tend to cost more. Sony's year-old Bravia XBR8 uses tri-color LEDs to improve color accuracy over the most LED sets, which use white ones. Though its production is discontinued, it's still nearly $2200 at 46 inches. However, Toshiba consistently...

By Ross Miller Dell's finally run its finger along the edge and unhinged the last bit of details for its enigmatic, 0.4-inch-thin Adamo XPS. As it turns out those leaked specs weren't entirely off. We're looking at a LED-backlit 13.4-inch, 720p widescreen display, 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo ultra-low voltage...

By Brian Lam Continuing Apple's commitment to the environment, both iMac and Mac mini extend their leadership in green design. iMac and Mac mini meet the new, more stringent Energy Star 5.0 requirements and achieve EPEAT Gold status.*** The new iMac now features LED-backlit displays that are mercury...

Lenovo apparently went under the radar with the Thinkpad SL410 release in China, where it will target SMBs with its 2.53GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 processor that is accompanied by a 14" 1,366 × 768 16:9 LED-backlit display, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 graphics card, 3GB RAM, a 250GB hard dri...

By Thomas Ricker We're expecting an announcement later today but the Alienware m15x has already been leaked in a trio of Dell service documents. Updates include a Core i7 processor, 15.6-inch 1920x1080 LED backlit display, a full 8GB of 1333MHz DDR3 memory, options for a traditional hard disk or SSD drive...

By matt buchanan LEDs (light emitting diodes) are different from say, an old school incandescent bulb, which heats up a filament to generate light, in that they're electroluminescent—electricity passes through a semiconductor and the movement of the electrons just lights it up. Instead of having one...

The U80V's 16:9 aspect ratio LED screen, Chiclet-style keyboard, and touchpad are all backlit; the touchpad is illuminated to trace the user's fingertips. AI light-sensing technology automatically adjusts the backlighting. It uses a thin (9.5 mm) DVD ...

By Pete Mortensen As rumored, Apple updated the MacBook Pro line this morning to use the latest screaming processors up to 2.4 Ghz from Intel and a more powerful GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor. The 15.4-inch machines also use mercury-free LED backlit displays,...

By Brian Lam The LED backlighting on Samsung's 1080p 81-series makes it the best LCD I've ever seen. You've been hearing about such a screen's advantages for months—that it can turn off individual LEDs section to section, moment to moment, keeping blacks blacker and brights brighter—but over the la...

By Brian Lam The previously import-only Vaio TZ was just announced for US shores. That's good news, because its predecessor, the Sony Vaio TX, was one of my favorites subnotes ever. Like the TX, I love the TZ's the LED backlit screen, usable keyboard, build in EVDO Rev. A by Sprint, and nearly 8 hours of bat...

By Cisco Cheng While the overall design remains virtually unchanged, there is one really exciting improvement, and that's the use of LED backlights on the 15-inch Macbook Pros. This makes Apple the first to incorporate LED backlights on a 15-inch display. I've only seen this technology on 12-inch disp...