jfruh (300774) writes Korean electronics manufacturer LG has shown off experimental see-through, l roll-up displays, paper thin and flexible and capable of letting through about 30% of the light that strikes it. The company is eager to sell the concept and promises it’ll be arriving soon, though they’ve shown of similar (though less capable) technology over the past few years and have yet to bring any products to market. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Coming Soon(ish) From LG: Transparent, Rollup Display
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MojoKid (1002251) writes “Last year, Intel launched two new processor families based on the Haswell and Ivy Bridge-E based Core i7 architecture. Both chips were just incremental updates over their predecessors. Haswell may have delivered impressive gains in mobile, but it failed to impress on the desktop where it was only slightly faster than the chip it replaced. Enthusiasts weren’t terribly excited about either core but Intel is hoping its new Devil’s Canyon CPU, which launches today, will change that. The new chip is the Core i7-4790K and it packs several new features that should appeal to the enthusiast and overclocking markets. First, Intel has changed the thermal interface material from the paste it used in the last generation over to a new Next Generation Polymer Thermal Interface Material, or as Intel calls it, “NGPTIM.” Moving Haswell’s voltage regulator on-die proved to be a significant problem for overclockers since it caused dramatic heat buildup that was only exacerbated by higher clock speeds. Overclockers reported that removing Haswell’s lid could boost clock speeds by several hundred MHz. The other tweak to the Haswell core is a great many additional capacitors, which have been integrated to smooth power delivery at higher currents. This new chip gives Haswell a nice lift. If the overclocking headroom delivers on top of that, enthusiasts might be able to hit 4.7-4.8GHz on standard cooling.” Read more of this story at Slashdot. 
An anonymous reader writes “After the HD revolution, display manufacturers rolled out gimmick after gimmick to try to recapture that burst of purchasing (3-D, curved displays, ‘Smart’ features, form factor tweaks, etc). Now, we’re finally seeing an improvement that might actually be useful: 4K displays are starting to drop into a reasonable price range. Tech Report reviews a 28″ model from Asus that runs $650. They say, ‘Unlike almost every other 4K display on the market, the PB287Q is capable of treating that grid as a single, coherent surface. … Running games at 4K requires tons of GPU horsepower, yet dual-tile displays don’t support simple scaling. As a result, you can’t drop back to obvious subset resolutions like 2560×1440 or 1920×1080 in order to keep frame rendering times low. … And single-tile 4K at 30Hz stinks worse, especially for gaming. The PB287Q solves almost all of those problems.’ They add that the monitor’s firmware is not great, and while most options you want are available, they often require digging through menus to set up. The review ends up recommending the monitor, but notes that, more importantly, its capabilities signify ‘the promise of better things coming soon.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot. 
