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  2. Liquid-crystal display - Wikipedia

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    The crystals may exist in one of two stable orientations ("black" and "white") and power is only required to change the image. ZBD Displays is a spin-off company from QinetiQ who manufactured both grayscale and color ZBD devices. Kent Displays has also developed a "no-power" display that uses polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystal (ChLCD ...

  3. Tempered glass - Wikipedia

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    A vandalised telephone booth made with tempered glass. Tempered or toughened glass is a type of safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass.

  4. List of stock characters - Wikipedia

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    This pejorative stereotype of a Mexican prostitute was common in Western films. She is the female counterpart to El bandido, a pejorative stereotype depicting a violent Mexican bandit. The "halfbreed harlot" is depicted as a lusty nymphomaniac with a hot temper.

  5. STN display - Wikipedia

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    In 1982, C. M. Waters and E. P. Raynes patented STN displays, [1] and by 1984 researchers at Brown Boveri (later ABB) built the first prototype STN matrix display, with 540 × 270 pixels. [2] A key challenge was finding a way to address more pixels efficiently. Standard TN displays weren't ideal for this because of their voltage characteristics.

  6. Mother Who Charges Over $1,000 For Halloween Pumpkin Displays ...

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    People pay thousands of dollars or go on waiting lists to get their hands on some viral pumpkin decorations for Halloween. Heather Torres, from Texas, USA, has seen her festive adornment business ...

  7. Comparison of display technology - Wikipedia

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    CRTs use an electron beam, scanning the display, flashing a lit image. If interlacing is used, a single full-resolution image results in two "flashes". The physical properties of the phosphor are responsible for the rise and decay curves. Plasma displays modulate the "on" time of each sub-pixel, similar to DLP.

  8. Red Bull F1 employee who accused team boss Horner of ... - AOL

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    The Red Bull Racing Formula 1 employee whose complaint sparked an investigation into alleged misconduct by team principal Christian Horner has been suspended, a person with information on the ...

  9. Surface-conduction electron-emitter display - Wikipedia

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    Canon began SED research in 1986. [5] Their early research used PdO electrodes without the carbon films on top, but controlling the slit width proved difficult. At the time there were a number of flat-screen technologies in early development, and the only one close to commercialization was the plasma display panel (PDP), which had numerous disadvantages – manufacturing cost and energy use ...