Peerless Industries ships its new SmartMount 600 series of flat and tilt wall mounts. The open wall plate architecture delivers 6” of vertical space, and up to 32.62” of horizontal space with plenty of room for cables, cords and electrical gang boxes to be placed within that space. They have 8” of horizontal adjustability, and use an easy-glide ramp to ensure the brackets are attached to the mount. You just hang the screen on the wall plate and listen for the audible click to tell you when the screen is set in place.

Go Peerless SmartMount 600

At less than the width of a 20-cent Euro coin, Chief's new Thinstall Series incorporates exclusive design features from Chief, like GlideLock™ tool-less latching, to achieve faster installation in the field.

Designed as a one-piece custom mount, the new Thinstall Series includes other installer-friendly features such as sturdy steel construction, lateral shift, an open wall plate design for easy electrical placement and 79.5 kg weight capacity.

The first mount offered in the Thinstall Series, PSMT2015, is designed for Hitachi's new 1.5™ UltraThin HDTVs. Complementing the ultra low-profile of this TV, the PSMT2015 has a depth of only 0.49", measuring in at one-third of the UltraThin flat panels it supports.

The Thinstall Series' PSMT2015 will ship across Europe as of May 2008. Others will foloow.

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Brother Industries prototypes a wearable display that fits like a pair of eyeglasses and bounces light into the retina to create the sensation of viewing a floating image.

The company sees this display being used in various applications (for example, in a factory to view a manual while working on machinery). Brother hopes to have a commercial version ready in fiscal 2010.

The display device consists of a light-generating unit and a plastic panel that are fitted next to the left eye on an eyeglass frame. There is no lens, and instead the light beam is simply reflected off the panel into the retina.

Go Brother Floats a “RID”

At Display 2008 in Japan, Sony showed a 3.5” OLED with an ultra-thin 0.2mm profile and 320x220 pixel resolution.


 

Sony also showed a new version of the world's first mass-produced OLED TV, its 11-inch XEL-1. The display panel has a new TFT substrate and less glass, so it can reduce size (0.3mm thick vs current
1.4mm) and keep the same resolution (960x540 pixels).

Go Sony XEL-1