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New Research Could Lead to Transparent Displays
An anonymous reader tipped us to a ScienceDaily story about advances that may lead to transparent transistors. By combining inorganic and organic materials, we may reach the goal of transparent surfaces that can display information, with no visible wiring marring the effect. The article cites HUDs on car windshields, and targeting goggles for soldiers, but I'm sure we can think of some additional interesting uses for such a technology. From the article: "High-performance, transparent transistors could be combined with existing kinds of light display technologies, such as organic light-emitting diodes, liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and electroluminescent displays, which are already used in televisions, desktop and laptop computers and cell phones ... Prototype displays using the transistors developed at Northwestern could be available in 12 to 18 months, said Marks. He has formed a start-up company, Polyera, to bring this and related technologies to market."
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Three very known and legitimate versions of your 3 "useless" objects. Just because something is an oxymoron, doesn't make it stupid
There is a bunch of concepts for how to use the transparent displays. Most of all I like this: http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/eye-freezing-futur e-imac-concept/ May be it will become true some time soon....
Think more along the lines of a window that doubles as a display. Not only does it save energy, but it makes for much better integration of technology in the household, or anywhere else for that matter.
If I were your wife, I'd be less concerned about the display disappearing and more concerned about my electric bikini frying me when I go into the water.
Actually, strike that. I'd be most concerned about the fact that you bought me a pair of television screens to use as a swimsuit.
Some attitudes replaced or by cgi optimizes
I think it may be the same guy who was trying to start a rumour that the average computer used the equivalent half a container ship of coal to run each day.
'For we walk by faith, not by sight.' II Corinthians 5:7
I don't think anyone would want to use one of these as a HUD by simply gluing them to the windscreen. If that were the case, the user would have to change between focusing an object only 2 feet away, and focusing the road, at least ten times as far away. With this, a large part of the advantage of HUDs would be lost, namely that the displayed data becomes part of the scene by appearing to hover a few yards away.
Stack about 30 or so transparent displays on top of each other and create a true 3-D display - albeit limited in number of layers of depth to the number of screens. Anyone with a 30-head video card for me? :)
MadCow.
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Yeah it's a bit like when you first tried transparent terms. Eterm in my case (pause for a bit of nostalgia). Really really cool looking. But actually using it was less wonderful. Sadly transparent terms are not a good idea, even with tinting. 'Cept for showing off your OS ... definitely a winner with chicks.
Bitter and proud of it.
The inside of my dive mask, to show up the data on my dive computer? There is something like it which uses the edges of the mask, but this would be better.
Hmmm... what if we could stack sheets of these together? Hello 3-dimensional television?