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The Samsung LCD 458 series combines hospital-related features to offer complete entertainment and education solutions, which improve sustainability, operational efficiency and patient satisfaction.

The 32-inch and 26-inch LCD televisions feature a Wide Color Enhancer technology and a full high-definition (HD) display.

The LCD televisions also include bottom firing speakers and Dolby Digital Plus for ultimate HD experience. The LCD TVs are integrated with.

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Buying a laptop has become quite a daunting task these days. Most notebooks look similar, have almost the same specs and have only a minor price difference. Then there is also after sales service that you need to keep in mind before zeroing in on a notebook.

In a poll that we conducted recently we asked you about your preferences, and well, these are the results. It was time for us to step out of our bat cave and into your favorite malls to check out what's hot and what's buzzing in the laptop segment. Here are our picks from the latest laptops available this season.

Netbooks - Netbooks these days are so similarly configured and priced that it will surely make the prospective buyer pull his/her hair out while deciding. Other than the typical Dell Inspiron Mini 10, which we like, there are some other decent alternatives if you're worried about its heating issue we had mentioned about.

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So you’ve been watching CSI on TV and marveled at the Computer Data Recovery boffins working their magic. You may be thinking to yourself is it really possible to get data back from a laptop hard disk or usb drive after it has been through infernos, floods, and then run over by a truck afterwards? Well as unbelievable as it sounds, the answer is in most cases, yes! I’ll provide some info below on how the real life experts actually go about this stuff.

So what exactly is data recovery anyway? Well basically when we need to salvage as much data as we can from inaccessible storage systems such as hard drives, usb pen drives, tapes, Cd’s, etc. These can be damaged due to electrostatic shocks, liquid spills, natural disaster damage, system corruption, or just plain failed for no discernible reason. In some cases as on CSI and other TV shows, this can also be termed computer forensics.

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Whatever happened to rear projection TV? Did it stop being trendy because it was expensive and used up too much space in the home?

Well Mitsubishi has always backed the technology and this week, in the US, came out with a 75 inch and 82 inch top of the range.

Rear Projection TV has recently been trying to make a comeback on the back of the “green” culture and low power usage.

The Mitsubishi device is available today and is 3D ready and uses the company’s LaserVue technology, which has been established for some years, though of late has been losing market share to slim, flat LCD TVs.

The L75-A91 and the 82 inch DLP Home Cinema TV both come with what the company calls Cinema Color mode, which sounds like.

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Samsung is once again the top liquid crystal display TV manufacturer in the U.S. market, after shipping 1.1 million LCD TVs during Q1. Samsung’s sales actually decreased by one-third since Q4, but the rest of the LCD TV market suffered a 36 percent drop at the end of 2009.

The company overtook Vizio as the No. 1 LCD TV maker in the U.S. market, with Vizio’s overall market control dropping from 18.5% in Q4 down to 16.7 percent in Q1.The year 2010 marks a major transition period for the U.S. LCD-TV market, when consumers increasingly are gravitating toward sets with more advanced features,” said Riddhi Patel, iSuppli’s principal TV analyst, in a statement.  “”With Samsung at the forefront of trends including LED backlighting and 3D, the company has been able to outperform the market and its closest competitors.”

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Sometimes it’s nice not to have all of your technology on display.  I’m a big one that I really don’t want to be able to see the TV all the time in my bedroom, but I like having one in there for rare occasions when I want to lay down and watch TV.  Thankfully one designer has created a creative way to hide your small flat panel TV.  Instead of stashing it in an armoire, you could hide it inside of this Flash Lamp.

Normally it’ll look like just a chunky lamp, with a working light and everything.  Then it can easily transform to reveal your LCD TV.  It can hide one of up to 23 inches in size.  Then after you’re finished it just slides back into place and can be used as a regular lamp.  This is a design by Denis Santachiara done for Roche Bobois.  Sadly, there isn’t much information on how to purchase it, but you could always contact the designer to see if it is available for purchase.

Mobile enthusiasts still in the spin of the Nokia N8 phone that hit India recently may want to gape through this one. Well, Nokia gives the Nokia X3 and X6 phones a sibling with its latest addition to the X series portfolio. Nokia announces the new X2 phone that takes more than a little inspiration from its older brethren.

Adorning a candy bar form factor, this new phone boasts of a 2.2-inch QVGA screen. Sizing it up at just 13mm in thickness, the phone weighs around 81g. Infused with dual speakers, the handset shows off dedicated music keys as well. FM stereo along with support for up to 16GB of storage through microSD card enhance the mobile music capabilities of this device.

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This is still a rumor at this point, but many folks are speculating that the iPad Camera Connection Kit might be able to allow USB audio output, since it’s offering you a USB port anyways. If that’s true, it would be rather interesting.

As you might even be able to hook up some useful devices to the iPad. Another possible use would be if you were able to charge your USB devices from it, such as your Mifi. Of course, that sounds a little bit like wishful thinking, but when you take into account a Mifi has about 4-6 hours of battery life and the iPad has 10 hours, sharing might actually be caring, wouldn’t you think?

Portability is always an important factor when it comes to laptops, after all, if you’re not going to lug it around town, you might as well get a desktop computer. This folding laptop concept on the iWEB 2.0 certainly looks promising. With this design, you can have a small display, keeping the size of the laptop down, and still have a full-sized keyboard to work it. Seems practical, doesn’t it?

 In Europe last night it was revealed that LG's flagship 3D TV, which it showed off at CES has been pulled with retailers told that it will not be launched. The LG LD360 3D LED TV was touted at CES as a 47-inch LCD TV that had 3D, Skype and Internet TV is now not going to be launched with the Company refusing to say what will replace it. Some analysts are tipping that LG will move to a 50" model as their entry level 3D TV offering with small models set to be launched as the market grows.

In Australia LG executives have refused to comment about their offering however Stan Bilinski who has recently taken over as product marketing manager for all of LG Australia's consumer electronics division said "We are currently conducting an extensive research study and when we have that we will decide on our TV line up". At CES LG was promoting the LD 360 as their 3G flagship model "the start of a new wave of TVs and one of the biggest trends in TV in the coming years". They said that their new 3D TV would be launched in April 2010.