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Monday, August 21, 2006

Innovation - More Lifelike Color TV Tech Studied: "Swiss scientists have unveiled a new technology that could lead to video displays faithfully reproducing a fuller range of colors than do current models.
The invention, based on fine-tuning light using microscopic artificial muscles, could turn into competitively priced consumer products within eight years, the scientists say.

'State-of-the-art displays such as LCD displays can only reproduce a limited range of colors because the three mixing colors red, green and blue are determined during the time of production,' said Manuel Aschwanden, a nanotechnology expert at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. "

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