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Light-Emitting Polymer Displays
BlackSol writes "Yahoo is covering a very cool piece on the development of roll-up screens. Possible uses from home televisions, to tele-watches, and military uses such as real-time satalite fed maps in the field."
"People are talking about weaving displays into clothing. Will there ever be a mass market for that? I doubt it. But it will probably be seized on by someone." :)
Well, as long as it's a touch screen, I'm happy
{and slowly a song from the Who sets in: See me, feel me, touch me...}
I could wrap my pr0n around me......
the obnoxious ceareal box animations...
There are many uses for this in areas with political instability. Now instead of having to go through the problem of making new flags and banners every time an area changes hands, you can just have one of these up each flag pole, and just change the image as the situation warrents. I can see applications for this on the west bank / parts of Africa already.
Salesperson - We have this lovely floral design...
Spork - Digital.
Salesperson - This one comes in great pastel colors.
Spork - Digital.
Salesperson - Damn it! The morons in electronics get the commisions for digital wallpaper! Buy the damn Pastel!
Spork backs slowly away.
With my dying breath, I curse Zoidberg!
. . . military uses such as real-time satellite fed maps in the field.
Better make sure those satellite connections are really secure:
"All right, men, the enemy stronghold is dead ahead. Charge!"
[ten minutes later] "Uh, Sarge, we must have gotten turned around somehow, now it's directly behind us."
[fifteen minutes later] "Now it's saying we're in South-Central L.A. Stick together, men."
that most geeks being blinded by doing some other thing... :)
can someone post some information on these satalites mentioned in the article.. sounds interesting.
Alas, Babylon.
"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
"I think we'll see a lot of innovation," said Fyfe. "People are talking about weaving displays into clothing. Will there ever be a mass market for that? I doubt it. But it will probably be seized on by someone."
So I'll finally get to shag someone in an AOL-style video-minidress - mmm, ohh...
Chuck Norris: Socialism == a thousand years of darkness.
Speaking of such things, imagine if someone hacked in to your t-shirt. How long would it take before someone told you that you had goatse dot cx on your back?
My deviantArt site
I'd love to have something like that .
Play video clips, etc.
Jesus used to be my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him.
I'd love to buy a roll of TV, change the channel to WB, and then use it as TP.
Who knows? that could displace Nielson ratings!
Change the appearance of large items at will - make your house 'look' scary on Halloween, Waving flags and fireworks on the 4th. Give your house a stone wall, garden, or 'trees'. Make your house 'transparent' or 'invisible' for parties, exhibitionism or to get 'away'! (Screens on both inside and coutside of course.) Change 'wallpaper' at whim, decorate by era, place, or fetish. Make your apartment look like its huge! Play a 'real' game of quake, or nethack!
Your car could be a different color every day, or adapt 'styling features' (camo trucks for hunters or the army) 'fake' turbo for all the Rice-Boys out there.
Put 'windows' to the outside world or made up world in your office or cube. Your 'desktop' could be your desktop! Video conferencing could be far more personal, and body language would become useful.
A VR Holodeck of sorts could be be possible, embed into all surfaces in a room.
One *real book - any book contained within!
Graffitti could become an accepted artform. Leave it there a week and then *poof*
Learn to dance with the 'magic' footprints appearing at the proper times and positions.
The Hoover dam could be the biggest theater in the world!
Of course, by the time this comes to pass, the **AAs will probably have legislated that a user cannot view these screens without pervasive advertising. The Hoover dam will play McDonalds and Disney commercials 7 out of 8 hours, some 'Avatar' will follow you around offering product suggestions every two minutes, and someone will get pissed at you for something and hack your house, car and t-shirt to show goatse.cx at random intervals.
Don't want to think about that on the Hoover dam
"Weave this bad boy into a full body suit..."
TELETUBBIES!
No, these are the displays of tomorrow. So, you better get up early and get that digital newspaper before the neighbor's dog does his business on it.
Polymer or otherwise, light-emission sure is a nice feature for a display :-)
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