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Samsung demos ambient light-powered transparent LCD

Wirelessly-powered TVs are nice, and transparent displays are cool and all, but what about an ambient light-powered transparent LCD? Well, that’s nothing short of awesome. Samsung showed off just such a device at CeBIT 2011 last week — a prototype 46-inch display with 1920 x 1080 resolution and ten-finger touchscreen capability. We aren’t sure what kind of black magic Sammy put in this thing, but it’s an incredible feat of engineering to make such a large display — and its accompanying solar cells — efficient enough to run exclusively off the juice it pulls from surrounding light sources. No word on how the photon-powered LCD compares to existing HD monitors in terms of brightness, refresh rates, or color reproduction, but a muted picture is a small price to pay for cutting the electrical cord forever.

Samsung demos ambient light-powered transparent LCD originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Innovation from the Inside Out

The Best Way to Innovate Is to Hire an Innovative Agency You can’t be an expert at something you’ve never tried.   So it makes sense that an agency can’t produce innovative work without first taking time to experiment. This is especially true when it comes to emerging technologies. Understanding how something works isn’t a concept […]

MILLION DOLLAR IDEA: Pay Desperate College Students To Do Anything For You

agent anythingThe idea: Agent Anything is a service that benefits both busy people and poor college students. Swamped at work and need to pick up your dry cleaning? Just post the errand on the site and let one of its many minions—who are all confirmed students—do it for you.

Whose idea: Harry Schiff and Oliver Green.

Why it’s brilliant: Why wait in line for the iPad 2 when you can pay someone to do it for you? Agent Anything is reliable, easy to use and, if you're in college, a great way to make some extra cash. Plus, there's not much of a limit to what you can ask. Recent requests included a bottle of Patron, a washing machine and a deep tissue massage. 

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AdGrok Raises $470K To Be The TurboTax For Search Engine Marketing

Y Combinator-backed AdGrok has raised $470,000 in angel funding from Chris Sacca, Russ Siegelman, Ben Narasin, TriplePoint Capital and Y Combinator.

Today, the startup, which launched in August 2010, is also announcing the general availability of AdGrok to users. AdGrok’s web-based platform allows small businesses purchase contextual keywords on Google AdWords, without the cost of a SEM agency’s work. The SaaS suggests keyword buys, carries them out, and then collects and displays stats about their performance. AdGrok essentially becomes a business’ interface to AdWords, replacing Google’s platform with a more user-friendly software.

AdGrok’s “GrokBot” will crawl a website looking for product pages. When it finds one, it builds the AdWords campaign structures in order to send traffic to that page, generates keywords for that product, and builds text ads from a template library to accompany the keywords specific to that product.

Grok-O-Matic allows companies to import their entire product catalog on AdWords. And companies can find poor performing keywords or a compelling text ad that everyone likes to click on via Groknoculars.

AdGrok’s platform includes deep analytics, including how much traffic businesses are seeing from a keyword or how a text ad is doing, how much it costs, and how much revenue they’re making. AdGrok’s technology will also evaluate a company’s campaign for ways it can be improved and presents these actionable insights and recommendations to users.

AdGrok also offers an agency-like product called GrokMe, in which a Google Certified Professional will do all the set-up and daily management of a business’ Google AdWords account, and they’ll get a weekly report with their campaign’s performance.

The startup’s founder Antonio Garcia-Martinez says that he wants AdGrok, which faces competition from Clickable, to be the TurboTax of search engine marketing and keyword bidding. AdGrok’s platform has evolved since we its launch, now offering both a self-serve and a agency-like offering and now appeals to both small and large businesses.

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