Paintable LCDs

frambooz writes "Nature Magazine has an article about a team from the Eindhoven University of Technology and Philips Research Laboratories in the Netherlands, who discovered a way to create 1 layer paintable LCD-screens. It can be used on glass and plastic already, and fabric in the near future. 'Homes of the future could change their wallpaper from cream to cornflower blue at the touch of a button, says Dirk Broer. His team has developed paint-on liquid crystal displays (LCDs) that offer the technology. (...) The technique could create giant TV screens, digital billboards and walls that change colour. Slim, plastic LCDs sewn into fabric could display e-mail or text messages on your sleeve.' Which leads to another problem: with an LCD-suit, where would you put which app?" There's also an AP article.

Comments

What happens during a power outage?

[Anonymous Coward]

will your brand sparkly wallpaper just turn black?

Re:I know what I would do...

[Dephex Twin]

Well, as far as distortion, I don't think this would solve it.

Let's say you have an image on your front and it matches up with what's behind you. I'm looking at you from straight ahead. Now you move your right leg forward towards me. Either that distorts the image on your leg (as it is now angled), or there is some complex mechanism that can account for all body movements and provide the reverse of this distortion in order to cancel it out and make it look normal from head on.

That's kind of tough to explain, did it make sense?

Not to mention the fact that I would have to be looking at you from head on.

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