LG Phillips Patents Oil and Water Display

jordanhh writes "Tech.co.uk reports that LG Phillips has filed a patent for a new type of thin, flexible display. 'The pixels are made from tiny plastic cells filled with minute amounts of oil and water. The oil floats on the surface of the water and shrouds the colored surface underneath it. When electricity is applied across the cell, the oil moves aside, changing the color of the pixel.'"

Last Year?

[bigtomrodney]

This was the big news from Philips/LG last year [com.com]. Did they score another patent on this or is it the same one?

Re:Well this sucks

[Anonymous Coward]

They sunk millions into it and they haven't been able to get it to work yet (this is old old news). A fair amount of that money going to lawyers and work to avoid existing patents no doubt. Hell who knows, maybe they'd have been able to get it to work if random areas of science weren't cordoned off to engineers trying to create products.

Ugh

[TheRealMindChild]

Pardon my pessimism, but I couldn't see this being very fast.

crap...

[ItsLenny]

good as a toy if you're rich and wanna be like... "LOOK WHAT I GOT!!!"

however they say they wanna use it for marketing purposes such as wrapping it around street furniture [tech.co.uk]...

HOWEVER it also says in this part [tech.co.uk] that it needs to be viewed from 180 (straight on)... which would make it invisible to passing vehicles almost always and i'd imagine since it's "not as bright as a standard LCD" that the sun light will just wash it out anways...

cool tech honestly.. but mostly useless I say

Re:Confusing phrasing

[Gordonjcp]

Needs a little introduction, but here goes - there is a fairly low-end football team in Scotland called Inverness Caledonian Thistle, and a much much better team called Glasgow Celtic. Now as it happens, Inverness Caley were drawn against Celtic for a particular match, and things were, to be honest, looking like a bit of a foregone conclusion.

A chap I know is one of the sports writers for the daily red-top rag, The Daily Record. Like most tabloids, about a quarter of it is sports pages, and what they do to get the issue out quickly is have two whole back pages set up - one talking about Celtic's win, one talking about Inverness Caley's win (should it happen). So they're sitting in the office the night before the match, writing up headlines to use for the next day. One of my mate's colleagues says "Oh, well it's never ever going to happen, but - 'Super Caley Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious'?"

Celtic basically needn't have turned up. Inverness Caledonian beat them 4-1, and the headline went out.