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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."
Will this open the possibility for 3D tv using multiple transparant layers?
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Or perhaps the multi-channel edition where you have a book with 100 pages: every page is another chanel. Nice and convenient during the commecial breaks
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Weave this bad boy into a full body suit, mount micro cameras throughout, project the image seen behind.
Voila! Predator. From twenty feet or so, anyway.
If your bitterest enemies are people who hack the heads off civilians, then I would say you're doing something right.
Just add a roll-up keyboard and you almost have one. Not sure about the mouse or CPU...
...for this technology.
Cheap HUDs for autos (Heads Up Display) and bike helmets is an obvious application.
Televisions everywhere. (Okay, this could really suck; who wants to see ads for Cheer everywhere you go.)
And the big one: Wrap-around, full vision wearble displays. Granted, I'm stretching here, but one can dream, eh?
If this technology really works well, it could solve a great many problems associated with computer displays (size, heat generation, cost, etc.)
Lot's of really cool technology coming soon, makes the current despond somewhat more tolerable.
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I doubt that a roll-up tv screen or monitor will ever be practical. Firstly, every pixel will have to be driven and that requires an electical connection. A 1024 X 768 will require atleast 786,433 electical contections, and wires made of metal. I expect serious problems with metal-fatigue induced conductor fractures, for roll-up displays. I'll admit that the ribbon cable inside a printer goes through a lot but it doesn't have a quarter of a million conductors either.
This has a lot of cool potential applications, but roll-up displayed will not be marketable
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I think I'd like one of a Penguin stomping on MS HQ...
Better still, if the material could be made thin enough and safe to implant under the skin you could have animated tattoos you could reprogram at will.
(I'd go for a penguin stomping on MS HQ again)
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One of the other pretty cool technologies being developed by the guys at Plastic Logic (a spin off company created by the same people from Cambridge University who formed CDT) is the ability to create full electronic devices by using an inkjet printer loaded with a cartridge of these conductive polymers. It would be pretty cool to be able to see a useful device on a web page, download the circuit, print it out of your inkjet and then have the working device straight away.
I've been dreaming of my ultimate portable for some time, and this - roll-up screens - was all that was missing. I have a roll-up waterproof keyboard that works quite well. Imagine the guts of a notebook PC (no CD, keyboard, screen), a kind of brick the size of a stack of CDs. Fits into your pocket. You can add a flat battery underneath for portable use. You can plug in a roll-up screen and keyboard when you're on the road. At the office you dock it into your main notebook or desktop - synchronizing all your data, updating your email, etc.
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The first one we'll see will be the sort that is more or less permanently installed, and can therefore be plugged into the wall all or some of the time.
That's what I want. I mean, ActiveDesktop is cool, and all, and I've got webcams and wether reports and traffic cameras and the like on my desktop, but at any given moment maybe 90% of my screen is covered with windows. And if I were to hook up a third monitor, I'd want to use it as more desktop space, not as a permanent "information poster."
But, if I could have a 3x2 foot "poster" hanging on the wall of my office, plugged into the USB port on the computer, and feed data to it, then that'd be great. I could put up webcams, stock tickers, anything that'd be interesting to see but not important enough to keep in a foreground window.
It'd be great to be able to simply glance up and say "ugh, traffic's getting bad, I'd better head home soon."
So, where do I sign up?
A number of the comments here about advertising and the proliferation of displays reminded me of Minority Report. Everywhere the characters went were advertising displays - wrapped around the walls of stores and malls, moving billboards, even animated cereal boxes (John Anderton angrily tosses one aside after being bothered by the distraction at one point). Obviously Spielberg has the same vision of the future as many of you.
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http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/f lat_speakers010418.html
They've been working on them for a while now.
It'll be really interesting when they manage to bundle the paper thin speakers, the paper thin monitor, embedded solar cells, and wireless networking all together into a single paper-thin sheet. Then you basically have a multimedia device that you can take and hang just about anywhere. And you thought telephone poles in the major cities were bad now... Just wait till they all play slide shows and video footage of someone's missing animal while playing sad music to tug on your heartstrings, beamed from said person's house nearby...
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Why would I want a roll-up TV screen? Ever since I moved my 4 computers out of my living room and into the second bedroom, my living room has appeared empty. Now I'm supposed to roll-up my TV when I'm done watching? Maybe if it's on remote control, but otherwise, forget it. I like it the way it is.
I like the "Maps in the field" kinda thing, though. Kinda like Red Planet.
It's kinda cool watching some things from Sci-Fi come to reality. I just wish they'd get working on the damn holodeck. Talk about the ultimate in addictions. I'd never leave.
Now you go and take this stuff and combine it with the See-Through, Paper-Thin Speakers and you've got your media where ever you go.
Just makes me wonder how long it's going to be until movies are made from a central perspective, like IMAX in your home.
At the very least it should be a cheaper method for bringing those remaining 34,940 movie theatres into the digital age
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