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Is there room for a product that’s part digital picture frame, part all-in-one PC, but mostly just a monitor? Acer seems to think so, and it’s doing its best to carve out a niche for itself with its new 24-inch D241H model, which promises to do nothing short of “revolutionize the way you use a monitor.” To accomplish that feat, the monitor packs built-in WiFi, along some basic internet / media player capabilities that will let you check your email, keep watch on the news, weather and other things via some widgets, or simply enjoy some music, photos or videos. You’ll also get a built-in memory card reader, a pair of USB ports, a wired LAN port, and an apparently included wireless keyboard (no touchscreen here, folks)

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Acer D241H monitor has built-in WiFi, media player, identity crisis

Having a little trouble checking in on your tweeps this morning on your Droid ? Is your new Pre Plus not syncing with Facebook, or your Storm2 acting a little too calm?

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Verizon suffering ‘nationwide’ data outage

Sure, you might expect your laptop to overheat or explode at any moment — but cut you with a seemingly harmless logo? That’s the strange but true case of iBuyPower’s Battalion Touch CZ-10 , at least, which left one Laptop Magazine reviewer with a nasty gash (that may or may not have required Band-Aid attention) after he decided to inspect a sliver of the “W” that appeared to be peeling off

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iBuyPower Battalion Touch laptop lid draws blood, prompts replacement

Panasonic and LG won’t be the only ones with Skype-enabled HDTVs , though we peeped it in the specs earlier , Samsung has officially announced its new 7000 and 8000 series televisions will also include access. Accessible through the embedded Samsung Apps service, it appears it will work with the new HD video processing webcams just like the others, so users can log in to or create an account with the remote then make video or voice calls away from the PC.

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Samsung makes Skype for new LED lit HDTVs official

Laptops or desktops stuck with only VGA output often need a little help to get their content onto an HDTV, and Atlona is there for them. It’s introducing another in a storied line of HDMI adapters, this one taking VGA input and turning it to HDMI output

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Atlona’s VGA to HDMI adapter ditches the brick, does 1080p on USB power

So, there’s good news and bad news, and we tend to prefer starting with the former. According to Akihabara News , Mitsubishi has whipped up an upscaling technology to end all upscaling technologies — one that takes vanilla 1080p material to 4K x 2K without breaking a sweat. Now, for the less-than-awesome tidbit

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Mitsubishi’s upconverting technology takes 1080p to 4K x 2K, you to cloud nine

It’s not the mythical pinch-to-zoom patent, but the USPTO just granted a fairly broad Apple patent on capacitive multitouch displays. US Patent #7,663,607 describes a “transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches” by way of two sandwiched layers of conductive lines hooked up to an appropriate circuit, and also covers a specific type of multitouch display with a similar two-layer capacitive sensor made of glass

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Apple granted patent on capacitive multitouch displays

OpenPeak is a company so open it just can’t resist throwing the word into damn-near every product it makes, and the new OpenTablet 7 is no exception.

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OpenPeak introduces Morrestown-powered OpenTablet 7, sticks with Open naming scheme

We’ve just been sent into an Auditorium here at ONCE in Barcelona — just seconds away from the Fira convention center — and we’re about to get underway. Keep it locked! Continue reading Live from Nokia’s (and Intel’s) MWC 2010 press event Live from Nokia’s (and Intel’s) MWC 2010 press event originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .

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Live from Nokia’s (and Intel’s) MWC 2010 press event