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Apple adds more colour to its iPod screens

News Apple has switched to colour screens for all its standard iPods and has updated its iTunes software to let people more easily download podcasts. The company released a new 20GB iPod U2 Special Edition with a colour screen as well.

29 June 2005, 11:05

News.blog: Sony's techno-colour Vaio CR series

News The CR series is no different, featuring a case that is saturated with colour, right down to the touchpad. Forget Roy G Biv -- the rainbow according to Sony includes such colours as sangria, cosmopolitan, dove and indigo.

12 June 2007, 10:16

HP to introduce colour iPods for spring

News Hewlett-Packard got its iPods back in tune on Tuesday, introducing colour screen models that match Apple Computer's current line. HP said it will offer a 30GB photo iPod for $349 and a 60GB version for $449, matching the prices Apple charges for...

18 April 2005, 19:13

Reinventing the colour TV

News Mitsubishi and others are promoting a technical standard that's expected to greatly expand the colour palette on televisions. The standard -- elegantly called xvYCC -- is meant to update the televised colour spectrum for the digital age.

1 December 2006, 10:12

Microsoft taps Canon to bring Vista into colour

News As part of its effort to boost the graphics abilities in Windows Vista, Microsoft is expected to announce that it has partnered with Canon to include an all-new colour-matching system as part of the new operating system.

14 September 2005, 10:33

Photos: Apple breathes colour into iPod Shuffles

News On Tuesday, Apple began offering its smallest iPod, the 1GB Shuffle, in a choice of five colours, including the original silver. They are available to buy now from Apple's online store, at £55 each. The Shuffle's tiny size has proven convenient for...

31 January 2007, 10:32

Japanese PlayStation 3 turns silver

News Japanese PlayStation 3s will soon be going silver -- and the metallic colour doesn't come as a major surprise following similar variants for the slimline PlayStation 2, original PS2 and PlayStation Portable.

Tags: silver, colour, playstation, controller

6 February 2008, 9:17

Safari introduces better browser colours

News Safari may not be rewriting the rules for Web browsing on Windows just yet, but it's leading the way with one significant change: photographs with better colour. Microsoft wouldn't comment on future colour-support plans for this story, but the...

20 June 2007, 10:57

Photos: Displays of the future

News The water is attracted to the surface, forcing the oil to the side and making the pixel take on the colour of the lower surface of the pixel, which is white in this case. This small screen -- about 50 by 50mm -- from Liquavista can display clock...

8 June 2006, 12:02

Apple store buzzes with nano fever

News The iPod nano, unveiled this week as Apple's replacement for the popular iPod Mini, is much smaller than its predecessor, has a colour screen that can display photos and uses flash memory rather than a bulkier hard drive.

12 September 2005, 10:47

Pioneer unveils revamped plasma tech

News New colour-filter technology and cell structure have allowed for "significantly deeper black levels," said Russ Johnston, senior vice president of marketing for Pioneer USA, who called it "game-changing technology".

10 May 2007, 11:44

BT to save iconic red phone boxes for £1

News Back in June BT warned that more public call boxes would have to close as usage continues to slide -- though at the time a spokesman told CNET UK's sister site silicon.com that he could not specify the number of red phone boxes under threat...

Tags: cent, scheme, colour, wish

1 September 2008, 11:06

$100 wind-up laptop due in late 2006

News The case colour is a combination of lime green and yellow. We wanted to use colour because it's a message of playfulness. The proposed design of the machines calls for a 500MHz processor, 1GB of memory and a unique dual-mode display that can be...

18 November 2005, 8:38

Do more megapixels mean better photos?

News The basic concern is that smaller pixels on camera sensors means less sensitivity to light, leading to image noise such as off-colour speckles or rough edges, worse performance in dim conditions, and the loss of finer tonal gradations, such as the...

Tags: pixel, digital cameras, resource, digital camera

8 February 2007, 8:00

New screen tech fuses oil with water

News The pixel, which has a light source behind it, then projects the colour of the dyed oil out. In hydrophilic mode, the water draws toward the surface, shoving the dyed oil to the side, changing the colour projecting from the pixel.

20 April 2006, 10:14