Sony unveils world's thinnest LCD HDTV - 9.9mm KDL-40ZX1

Sony has come out with the thinnest LCD HDTV. At just 9.9mm thick the KDL-40ZX1 nearly halves the depth of Hitachi's former champ.

[via engadget]

Twist and Squeeze Remote Control

A TV remote you can twist and squeeze. Because most people only watch 12 different channels. By designer Jason Kline.

[via Yanko Design]

NBCUniversalStore.com offers products featured on network shows

NBCUniversalStore.com lets you buy products featured on the network’s shows with a section devoted to the Beijing Olympics. [via Hollywood Reporter.

The store also has a SeenON! feature that allows consumers to purchase items that were used on such NBC shows as "Lipstick Jungle," "Saturday Night Live" and "Deal or No Deal."

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-- Shopisodes enable you to Dress Like Your Favorite TV Character

-- Coolspotters sells on what celebrities are wearing

Remote (holder) Buddy

Remote (holder) Buddy exemplifies the need for a universal remote. Hear hear.

[via engadget]

An 'invisible' satellite dish that blends in

Spotted on CrunchGear, a satellite dish that's not dish-like, but blends in with the background.

[via The Daily Mail]

TV Armor

TV Armor protects your LCD or Plasma TV from flying objects.

[via EngadgetHD]

Remote Control Pillows

Spotted on TrendHunter, remote control pillows.

The Ultimate Remote

Spotted on CrunchGear, a soon to be released Ultimate Remote branded ESPN, enablling sports' fans to access ESPN.com, getting real time stats and scores for favorite players and teams.

Coolspotters

Coolspotters, a new site from Connecticut based startup Fanzter, will launch later today. TechCrunch reports.

"It’s an eye-candy celebrity-focused site that shows users the products celebrities are wearing in various photos. Users can then talk about and, of course, purchase those items.

Users can track celebrities, products, brands, shows (TV, Movies, etc.), places, events, and more.

Other services such as SeenOn show clothing and other items used by celebrities in TV shows, which can then be purchased. But Coolspotters is the first collaborative site that gets users to do most of the work. It’s essentially a structured data wiki The end result is a ton of highly structured, highly valuable information."

Related: - Shopisodes enable you to Dress Like Your Favorite TV Character

Tribute to Norma Desmond dress

Scott Tallenger's Tribute to Norma Desmond dress features still and moving images from the film Sunset Boulevard.

Shown at 2nd Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital & Analog Clothing," a runway fashion show held at the Exploratorium in San Francisco's last Friday night.

[via News.com]

Universal Remote Can Be Worn On Any Button

This soft electronic device is designed to slip on anything with a button. With a little simple programming, just about anything can be controlled from it by turning the disk in various directions. By designer Tobi Kim.

[Yanko Design via Gizmodo]

Armani HDTV

The lines are blurring, designer Armani has launched an HDTV with Samsung. I can understand Armani's launching a cell phone as a fashion accessory, but a TV set?

[via engadget]

Italian TV Designs

The Alpha TV with an integrated DVD player and an attractive remote control (no it's not a cell phone). Spotted on a print ad in IHT magazine. From Italian TV Designer Brionvega at brionvega.tv. Available late 2008.

In their own words:

Brionvega products have become cult objects and are still exhibited in the best known museums in the world, including MOMA in New York.

After decades of silence, Brionvega returns with a brand new product, Alpha (above), and a limited edition of the emblems Algol (bottom left) and Doney (bottom right) as a homage to the glorious past of the brand.

Sony's E4000 series. Pretty as a picture

Spotted on engadget via Techdigest, Sony's new E4000 TV series that blend right in.

Retro TV Trays

Anyone old enought to remember TV diners? Spotted on productdose, retro TV trays.

NapTV

Spotted on Gizmodo, the Nap TV concept.

Little Girls: A Working TV For Your Dollhouse

Spotted on Geekologie, a doll house TV set which is fully functional.

In their own words: We are able to bring a fully modern aspect to your dolls house by providing real TV, thru Freeview or DVD into your 12th scale living room. The TV's are easy to install, they have a very clear crisp picture and are a must for any dolls house enthusiast.

Art over TV

When the TV is turned off the Hi-tech system -ART over TV - glides the picture of your choice into the position across the screen.

This precision made lift holds any painting up to 20 pounds. It slides invisibly and smoothly.

ARToverTV permits the return of any room to a TV free zone. Made in Switzerland.

[via Swiss Miss]

Television Mirrors

Spotted on Newlaunches, television mirrors by Seura.

Transparent and Touchless Remote Control

Touting itself as a no-touch Remote Control, the device designed by a Dutch Student for Bang & Olufsen features an unorthodox mechanism which entails sweeping your hand through a vacant space in the device in order to control your TV.

To change the channel, just slide your finger through the open space on the remote. To change the volume, place your finger inside of the remote cavity, and watch as the remote changes angles to simulate the falling or rising volume.

[via GearFuse]

LG showcases fashion-led televisions With invisible speakers

Spotted on Pocket-Lint, a new LG "cutting edge TV collection" showcased at the London Fashion Week.

"The flagship model of LG's new LCD range is the HD ready 1080p LG6000, a TV with a slim silhouette and a unique red-coloured back while a round LED light aperture gives the set a "soft red pulsating glow".

A black leather TV-Purse. Of course

Spotted on Shiny Shiny from Hannspree: a black leather purse-TV.

Watching DVD's while in the dentist chair

A local Sangenjaya dentist chair now includes a retrofitted flat screen TV used for showing DVDs to fearful patients and is then used to display x-rays shortly after they are taken.

Sangenjaya is a neighbourhood of Tokyo, three subway stops southwest of Shibuya.

[via everyone's favorite Jan Chipchase on future perfect]

The White House Movie Theater

Spotted on Gizmodo, pictures of the White House movie theater, re-decorated by Laura Bush, and below, the way it was, a former cloakroom converted by FDR into a theater in 1942.

Home Theater Designed to Look Like Radio City

Spotted on Gizmodo, a home theater installed by architect James Biber. With leather floors and co-ordinating beanbags, Biber took his inspiration from New York's Radio City, with a little bit of 2001: A Space Odyssey thrown in for good measure.

TV Easel

Spotted on dezeen, the TV Easel by Swedish designer Axel Bjurström presented at the Greenhouse young designers showcase at the Stockholm Furniture Fair last week.

[via GearFuse]

Cosies for Electronic Objects

This is the story of an electro sensitives’ obsession with knitting cosies for electronic objects. This obsession was passed on by Zoe Papadopoulou's grandmother who discovered that by knitting cosies with wool and wire she could stop her domestic appliances from emitting electromagnetic radiation.

Zoe Papdopoulou took on her Grandmother's hobby and weaving a thin thread of copper in the wool and grounding it, she ensures that the electromagnetic fields are blocked on all home appliances; her cell phone, toaster, radio, coffeepot, microwave, even her satellite dish.

View images of the cosied household products on we-make-money-not-art.com. The satellite dish cozy appears in a video interview of the designer.

According to the designer, the shields work better on some objects than on others. The microwave and radio cozies for example block the waves very well. It seems to depend on the density of the knits and the thickness of the copper wire."

[via we-make-money-not-art.com]

The Nautilus Home Theater

Spotted on DVICE, the Nautilus home theater created to resemble the interior of the submarine of the same name from Jules Verne's classic novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Louis Vuiton Video Bag

A new trend: designer video bags. [via TrendHunter]

"Designing for Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs walked down the catwalk with the new LCD screen mini trunk playing Sponge Bob Square pants.

Wi-Fi remote controle

Spotted on Gadgetll a remote controle with Wi-Fi.

You can browse the web while watching TV on it’s 2.2-inch cell phone-like LCD screen.

TV screen for laptops

From favoritsaker.se, a TV test pattern screen for laptops.

Test Pattern Wall Clock

Spotted on GearFuse, The Test Pattern Wall Clock.

9 mm thin Plasma TV concept is thinner than the iPhone

Spotted on Gizmodo who's covering CES 2008 in las Vegas, a 9 mm thin plasma TV concept from Pioneer.

It's thinner than the iPhone! or, in Pioneer's own words "thinner than last month's issue of Wired magazine."

The world largest consumer plasma flat TV

Spotted on Popgadget, "the world largest consumer plasma flat TV," which is big enough to stand in.

The 150-inch Panasonic plasma TV has a size dimension of 138 x 79 inches.

Senior Remote

Spotted on Core77, a simple remote control for the elderly who find electronics confusing.

The Senior Remote is made of fabric and has only three functions: On/Off, Channel and Volume.

Handheld TV Recorder/Player

Takara Tomy's newest multimedia toy called Video Clip lets you record segments from any TV show and play it back on this cute little handheld.

It has really simple controls—pause, play, fast forward, rewind—and can store up to 8 hrs of video or 60 hrs of audio.

[via Tokyomango]

Sony Senseware TV concept

Spotted on Ubergizmo, an interesting-looking micro-TV concept from the Sony Design Studio.

“Introducing fabric in TV design can again change the product landscape and stimulate our senses in entirely new ways. Sets that rest comfortably in the palm of your hand. Sets projecting images that reach you like the song of a little bird by your pillow.”

[via Yanko Design]

First OLED TV

Displays that use organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are more vivid than liquid-crystal displays, have much faster refresh rates, and draw less power, but so far, manufacturing difficulties have limited them to small sizes fit only for handheld devices.

On December 1, and only in Japan, Sony released the world's first OLED television, featuring an 11-inch panel with a layer of light-emitting organic material just several hundred nanometers thick. Initially, Sony plans to manufacture 2,000 of the TVs per month.

[via Technology Review]

Super-Sized TV Remote

Spotted on Popgadget, a Super-Sized TV Remote.

More TV antennas from Uzbekistan

Two more TV antennas spotted in Uzbekistan by favorite Jan Chipchase

Previously: - Taking (TV) Reception Seriously

TV and towel rack combined

Spotted on Ubergizmo, A TV and towel rack combined.

"Aquavision Towel Rail TV features a 17" waterproof LCD display as well as fully heated chrome rails that keep your towels all warm and toasty in the morning. Just like the TV, the included remote control is waterproof."

Colorlight

The Colorlight DVD softly rotates your TV's screen through all sorts of colors and hues to keep the scene interesting.

[via Popgadget]

TV-Like Twist Together Lamps

Spotted on OhGizmo, TV like self design lamps called Twist Together Lamp.

[via Core77]

Apple shape remote control

Spotted on Yanko Design, an apple shaped remote by designer Jason Roebuck.

Imagine, every member of the household having their own Apple. Each is a slightly different shade of green so you’ll know who’s who. You can program your own functions to best suit your TV watching needs and should you need to go beyond that, the remote responds to motion gestures. Rotating it left lowers the volume, rotating it right raises it.

Television Mirror

The Séura bathroom mirror comes with a built-in television, so you can watch while you brush your teeth.

"Sharp’s LCDs are OK for use in damp, humid environments. The surrounding panels can either be made of oak, cherry or maple wood or be coated in more mirrors."

[via TrendHunter Magazine]