First off, from TheInquirer,
Casio Triples EL Display Brightness. Is it an 'OLED,' 'OEL,' or 'LEP?' Who knows... and who cares, if it's cheap, solid-state, and performs? One more step towards... something that works.
More interestingly (and further off),
researchers are working on holographic projection. No, not 3D Star Wars stuff, but a lensless technique to spread a laser beam into an image... without needing focusing elements. If you're me, you'll ask, "That's great, but given the blurry results and massive processing requirement, why not scan lasers across a DLP or something?" Answer: Because we know how to do that already; it's just that nobody does.*
If they pull this off, someday your $8 alarm clock will be a projection TV... and likewise, your petaflop laptop will have one built in.
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Back to TheInquirer,
17" LCDs are finally getting cheap again. This is good news, if you ask me; when 15"s went cheap, it was to force the market to 17", but 17" is near the maximum supported by many users' furniture. Get ready for a few more (potentially ignorable) bumps to 18"/19" and widescreens, right before they clock up the DVI spec and tempt us all with truly high-DPI displays. (Hint: Microsoft has to fix Windows' issues with high-res font scaling, first... which probably means Longhorn has to hit the market before they'll bother making single-link UQXGA in cheap enough form for your desk.)
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*A quick search for laser video projectors will turns up at least one; however, they're horrendously expensive, high-powered, direct-raster-scan devices (which also solves the focusing problem, but replaces it with issues of convergence), only in use where lamp technology won't suffice. Let's see what happens when Blu-Ray hits and drives the price down on solid-state blue.
