Word: lcd
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...school. Now robots are here to help. PEBBLES (Providing Education by Bringing Learning Environments to Students) have rolled into five U.S. pediatric centers --in Cleveland, Ohio; Baltimore, Md.; New Haven, Conn.; Miami; and Chicago. The robots, created by Toronto-based Telbotics, work in pairs. One with a 15-in. LCD screen for a face goes to school in the absent child's place. The other remains in the hospital, transmitting an image of the child's face to the classroom. Using a video-game-style controller, the child can direct the school robot to raise its hand...
...have doubled in three years in parts of central Shanghai. Dusty villas in the fashionable French Concession are selling for millions of dollars, even if they have rotting floorboards and cracking foundations. In December a 1,110-sq-m penthouse complete with an indoor pool and a 21-inch LCD TV in the bathroom made headlines when it sold for a record $4.3 million. Just the right to tour the lavish apartment in Shimao Riviera Garden cost $600 per VIP ticket...
Digital displays have been fastened to everything from curling irons to space heaters--with mixed results. We found the LCD screen on Rival's prototype Recipe Smart-Pot (a high-tech Crock-Pot with 200 built-in recipes) too small to scan entire recipes at a glance. By contrast, the $100 Electronic Weight Control System from Concord Technologies was handy and easy on the eyes; the bathroom scale stores the weights of a family of four for as long as a year and comes with a wireless remote that you can attach to the wall at eye level...
...largest manufacturer of plasma screens, spent $40 million in its plasma business this year, and next year plans to double that. Plasma "is much more ready for the market at this moment, especially in large sizes," says Wang Chien-erh, a vice-president at market research firm DisplaySearch. "lcd TV makers are trying to catch up." How successful they'll be "depends on how much and how quickly they improve quality...
...manufacturers will survive the shift to flat-screen technology. The TV business is being revolutionized, and that's "a great thing for our industry," says Bruce Berkoff, an executive vice-president at LG.Philips lcd. But profit margins are getting thinner in the push to lower prices. Ultimately, "very few players will benefit," Berkoff says. For consumers lusting after the electronics industry's hottest product, though, the picture can only get bigger and brighter...