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Electronics Wearable Tech

Scientists shrink light to create the tiniest pixel ever

A Full HD panel could fit into one square millimeter

Forward-looking: A team of physicists from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in Germany have created the world's smallest pixel to date. Measuring just 300 by 300 nanometers, the tiny light source is just as bright as a conventional OLED pixel that's five by five micrometers in size and could eventually serve as the building blocking for next-generation, high-resolution wearable displays.

Full story By Shawn Knight, October 27, 2025, 11:01 AM 7 comments

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Gaming Tech Culture

Project Shadowglass brings "impossible" pixel-art worlds to life in real time

Dark fantasy stealth game achieves viral AI-style visuals using the open-source Godot engine

By Skye Jacobs, October 11, 2025, 10:57 AM 7 comments

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Software Tech Culture

Reversing blurred pixels to reveal censored content in videos is easier than you think

GIMP, ffmpeg, and other tools can be used to reveal information behind moving pixelated images

By Daniel Sims, April 16, 2025, 10:23 PM 13 comments

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Tech Culture Gaming

Pixel wall art meets retro gaming in stunning Raspberry Pi 5 project

A big 128x128 pixel display housed in an IKEA picture frame

By Zo Ahmed, March 23, 2025, 9:07 AM

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Gaming Tech Culture

Developer creates a subpixel version of Snake that requires a microscope to play

Impressive if impractical

By Rob Thubron, January 27, 2025, 5:19 AM

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Gaming Hardware

Nintendo says dead pixels on the Switch are "normal" and not a defect

Oh, okay. That makes everything better.

By Rob Thubron, March 6, 2017, 9:45 AM 64 comments

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Mobile Electronics

Sharp's latest smartphone display features a mind-boggling 736 PPI

By Shawn Knight, November 12, 2014, 4:00 PM 21 comments

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Industry Mobile

Samsung to debut 3200x1800, 298 PPI 13.3" LCD panel (and more)

By Rick Burgess, May 20, 2013, 3:30 PM 10 comments

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Industry Hardware

Acer to intro laptops with high-PPI (2880x1620) displays

By Rick Burgess, January 17, 2013, 1:00 PM 12 comments

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Every laptop display should be 2560x1600, dreams Linus Torvalds

By Rick Burgess, November 1, 2012, 7:30 AM 29 comments

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Hardware Industry

Intel: 'Retina'-quality displays coming to laptops, desktops soon

By Matthew DeCarlo, April 12, 2012, 4:19 PM 21 comments