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One of the best deals going in flat panel televisions has been from Vizio. Last year, I picked up one of their 50-inch plasma sets (1366×768 resolution) at Costco for around two grand, and have been duly impressed by the price-to-performance value on these sets…

For the ultimate in geek chic, check out these LCD watches from Nooka.

The Nooka Zub Zen 20 series of watches features a brightly colored rubber casing surrounding an deconstructed liquid crystal display of hours, minutes and seconds in bar-graph format. The watches come in six colors: blue, black, orange, yellow, red and white and run $125 USD each.

Sony has begun shipping their new 46-inch BRAVIA XBR LCD Flat Panel HDTV.

The Sony KDL-46XBR3 features all the bells and whistles you’d expect from a top-notch display. The panel features full 1080p (1920×1080) native resolution and three 1080p HDMI inputs (two on the back, one on the front)…

The new Epson EMP-TW1000 is a front projector which features a native 1080p (1920×1080) resolution LCD panel.

The projector features HDMI 1.3 inputs for digital signals, and supports true 1080p inputs. In addition Epson’s new color engine is said to produce a color gamut that’s 115% broader than NTSC standards…

GPS navigation devices for your car keep getting better, faster and cheaper, and the new Navman F20 keeps up that tradition.

The new navigation device comes pre-loaded with detailed US street maps (versions available for other countries, too) and a very clean new user interface…

This new LCD system from Sharp Electronics allows you to display different images on the screen when viewed off axis.

Sharp’s European laboratory has developed a system that takes advantage of a concept called the “parallax barrier,” which limits what light can be seen along specific angles. This principal has been used before in the development of Sharp’s 3D LCD panels…

Back in the day, LCD monitors were known for their flicker and image tearing issues as a result of abysmally slow response times. Decent quality gaming and television was a rarity on LCD screens. Well how times have changed…

Hyundai has now shown off their new S90D 19-inch LCD TFT monitor which claims an astounding 1 millisecond seponse time…

Samsung showed of their new LE40M91 LCD flat panel at the IFA conference in Berlin this week.

The new set features a high-powered LED backlight, said to boost color gamut to 146% and the LCD panel claims a 10,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, which is extremely good for an LCD panel…