Hitting the Books: The Second Kind of Impossible

Welcome, dear readers, to Engadget's new series, Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on s...

Light-based neural network could lead to super-fast AI

It's one thing to create computers that behave like brains, but it's something else to make them perform as well as brains. Conventional circuitry can only operate so quickly as part of a neural network, even if it's sometimes much more powerful tha...

Princeton’s Upcoming PTFBJA-27W 27-Inch Full HD Monitor

Princeton PTFBJA-27W

Princeton has showed off another one of its upcoming 27-inch Full HD monitor, the PTFBJA-27W. Adopting an ADS panel, this new 27-inch LED-backlight non-glare monitor supports a native resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and provides 1000:1 contrast ratio (5,000,000:1 DCR), 300 cd/m2 brightness, 6ms response time (overdrive) and 178/178 degree viewing angles.

Utilizing the ‘Blue Light reduction function’ for reducing eyestrain in long hours of work, the PTFBJA-27W comes equipped with an anti-theft security lock slot and built-in stereo speakers (2Wx2), and provides 1x D-Sub, 1x DVI-D and 1x HDMI input ports.

The Princeton PTFBJA-27W will hit the market from June 17th for 29,800 Yen (about $277). [Product Page]

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Terahertz laser tech could scan for bombs at airports

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ICYMI: Underwater robot snake, Earth’s ocean saving and more

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