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'Computer-On-Glass' Display

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the good-enough-to-lick dept.

bfries writes "Sharp Corp, Japan's largest maker of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), unveiled a screen Tuesday with microprocessor circuitry applied directly onto the glass, enabling it to function like a computer. It uses Sharp's continuous grain silicon (CGS) technology and should be used on some products in 2005."

6 of 212 comments (clear)

  1. Cool... by Gruneun · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just remind me to be excited again in three years. It's interesting, but not really news until there's, at the least, something to look at.

    1. Re:Cool... by BlueUnderwear · · Score: 4, Insightful

      So I guess, by looking at the rate the dupes are posted, we should see that computer in two weeks...

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      Say no to software patents.
  2. How's it look. by FreeLinux · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm curious about how these screens look. One of the issues with LCD is the screens appearance. They are often hard to view unless at a precise angle, if you wear glasses, especially polarized glasses, they are even harder to view. Touch screen films make them harder still to view and now they are embedding the actual circuitry in the display. What's the viewing like?

  3. Digital Photos by Jezza · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well they're talking about ultra-high resolutions for things like photographs, and maps. Of course this is going to need huge storage and processing abiliy if they're going to reporduce photographic quality on anything larger than a really small display. I'm guessing that the display would probably be most useful if it could dynamically change resolution perhaps displaying several resolutions at once, to combine video (HDTV perhaps) a computer output at a "normal resolution" (90dpi or so) and a photo quality section (say 300dpi or better).

    The abiliy to offload some of the processing on the display would be very helpful. I can see that being a very useful display. Still the idea of storage on the display sounds like Minority Report to me. Very cool.

  4. Didn't look like you could use as a display by CutterDeke · · Score: 5, Insightful
    In the picture with the article, you could see the traces on the glass. Do they not show up when this is incorporated into a display?

    I don't see the significance of this.

  5. Re:Brain fart... by Gruneun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Heat must escape somewhere.

    My suggestion was meant to be more along the lines of the water-cooling (with a radiator) that is popular among the overclocking crowd, not just a static pool of water. A display like this could be mounted on a wall, with the pump and radiator in a separate location, connected by a hose.