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New Uses For LCD Technology

Posted by Zonk on from the see-how-it-looks dept.

HaggiZ writes "A design student from the University of New South Wales has developed a postcard with a built-in camera and LCD display. As the article states, you simply snap the photos and send it to your loved ones and 'they tear open the perforations, fold out a little kick stand on the back and sit it on a bench top. Then it's as simple as pressing a button and it will go through a slide show of images.' I also found these credit cards with build in LCD displays. It sounds like the perfect solution for credit card fraud, with the card generating a One Time Password for each transaction."

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  1. It's not built yet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The industrial designs student has only came up with the idea of a disposable camera that can be used as a post-card.

    1. Re:It's not built yet by PaulBu · · Score: 2, Informative

      As a matter of fact, after I moved from LA to Vancouver, Canada I was quite impressed by the fact that half of the urinals in the city are outfitted with a color LCD panel showing ads... So yes, that one IS available!

      Paul B.

  2. Hmmm... by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Informative
    The palm-sized camera-cum-postcard, housed in a cardboard shell with a two-megapixel lens, a 10-centimetre screen, digital memory and an internal battery, would cost about $25.
    Kudos to the kid for his invention, but FYI, when you have 'cheap' digital cameras, it means they're skimping on the lens.

    Good photographers don't need expensive cameras, they use expensive lenses.

    But since the idea includes a slideshow, I think it would be worth producing. Especially since CCDs, LCDs and RAM are dirt cheap when ordered in production quantites.
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  3. Re:Ooooh... by MoonBuggy · · Score: 3, Informative

    The article estimates $25, but that's probably Aussie dollars which converts to ~£10 or ~US$18.

  4. Re:Ooooh... by RESPAWN · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's the link to the patent: http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/38/apple-integrated-sen sing-display

    Sounds like an interesting technology that I would one day like to see developed.

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  5. Re:cc fraud by dougjm · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can have the best sig in the world on paper but when you try and wite it on that wee strip of writable plastic on the card it never comes out right, so your signature is always a bit different on card versus paper. At the checkout the last thing that the person on the till is going to do is question you if the way you crossed the T looks a bit out of place - especialy, as you say, for £4.50/$8 an hour.

    Thats why when my bank started to offer their cash cards with the signature laser printed on under the protective plastic i was very impressed - not only because the box you had to sign in on the form was large enough to write in but because they also lasered on my photograph too. So if you don't look like me it doesn't matter how well you forge my signature!

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  6. Re:It's not built yet (Thinking Out Of The Box) by UpLateDrinkingCoffee · · Score: 2, Informative
    good thing he's a industrial designs student cuz he'd make a crappy business man.
    There can be a lot of value in exploring ideas that on the surface seem unworkable... for example, someone like you comes along, tweaks it a little bit, and builds the next big thing. Just ask yourself: Would you have come up with the idea above without this student's idea to build on? His "crappy business idea" was your spark and my guess is you never would have given post cards a second thought without it as a catalyst. He deserves praise, not belittlement.

    Innovation is not an act, it's a process.