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LCD Screens Almost Paper-thin
DarklordSatin writes "Nature.com has an article up about new LCDs that are thin enough to roll up and can display black and white at 96 dpi. More coverage by Wired and Scientific American. Thanks go to Arstechnica for the heads up." Wow. Let the speculation for new uses begin! Update: 05/10 14:59 GMT by CN : Whoops, this is really a dupe of an older story that slipped through because I only searched for LCDs. Ah well, it's still cool.
Are going to be destroyed every day for newspapers?
Save the Electronic Rainforest!
One can only imagine the bragging rights you'd have smoking a 32-bit True Color blunt...
Now I'll have to wear my glasses when I go to the can or I might accidently wipe my arse with my LCD display.
Trolling is a art,
Similar technology could even make clothes that double as video screens
New! Look bigger in jeans!
What use? PORN offcourse, what else?
We know we're finally in an information age when we can start leaving technology in the bathroom...
At night it would turn into little moons and stars.
In the morning it would reflect what the weather is like.
Hmmm... that already happens in my room! OH! My mistake, I left the curtains open.
This would be so cool on a door mat. Set up a CCTV system that scanned a person's face when they rang your doorbell. If they're a friend the doormat LCD says "Welcome!". If it's a pair of guys in white shirts with ties and name tags then the doormat displays "Bug off!"
"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers." Carl Sagan
This would need a display that refreshed itself every 15 milliseconds. The new screen currently takes around a quarter of a second.
The best use I can think of is to give these out to all my competitors at the next LAN party. Then I will reign supreme despite my limited skillz and total lack of eye-hand coordination.
I hope they add an alpha channel to those!
in that iLoo (or whatever the hell that portapottie with connection to the net was called). cruise the net, look at pr0n and then fold it up and wipe your ass.
I've invented a paper-thin material than can support an INFINITE number of dots per inch! It's dirt cheap and uses exisiting technology!
Oh wait, that's just some paper I had lying around...
Forget the LCDs - the real story here is that a Slashdot editor made an attempt to prevent dupes. ;-)