NEC has designed beautiful and romantic heart-shaped LCD panel using new technology that enables more flexible design of TFT LCD panels. The prototype design, a heart-shaped low-temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) color TFT LCD module formed using two half-circular arcs and two straight lines, has a display width of 4 cm, height of 3.6 cm and pixel pitch of 174 micrometers. he new development is based on a more flexible TFT display that puts the display’s driver circuits along the perimeter of the LCD glass, allowing for more creative data and gate arrangements. The new LCD panel will be presented at the Society for Information Display (SID) Symposium on Friday May 23rd.

Seagate continues the WD steps and announced the Showcase external HDD for media centers and DVRs. This device extends the storage capacity of your Digital Video Recorder, so you never have to say goodbye to your favorite movies and television shows. Seagate also announced that the Showcase products will be designed to be compatible with Motorola’s market leading e-SATA capable high-definition (HD) digital video recorder (DVR) set-top portfolio. They also come with USB 2.0 ports and up to 1TB of space. Unfortunately there is no info about prices but we’re expecting that Showcase will hit the stores somewhere in Q3.

Vosonic has a new device that we could name PMP but actually not so sure about that. The VP5700 features 3.5 inch display, very cheap plastic casing and not so nice controls, multicard reader and support for image, audio and video files. Are you really interested in availability and prices?