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...design and function that fits perfectly into the emerging digital home. Last year LG was the world's largest seller of mobile phones operating on the CDMA standard (a type of mobile-phone technology). It makes dazzling flat-screen televisions and other leading-edge gadgets. LG.Philips LCD, a joint venture formed in 1999 with Royal Philips Electronics, became the world's biggest maker of the LCD panels used in flat-screen TVs and monitors in 2003, with 22% of the global market. The unit's operating profit soared 307% last year, to $935 million...
Nearly 30 years ago, a Texan named Vernon Reed made a necklace with a liquid-crystal display at the center. By 1990, after a series of one-off LCD jewelry creations, he quit the business. "My jeweler peers did not understand what I was up to, and computer artists were put off by the whole notion of jewelry," he said...
Nokia is also introducing a slightly more traditional device, a digital picture frame. The world has seen its fair share of connected LCD frames, from the dial-up-modem-equipped Ceiva to the wi-fi-ready Wallflower. Nokia's SU-4 Image Frame ($239) simplifies the process, with the same infrared connectivity found in the Imagewear line. The SU-7, due later this year, will be equipped with a cell phone. For $399--plus the cost of the service--you can set one up and send pictures to it via multimedia messaging. Of course, that's only if the frame...
...megapixel digital camera with 3X optical zoom. The innards were conceived mainly by Olympus' brain trust. (Its sleek body is less than 1 in. thick, thanks to a periscope-style zoom lens, and though measuring only 3.7 in. across, it still manages to sport a spacious 2.5-in. LCD screen.) In an automotive homage, the company worked with Ferrari designers to achieve a high-gloss red finish that's identical to the one on their cars. Your camera, however, won't come with a pit crew...
...memory. And it isn't the first miniature MP3 player. But it is the first USB gadget sold in the U.S. with a video camera, still camera and MP3 player all inside a single unit about the size of a breakfast sausage. There's even a tiny LCD screen on the back for viewing images...