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New LCD Flatscreen Concept: A Wedge of Plastic
SimianOverlord writes "The Register reports on an innovation in the field of flat panel LCD screens that promises cheaper screens with the same quality using existing manufacturing technology. A Flat Projection Display is created by bouncing light into a thin wedge of plastic from the bottom of the screen, at just the correct angle to allow the rebounded light to escape at the correct pixel. "We have to play around with the image to make sure that the pixels don't bunch up" explained Prof. Travis, the inventor. "If you don't do that the image can appear a little like an image reflected off water" The new technology has already attracted interest from a major TV maker, but don't expect them in your laptop until projector minaturization catches up."
I wonder if this could work with HUD or for display injection into a pair of glasses? That would be neat - to have the image in your glasses / windscreen!
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Anyone else picturing all their pixels sliding down to the corner of the screen in a pink mess..?
If I had a dime for every new display technology (or other kind of cool technologies) that gets in the papers, I could go to the same clubs of Warren Buffet. But if I had it for the technologies that actually reach me as a consumer, I could barely buy a film ticket, depending on city.
I don't know exactly why it is but it's a fact. I'm thinking of making a list. It may make for funny reading ten years from now.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
You might call this a prism. The concept of bouncing light off of the inside edge of a prism is what happens in the pentaprism mirror inside a slr camera.
The big advantage that I can see with this is that a reasonable quality plastic wedge/prism should be much cheaper to replace when it gets damaged. I'm sure the initial cost will still be high, but the expensive stuff can be a little more protected.
eric
However, the pdf has some nice pictures and a more details of how it works.
Cheap silicon wins again -- it's been supplanting copper, now optics.
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." --Napoleon Bonaparte
A prominent female fashion guru has just announced his new master piece, a dress made with 'Flat Projection Display' as it's only fabric.
"With it, ladies all over may customise their clothing with any pattern or picture they want", beamed the millionaire dressmaker.
However, he declined comment on what would happen to the otherwise transparent dress after it's power supply, rated for 23 minutes of use, failed.
Sometimes I wish I was a plumber, then I'd know how to deal with other people's shit.
I read a funny review of the Z88 a long time ago. The Z88 had a small LCD display "bought from the Japanese", but that was the result of an epic battle inside Sinclair. Clive Sinclair himself was quoted as saying "LCD's are rubbish, we have the only real portable display technology". This was based on the Sinclair pocket TV, which bent electron beams through 90 degrees with a big magnet. The journalist writing the review said that he saw a demonstration and "you placed your chin on a rest, and saw a ghostly green four lines of twenty characters floating in the infinite distance."
There was a memorable conversation with Alan Sugar who bought the Sinclair
Reviewer: Do you have the rights to the Pandora display?
AS: We have the rights to all the Sinclair patents
R: Do you plan any products based on Pandora?
AS: Have you seen it?
R: Yes.
AS: Well then.
Oddly, no Pandora based products were ever produced.
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