Where We’re Calculating, We Don’t Need No Seven Segments!

There have been many attempts at electronic numerical display technology over the decades since the first incandescent bulb or neon tube flickered into life at the command of a primordial computer, but the lowest common denominator has remained the humble seven segments. Here it might end, but for [Ken …read more

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Displaying Incoming Server Attacks by Giving Server Logs a Scoreboard

In the server world, it’s a foregone conclusion that ports shouldn’t be exposed to the greater Internet if they don’t need to be. There are malicious bots everywhere that will try and randomly access anything connected to a network, and it’s best just to shut them off completely. If you …read more

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A Motorcycle Dashboard Straight from the ECU

Classic motorcycles are the wild west of information displays. Often lacking even basic instrumentation such as a fuel gauge and sometimes even a speedometer, motorcycles have come a long way in instrument cluster design from even 20 years ago. There’s still some room for improvement, though, and luckily a lot …read more

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LG Wing takes flight, extending display real estate with second screen

Sometimes, one touch display on a smartphone just doesn’t seem enough. LG has recognized this and announced the Wing, where the main screen swivels on a hinge to reveal a half-size second one.Continue ReadingCategory: Mobile Technology, TechnologyTags:… Continue reading LG Wing takes flight, extending display real estate with second screen

LG Display serves up travel info on subway train windows

While a transparent TV in your living room might prove to be a stunning talking point, there are more practical applications for see-through display technology. Earlier in the year, LG Display showed its vision for the aircraft cabin of the future, whi… Continue reading LG Display serves up travel info on subway train windows

Playing the Pixelflut

Every hacker gathering needs as many pixels as its hackers can get their hands on. Get a group together and you’ll be blinded by the amount of light on display. (We propose “a blinkenlights” as the taxonomic name for such a group.) At a large gathering, what better way to …read more

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Mechanical Seven-Segment Display Really Sticks Out from the Pack

We’ve been displaying numbers using segmented displays for almost 120 years now, an invention that predates the LEDs that usually power the ubiquitous devices by a half-dozen decades or so. But LEDs are far from the only way to run a seven-segment display — check out this mechanical seven-segment display …read more

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