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A joint venture between Microsoft Corp. and Harrah's Entertainment Inc. brought into the world 6 cool casino tables with 30 inch flat screens. These screens are equipped with Microsoft Surface technology and enable patrons to watch streaming videos, play touch-screen games and a lot more. A cool program called Flirt is available with the table that allows users to chat with other members on other tables. users can also get information on various restaurants, shows and other facilities. The table uses a camera that is located behind the screen and detects the hand movements of the patrons as they explore the wonders of it

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How about this for a panel in your car. The brilliance of night vision and person recognition and many other features is bundled up into the Toyota Crown Hybrid. The screen supports resolutions of up to 1280 x 480 and measures 12.3 inches. It’s not just the faint hearted who can enjoy this one. It can operate between temperatures ranging from -30 - 85 degrees Celsius. The colors of the meters can also be changed and customized according to the color of your seat covers or your dashboard or to just about any color you would like it to be.

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The new LCD display screens from Samsung are excellently made with a unique touch of brilliance that has won the company top honors for the favorite LCD category in the USA. The XL24 and the XL30 seen here are no different from those models that triggered such a response from the US consumers. In fact these seem to be even better and classier in function. Both these models sport LED Backlights for overall ambience and are available in Korea.

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One can easily make a Santa list of all the gizmos that have been downsized to fit into our pockets these days. ExPlay spreads the epidemic of smart shrinking to projectors. And here is proof of all their efforts. This projector is small, really small. It can easily be carried along with you in your pocket and doesn't need to be carried around like an expensive piece of technology like (most other projectors). The images generated from this are almost 20 times larger than the projector itself.

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I like the idea of having a fantastic gadget packed bathroom with everything from an iPod to PMPs to LCD screens. Imagine watching a flick while bathing. So here's a brilliant 17 inch screen for your bathroom pleasures and guess what, it also comes with a 176-degrees horizontal and vertical viewing angle. There's also an iPod docking station available with it.

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Here's something worth drooling for. That too when these beauties flow in from Korea, you can be well assured of quality mixed with style. The A5500DS is a 22 inch screen from Alphascan, a Korean screen maker. It comes with support for resolutions of up to 1680 x 1050 pixels. Along with an amazing 3000:1 contrast ration, it has good brightness control at 330 cd/meter square. With a response time of five milliseconds, one can expect brilliant image streaming from the A5500DS. It is also equipped with a 3W speaker and DVI cables.

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NEC has yet another brilliant display in the offering. This time it comes with Ambix digital/analog connectivity and a cool ergonomic stand. Being Windows Vista certified is an additional bonus for users of the OS to be considering the purchase this display. The ergonomic stand is pretty cool and comes with adjustable height, swivel and tilt. Thanks to the XtraView wide-angle technology, gaming and multimedia can be delightful on this one. The design and looks of the screen are dashing no doubt. There’s also an optional speaker attachment that you can go for.

If magnification is your basic requirement and the magnifying glass isn’t a modern enough concept then go in for the Jakks EyeClops Bionic Eye. It comes with an observation dish and tube to study liquids, various insects or grandma’s burnt cookies more closely. There’s a helpful base for hands-free use. The eye magnifies the viewed object by 200x and displays it on a connected monitor.

If your wife or mum is a bickering you with all the work mounting on her head, then this may be a perfect gift to not only cheer her up but also to reduce the relentless grumbles. The Microwave Television is probably among the first kitchen appliances that come equipped with an LCD screen. The Holland Electro Wave TV showed up for the first time at IFA. It is equipped with a 10.2” LCD screen. It functions pretty well as a microwave with nine automatic cooking programs. The DVD player can support DVD, DIVX, SVCD, VCD, DVCD, CD, HDCD, MP3, MP4, Picture-CD, CD-R and CD-RW. There’s also a multi-language support, multi-camera angle and support for SD, MMC, MS CARD and USB. The microwave has a good 23 liter volume.

The Sanyo PLV-Z2000 LCD Projector is one of its kinds. A great job by the manufacturers as they have pulled out a rather brilliant projector that provides a contrast ratio of 15000:1. The lens shifting function has also been revamped to make it more precise and easier to adjust. You can enjoy a HD resolution of up to 1,920 x 1,080. there’s also a 3D color management module stuffed into this one so that it makes for perfect eye candy. The various inputs include a couple of HDMI 1.3 ports, another couple of component inputs as well as composite and S-Video inputs. From a distance of 10 to 20 feet, you can expect images magnified to about 100” (diagonally).

The Samsung 46 inch LN46F81BD, 40 inch LN40F81BD and the 52 inch LN52F81BD screens are all 120Hz TVs. They come dressed in a brilliant black frame that can hold eight speakers with surround sound and are all HDTVs. These seem to be likely candidates in the race for the ultimate HDTV LCD screens. With an additional impetus in the form of the thrilling surround sound output that comes with it, the displays provide superior video quality and extremely fascinating models beside them. Sadly, they do not come along with the pack. However, the 25,000:1 contrast ratio

The 37 inch LCD TV we have here has a built in HDTV tuner as well as a couple of 10W inbuilt speakers that can blow your mind away. With a 1000:1 contrast ratio and 550 cd/m² brightness, you can well expect some pretty good pictures from this one and this is aided by a 3D Y/C digital comb filter. No one complains when you have a screen that can fish out resolutions of up to 1366 x 768 pixels. The different inputs include 1 S-video, 2 component video, 2 A/V, HDMI, 1 composite A/V, 1 PC and 1 RF.

The Gigantor is a digital photo frame that’s come out of the box of tiny, small screened photo frames of this kind. It provides an impressive 1024 x 768 pixels resolution and scales fifteen inches. It supports eight different media formats and also connects (as most digital card readers do) to your PC via USB. Pretty amazingly, the Gigantor is capable of playing certain video files as well and also MP3. Thanks to the in-built speaker. And that’s not all. For all the lazier ones who cannot get off their seats to flick and image or switch on a video, there’s also an IR remote that comes with the frame.

With tones of goodies all packed in it, Sony hands out the very covetable GV-HD700E Walkman. The most stunning and basic feature of it is that it supports HDV 1080i video and miniDV tapes as well. The walkman effortlessly entertains you with superior HD video. The delicious 800 x 480 resolution available with the seven inch display screen seems insatiably made to kill. You can also enjoy i.link and HDMI Out interfaces with the GV-HD700E.

Nikko has started accepting pre-orders of their rendition of the R2 – D2 DVD Star Wars robot. Just that this one has a full DVD player and a LCD projector to go with it. It gives me creeps that articles about robots are more frequent on gizmodude these days. The projector can deliver images up to the size of 80 inches in size and with resolutions of 800x600 pixels. Other features include a 1,200 ANSI lumen brightness and contrast ratio of 500:1. Other features include an iPod docking system, 20W stereo speakers, headphone jack, VGA output port, memory card slots and a Falcon remote control.