Coming Soon(ish) From LG: Transparent, Rollup Display 64
jfruh (300774) writes Korean electronics manufacturer LG has shown off experimental, see-through, roll-up displays, paper thin and flexible and capable of letting through about 30% of the light that strikes it. The company is eager to sell the concept and promises it'll be arriving soon, though they've shown of similar (though less capable) technology over the past few years and have yet to bring any products to market.
Could this be the year (Score:2)
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1997 and I so want a Global Communicator.
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These fabulous screens have been used on CSI Miami for years. Who doesn't like to pick out fine details of an image that are crucial to a criminal case displayed on a semi-transparent display?
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The Weather Channel (Score:2)
Re:The Weather Channel (Score:5, Funny)
...broadcasting beautiful ads 24 hours a day, on a window near you.
Fixed
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Or the news from Mars.
Electronic gaming mats (Score:2)
soon. please?
Almost a million megapixels! (Score:4, Funny)
The rollable display sports a 1200x810 resolution with nearly 1 million megapixels.
I just wish my bank did that sort of math...
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Sssh! Don't give them ideas!
"Your monthly fee is $1000 cents."
Promises... (Score:2)
Promises... (Score:2)
Also, there's the unavoidable problem you have with display clarity. Right now screens are on a flat substrate, and so each pixel is aligned with the next one, which reproduces an image accurately. But what happens when you have an unrolled display sitting on your desk, or held in your hand? It will inevitably be have varying levels of curve along it's length and possibly more complex crumples, resulting in poor image accuracy. Fixing that will require some clever sensors embedded in the display along w
As one semi famous football player (Score:1)
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Can someone explain... (Score:3)
..the appeal of a transparent display?
So I can see what's behind the display? As if we don't have enough issues with sunlight reflecting from display surfaces, now we're going to let the light coming from *behind* the display further reduce its readability?
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Can someone explain the appeal of a transparent display?
You can see through it. That's very helpful for augmented reality. Being flexible makes it easier to attach to things and being transparent means that you only obscure as much of what's underneath (or beyond if the substrate is also transparent) as you absolutely need to.
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Potentially both - imagine a transparent display with an additional switchable opacity layer integrated into it - essentially making a full RGBA display where opacity can be specified on a per-pixel basis. At the most trivial level you could have opaque application windows floating on a transparent pane that obstructs your view as much or little as necessary, sort of like having a bank of adjustable-sized monitors. Laminate it onto a north-facing picture window with a great view and I'd be sold.
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There's lots of potential uses, although pretty much zero of them are on your desktop.
On the other hand, flexible displays will be useful as soon as we get decent flexible batteries and circuits, just helping us not destroy electronics. Of course, the batteries are only halfway there, and the circuits will be completely throwaway and even more integrated than now. At least some repair is possible today...
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Car HUD
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Worse than useless as a HUD. Downright dangerous. A proper HUD is features a collimated display, so you don't have to take focus off your environment to look at it.
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Augmented reality?
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I think their market research branch must have forgotten to consult you, and may have accidentally focused on companies that have been waiting for this stuff for ages and will give them pots of money for it.
Sunglasses, windows, motorcycle visors, car HUDs, "open plan" office cubicles (though that'd be a mistake, it would be a mistake enough people would make to justify putting it on the market).
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- Real head's up displays...cars, motorcycle helmets, etc.
- Leela's arm-puter.
- Entire glass walls that double as giant displays...like Tony Stark's house.
and on and on...
Do what.
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Hah! Nobody expects the Terapixel Revolution.
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Gyricon (Score:1)
Coming from, where else? Hint: not Apple, but close...
maximum curvature radius... (Score:1)
Does that mean something like, minimum radius?
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Yeah, normally you'd quote a radius of curvature as an actual unit of length - the radius of the smallest curve the material can take without failing. I'm not sure what "100R" means except something like a translation or transcription error.
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Hmm, it's "100R" in the original Korean too.
http://www.lgdisplay.com/lgdhp... [lgdisplay.com]
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Oh, maybe hang it on a wall if you desire privacy? Maybe even have a wall built that is almost exactly the same size as the monitor sheet and have some sort of lighting in it.
So sell it already. (Score:1)
It's been "coming soon" for nearly 5 years now. They talk about these sorts of displays every year, offer all kinds of compelling demos and then never do anything with it.
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This is a good sign. If someone's showing you technology every year and it's gradually getting bigger and better and eventually starts showing up in products (like LG's TVs) then it's a science and engineering problem that's being advanced. If someone's showing you a technology that never existed before and it's suddenly a whole product, it often means it's so premature it's going to fail and better products will climb over its still-warm corpse towards success, or that it's a scam.
Eye contact (Score:2)
...capable of letting through about 30% of the light that strikes it.
Does this mean I can finally see my office mate, who is sitting opposite to my desk?
Hope for the Toronto Maple Leafs? (Score:2)
This year we get flexible displays ... and with equal probability the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup.
Promises ... promises
forget transparency, it's the rollup (Score:2)
If I could only get a 7 or 8-inch tablet with a screen that could be unrolled (and maybe unfolded) to say 16 by 10 inches, I'd be in techietoy heaven. No more squinting at tiny webpage displays, no more squinting at 6-point font displays of books,... you get the idea.
Sexism at work (Score:2)
Why is it women who are showing off the product?
Surely they were not involved in the design of this technology.