LG Developing Sliding Doors Made of Transparent OLED Displays (theverge.com) 53
LG has partnered with Swedish manufacturer Assa Abloy Entrance Systems to develop automatic sliding doors with built-in transparent OLED displays, the company announced today. The doors will be aimed at businesses, and LG says they'll be able to greet customers, communicate with employees, or show ads. The Verge reports: LG has been showing off its transparent displays for a little while now, and it unveiled a range of transparent signage early last year. Now, we're seeing the panels used in the real world. In August, LG announced that its displays were being used in the windows of subway carriages in Beijing and Shenzhen in China, and OLED-Info reports that both Panasonic and Xiaomi's transparent OLED TVs use LG panels.
LG's announcement doesn't give much of an indication of when these high-end doors might become available for businesses. But considering the transparent OLED technology has started being deployed, they can't be too far away from decorating the world's most decadent shopping centers.
LG's announcement doesn't give much of an indication of when these high-end doors might become available for businesses. But considering the transparent OLED technology has started being deployed, they can't be too far away from decorating the world's most decadent shopping centers.
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Wrong thread, turbo.
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Maybe the GP is thinking that they'll use these for shower doors in porn movies — two people watching porn in the shower while they make porn in the shower.
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Pornception?
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Obvious use (Score:1)
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I was thinking the conversation was more like:
"How else can we mess with bird?"
"What about a door made of OLED displays so the birds have no clue what they're flying into? And we can change it whenever we want to keep them guessing."
"I like it Johnson. That's vice-president thinking there."
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I got an even sillier idea but the tech wasn't ready: make the doors to an elevator that are LCD panels on both sides. The default behavior is for the LCD panels to show an image of what is on the other side of the door so they look like transparent glass. After the doors close on you and the elevator starts moving, they show an animation of what you *would* see if the elevator was moving. But then zany things could happen - Like it could play the sound effect of a cable breaking, and the LCD panels woul
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I want to stay in your hotel.
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I'll bet hackers do the most simple practical joke imaginable, make it look like the doors have opened so you face plant, you know it will happen and happen a lot. Doors should just be doors, windows should just be windows and walls, well they should be video screens every single little bit of them and ceilings as well. Who wants a small window with a view when you can have an entire wall with all sorts of views from mountain top to coral attoll.
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Thorpe Park (in the UK) once had a "ride" which was just a big cinema screen with no seats. You watched a sort of first-person of going on a roller coaster, and then a bumper-eye view of a fast car drive around the mountains.
Almost no one could actually stay standing throughout - the screen was big enough and close enough that you got (nearly) complete immersion into it - was very clever. Your lift idea would probably achieve that in a confined space.
If you could add some touch screen material to the screen
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Just run a fake video of the doors opening and then watch people walk into closed doors.
Any ideas for what video one could run on the door of a gynaecologist and a proctologist? "Step right in!" ...
Oh boy (Score:2)
"LG says they'll be able to greet customers, communicate with employees, or show ads. "
"Yay, more ads!" ...said no one ever.
Why not all 3 annoying behaviors?
Scan you for your biometric data, errr, I mean "welcome you as a valued customer", inform the salespeople there's fresh meat on the floor, AND try to sell you something as you pass though.
I wonder how vandal-resistant they are. Asking for a friend.
Re: Oh boy (Score:5, Funny)
Welcome back to the GAP, Mr. Yamamoto!
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FYI: Some gas stations do this on the pumps. Please do not go to those gas stations.
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If you opt out of ads, they'll make sure you walk straight into the doors.
Dead article link (Score:1)
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next thing you learn is how to walk thru an ad... (Score:3)
I can't wait... (Score:3)
"they'll be able to greet customers, communicate with employees, or show ads"
And what do you think will be, by far, the actual usage?
"No, I don't want to buy tranquilizers, I just want to find the damned door!"
Re:I can't wait... (Score:4, Funny)
The malicious ads will show fake door handles to make it hard for you to open the actual door.
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Groceries stores can now advertise actual spam on their new spammy ad doors. It's SPAMCEPTION.
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Most big grocery stores turn off the lights inside the cooler/freezer sections until a motion sensor detects someone approaching. How likely is it that they'll want to use extra power to show ads in the doors?
I for one will be fairly P.O.ed if an ad pops up while I'm trying to find some frozen veggies. But I can see it now: taking a cue from YouTube, the freezer section door is locked until you watch an ad.
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Most big grocery stores turn off the lights inside the cooler/freezer sections until a motion sensor detects someone approaching. How likely is it that they'll want to use extra power to show ads in the doors?
I for one will be fairly P.O.ed if an ad pops up while I'm trying to find some frozen veggies. But I can see it now: taking a cue from YouTube, the freezer section door is locked until you watch an ad.
Oh good lord. That's EXACTLY how they'll do it.
Re: I can't wait... (Score:2)
Yeah, for all those people.who only got one eye.
When did you try to climb through the TV frame the last time? ;)
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It says it's automatic sliding doors. You don't have to open them yourself.
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It says it's automatic sliding doors. You don't have to open them yourself.
Ok, so, do they not slide open until you've watched the commercial? Will there be a "skip ad" button after five seconds?
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I cannot imagine it. I find the idea plain stupid. If we needed it then we would already have lots of ads on many doors. And we can have big TV screens next to entrances, too, but this you also don't see often. So the combination of a door and a TV sounds like it was pulled out of thin air and will likely end with cracked and broken displays and expensive repairs. When you then match the cost with the gain will it very likely turn into a niche product.
I just remembered that in the past did a few shops place
OLED? Prepare for burn-in! (Score:3)
Very soon they will see some fancy sliding doors with stains that you cannot clean.
Re: OLED? Prepare for burn-in! (Score:2)
The damn thing's gonna be one big screensaver.
BSOD (Score:3)
Blue Screen of Door
Damn! They Don't Seem To Be Flexible! (Score:1)
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Flexible? (Score:2)
It isn't a tent, you know?
Re: Flexible? (Score:2)
Damn, shoud have gone: It isn't a tent they're pitchin'!
Opportunity for true evil. (Score:3)
Sensing someone approaching, the door will show will show animation of the door sliding open automatically, the center going transparent.
Re: Opportunity for true evil. (Score:2)
You know humans have stereoscopic vision and glass has some glare to it, right?
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Are you sure? [youtube.com]
Back in the day (Score:2)
Back in the day, my father-in-law reversed the opening of the glass door on the back of his house. My wife and I were visiting and she walked right into the glass door where the opening used to be.
How is that a flamebait? (Score:2)
Who exactly would be offended by that? And by what?
It's a funny movie reference and a bit of wisdom imI learned and want to pass on.
Did somebody not actually even read the comment?
Because what we *really* need... (Score:2)
This would be the first door displayed! (Score:1)
Doors could be used to show ads (Score:1)
Open the door, HAL (Score:2)
What could go wrong???