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Paintable LCDs

Posted by michael on from the semi-gloss-or-eggshell dept.

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.

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  1. Obligatory Joke by SplendidIsolatn · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?"

    Lets see...
    Front of pants, PKUnZip
    Back of pants, DownloadAccelerator
    options are endless....

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    sig--we don't need no goddamn sig
  2. Where would you put your apps? by isa-kuruption · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just a general rule, I would recommend not placing any M$ product near your anus.

  3. Re:LCD Suit... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but your wife's butt only has one hole...

  4. LCD suit would be the perfect camoflauge by mister7 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There are military contractor already on this one, but they're using flat panels. A camera could capture the image behind you and project that image on the front part of your 'suit'. Doesn't need to be a sharp, perfectly aligned image either. Just get the color and intensity right. The US Army already wants this one...--> http://www.aro.army.mil/phys/Nanoscience/sec4nano. htm

  5. Re:Not new. Imagine a roll-up screen. by Drachemorder · · Score: 5, Funny
    Now imagine a paint-on wall-size screen.

    "I told you never to call me on this wall! This is an unlisted wall!"