Samsung Reinvents Windows (Not the OS) With Touchscreen Display 227
An anonymous reader writes "If you want a large, interactive display on your wall, typically you have to make space for it by moving any pictures out of the way, and finding room next to any shelves or lighting you have installed. Samsung's idea is to remove that problem by creating a transparent display that replaces an actual window, or at least sit over the top of one. The display uses ambient light during the day and then can switch over to a more traditional black background as a night time mode. If you want to shut the daylight out it has virtual blinds you can draw to help darken a room. And from the outside you just like you are tapping your window as none of the graphics can be seen. Yes, your neighbors will talk."
Re:Samsung's weather widget (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah, cause there's so many unique ways to lay out a weather widget. Oh, right. Apple exclusively owns any layout they happen to use, and anyone else must use the most inconvenient format and layout they can think of.
Because Apple is so unique and innovative [google.com]
Fucking idiot fanboys.
Re:Weather app is a rip-off of OS X weather widget (Score:5, Insightful)
Nah. I don't have an OSX box to play with, but the Windows 7 widget is currently on the right side of my screen, and the screenshots from OP appear accurate: Both Samsung and Apple have widgets that extend beyond the top of a rectangle, while MSFT does not.
So it looks, to me, more like the OSX widiget.
But really, who cares? It's not like whoever is responsible for these various computer devices invented the concept of a concise tabular weather display with informative graphics. Folks had been doing that long, long time before before any of this in both print and on TV.
That the layout persists is more evidence of its perceived usefulness, than it is evidence that it has been flagrantly copied from someone else's creative work.
Re:O RLY (Score:4, Insightful)
Seriously [wikipedia.org]. So many folks are blamed for errors in these days of blogs and chaos, when a simple [ sic [wikipedia.org]] would be perfectly adequate to exonerate them.
Re:Wouldn't be surprised (Score:2, Insightful)
It'll just be ad-sponsored (cf: Black Mirror).
Re:Weather app is a rip-off of OS X weather widget (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:O RLY (Score:5, Insightful)
Disabling JavaScript works here to get around the SOPA banners (which are pretty pointless outside the US, since we can't do anything much about it).
Which is the point. You can't do much about it, but you'll suffer the consequences with the rest of the world.
Re:Vertical touch interface ??? (Score:5, Insightful)
10 minutes is an over-estimate - my research has found RTC fatigue occurs in as little as 2 minutes. Its funny how this mistake keeps being made over-and-over again...I speculate that it is due to a lack of serious research and the general prescriptions of avoiding fatigue, without understanding the full range of human capabilities, when designing Touch-UIs such as this.
Anyways yes, for very minimal interactions this concept is great - so much surface area is devoted to glass that I'm sure Samsung is going to have a massive product here, however I foresee the big interest in this being less to do with the interactivity, more with the transparency of the display. Imagine walking down the high street in 2025 and every shop front having animated displays which complement the internal displays. Imaging mirrors where you can try on different colours of make-up, hair shades, hair styles etc; add on some head tracking capabilities and there are some possibly fascinating AR applications.
The tech seems to be scaling up year by year and they appear to have improved the transparency (its was 40% (?) opaque in 2010) - really an exciting product. Cant wait for it to come on a roll ;)
Re:O RLY (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Weather app is a rip-off of OS X weather widget (Score:4, Insightful)
What Jobs said is clearly bullshit. What he actually DID was all about the Benjamins, no "homage" intended.
Re:Weather app is a rip-off of OS X weather widget (Score:4, Insightful)
It's a chart. How many different ways can you display it? There's only a few, so no matter what they did they'll be "ripping off" someone.