1.   LCDs are flat panel screens used in laptop computers and other electronic devices.

2.   Other manufacturers like Sony, IBM and Panasonic are also displaying new flat panel screens, which are expected to be hot sellers next year as they get cheaper.

3.   The flat panel display screen would be about the size of the combined areas of the three rear view mirrors the car would no longer have.

4.   Flat panel display screens are replacing bulky cathode-ray tubes in portable computers and televisions.

5.   In the U.S. market, its DVD players, cell phones, flat panel screens and digital TV sets are as expensive and well-received as Japanese products.

6.   The manufacturing of flat panel screens does involve caustic chemicals, however, and some LCD brands contain mercury in their switches, Smith said.

7.   Toshiba and IBM produce flat panel computer screens at a joint venture in Japan and are cooperating on another type of memory chips, called flash memory.