LG Phillips Patents Oil and Water Display 90
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.'"
oil and water (Score:3, Funny)
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Its just a multi-pixel lava lamp (Score:2)
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I'm taking your comment with a pinch of salt...
Confusing phrasing (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Confusing phrasing (Score:4, Funny)
At least it isn't "British Left Waffles on Falklands."
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Okay, that wasn't nice, I admit it.
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Re:Confusing phrasing (Score:4, Funny)
"Carpenter nails wife, kills self."
The headline guy was fired for that one.
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Two of my favorites:
"Day gives daughters 1st-hand job experience"
"Shooting spree spreads Christmas bliss"
But the headlines are only part of the hilarity. Some of the stories posted on that page are an absolute riot.
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Here in Brazil that news about lead in Mattel's toys painting got this headline:
China-made toys cause brain damage
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Do american companies really fire people left and right for simple mistakes? Or is it just an euphenism?
Seems that I see "XXX was fired for XXX" all the time.
Personally I don't know anyone who has ever been fired for anything but gross, willfull, bordering-the-law hazardous actions.
Even if you are incompetent, the company that hired you tries to find easier work for you instead of firing. Even if you come to work drunk, you've given two weeks paid leave to get yourself in shap
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--Glenn
Re:Confusing phrasing (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
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Re:Well this sucks (Score:5, Interesting)
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"I can dig that..." (Score:4, Funny)
Sounds pretty slick! (Score:1, Funny)
Excellent Blacks (Score:5, Funny)
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Last Year? (Score:4, Interesting)
Thanks for the link (Score:3, Informative)
('street furniture' => 'bus stops') ie. vertical, not horizontal mounting
Well (Score:2, Funny)
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Not very palatable (Score:1, Funny)
One "L"! (Score:5, Informative)
Prior art... (Score:3, Funny)
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Nice try LG, but *I* patented it first! (Score:1, Funny)
Dr. Peter V. Boesen
SP Technolgies
Ugh (Score:3, Interesting)
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It uses liposuction wastes, so the fatter you are, the bigger the screen.
Where's the "cheap" part? (Score:5, Informative)
The "E-paper" and "E-ink" crowd have been touting "cheap, flexible displays" for about fifteen years now. But all they ever seem to deliver are expensive, rigid displays inferior to other technologies.
Electrostatic oil displacement has been used before, most notably in the Eidophor [spgv.com] projection TV system. This is a technology first demonstrated in 1939, yet in use through 1993. Big, heavy, expensive, and complicated, but could project TV pictures brighter than film. The image medium was an oil film written by an electron beam, used as a reflector for a lamp.
The basic idea is simple, but making it work required rotating smoothed oil film past the projection station, so there were big moving parts. All this had to happen in vacuum, but it wasn't a sealed unit, because the cathode had to be changed every 200 hours or so. So it needed high-vacuum pumps, vacuum locks, hours of startup, and a skilled operator.
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Made me wonder-can this new display be vertical? Wouldn't the oil separate to the top, exposing water on the bottom (fine for horizontal use)?
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It's a pixel-sized cell thing; each cell is sealed. At that scale, surface tension beats gravity, so orientation may not matter much.
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Still, it might be fun to shake it really hard & see what happens
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A color Etch-a-Sketch monitor.
Iconarama, the USAF's Etch-A-Sketch (Score:2)
Just what everyone needs: A color Etch-a-Sketch monitor.
That's been tried. The Iconorama [ed-thelen.org] was a 1950s effort by the USAF to build a large-screen display. This was a computer-controlled Etch-a-Sketch like setup arranged as a projector. As with an Etch-A-Sketch, there was no selective erasing; when the image (which was mostly the tracks of attacking aircraft) became cluttered, the entire image was cleared and replaced with a newly drawn one. The previous big-screen attack plotting technology was an edge-
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Just what we need... (Score:3, Funny)
Prior Art (Score:4, Funny)
Oil based displays have been in use for years. In fact, there is famous prior art [wikipedia.org].
Re:Prior Art (Score:5, Funny)
eink? (Score:2)
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Shakespeare, in the original Klingon (Score:2)
And what does that word mean, when translated from the German?
crap... (Score:3, Interesting)
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
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Write out 50 times... (Score:2)
No they don't. They report that LG Philips has done so. How hard is it to at least get the name of the subject company right?
And it's not even right in the headline. Sometimes I despair.
Salad Oil Display (Score:2)
Sharp (Score:2, Funny)
Oleo Display or OLEOD? (Score:2)
Prior Art! (Score:1)
I can see it now... (Score:1)
"Shuttle to Mission Control: Orbital insertion in 3...2...1...ummmm.... Guys, we have a problem..."