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Apple's All-Seeing Screen

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-leave-this-on-by-accident dept.

Based on a recent patent we may be seeing a new kind of display coming from the Apple store in the near future, one that can capture images as well as display them. From the article: "The clever idea is to insert thousands of microscopic image sensors in-between the liquid crystal display cells in the screen. Each sensor captures its own small image, but software stitches these together to create a single, larger picture."

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  1. Owell by greysky · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Apple was the company that spoofed Orwell's 1984, and it looks like this technology is a mirror image of his "telescreens". Let's just hope that they aren't used for the purposes Orwell envisioned.

  2. Big Brother @ home by jonfr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is Apple going to call this new monitor Big Brother @ home ?

  3. Newspeaking by tktk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Faceconferencing doubleplusgood.

  4. Re:Ministry of Truth by quanticle · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And I'm surprised that you aren't up on your lessons. The correct phrase is "Ignorance is Strength".

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  5. If you stare into the Apple long enough... by monopole · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...the Apple stares back at you

  6. For the really paranoid... by shmlco · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Now the real question: Is the patent for a future technology... or is it already implemented?

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