'Computer-On-Glass' Display 214
bfries writes "Sharp Corp, Japan's largest maker of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), unveiled a screen Tuesday with microprocessor circuitry applied directly onto the glass, enabling it to function like a computer. It uses Sharp's continuous grain silicon (CGS) technology and should be used on some products in 2005."
Cool... (Score:5, Insightful)
How's it look. (Score:5, Insightful)
Digital Photos (Score:5, Insightful)
The abiliy to offload some of the processing on the display would be very helpful. I can see that being a very useful display. Still the idea of storage on the display sounds like Minority Report to me. Very cool.
Didn't look like you could use as a display (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't see the significance of this.
NOT A TROLL!!!! It's a joke! It's a joke! (Score:2, Insightful)
First off, MY username is somethingwicked. Was I trolling myself???
NO!!! I was making a simple joke about how I briefly misinterpretted the wording of the original comment.
Does no one remember the old SNL joke I referenced? So MAYBE it wasn't that good a joke, it sure wasn't a troll
Re:Transparency (Score:3, Insightful)
If Palm could make a PDA with one piece of glass instead of glass and PCB, it could save money.
Every LCD I've seen on a shelf or in a picture has a casing on it. If that space had extra glass with a microprocessor embedded - your LCD screen could be higher quality for less money.
If you want to go to the extreme of the clear hand-held computer, you will probably still have an area to hold it by and maybe even some buttons for using it, which will provide space for circuits.
Plugging the analog hole (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Brain fart... (Score:4, Insightful)
My suggestion was meant to be more along the lines of the water-cooling (with a radiator) that is popular among the overclocking crowd, not just a static pool of water. A display like this could be mounted on a wall, with the pump and radiator in a separate location, connected by a hose.
Re:Didn't look like you could use as a display (Score:2, Insightful)
Dangerous DRM possibilities (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Cool... (Score:4, Insightful)