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New Display Technology to Compete with LCDs?

Posted by michael on from the unwelcome-comparisons-to-iridium dept.

NetRanger writes "C|Net's News.com has a really interesting article to a new display technology that is based on interference of light patterns. The company, Iridigm, has a very compelling case for why their display method is far superior to LCD, including far brighter displays, far less power consumption... but the cool this is that the display actually works like RAM (it retains its state until voltage is applied to reset it) -- so what do you see when the driver crashes?"

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  1. Light interference for display tech? by PhysicsGenius · · Score: -1, Troll
    Ummmm...OK. Well, let's think about this for a second.

    Light travels as waves, right? When two waves cross or meet at the same place, interference occurs. The interference can create light or dark spots if the light is monochromatic. If there are different wavelengths (==colors) involved the light and dark spots may be different colors depending one which waves interfered in what way at a particular point. This must be the idea they are basing their display on.

    Unfortunately, I think /. has been trolled. The amount of interference that occurs depends on the distance the waves travel. So if you move your head a little bit, the entire screen changes. "A little bit" is going to be a significant fraction of a wavelenght, call it a few femtometers. I don't know about you, but I don't think I can hold that still.

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  4. bad joke - pls mod offtopic by SubtleNuance · · Score: 1, Troll

    so what do you see when the driver crashes

    In my best whispery-2001 voice: "My God, its full of stars".

    no this is not funny, had to share anyway.