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Samsung Develops a Transparent OLED Laptop Screen

Posted by Soulskill on from the harder-to-hide-your-mmo-habit-from-the-boss dept.

Dyne09 writes "The Design blog has posted an entry on Samsung's new laptop with a transparent OLED screen. The photos show a dark-tinted and dimly-lit screen that is fully see-through. While the utility of a see-through laptop probably isn't that high for the average user, several medical and industrial industries could greatly augment design work or frame 3-D models over real life in real-time."

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  1. Transparent OLED isn't new by Karganeth · · Score: 2, Informative

    However, sticking it on a laptop is.

  2. Re:Realistic Uses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    It would be great to get a screen on the lenses of my sunglasses

    Uh? Move your face next to your screen as close as you wear sunglasses. Do you see anything? Your eyes just can't focus on a screen this close. For this to work you need retinal projection, not a screen.

  3. It's not transparent! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's translucent. It if were transparent then it would be clear, instead it's like a dark tinted piece of glass which isn't that easy to see through if you ask me.

    1. Re:It's not transparent! by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 3, Informative

      It's translucent. It if were transparent then it would be clear, instead it's like a dark tinted piece of glass which isn't that easy to see through if you ask me.

      No, translucency prevents seeing details through the medium, such as the glass you'd use in a bathroom window which allows light to pass through but scatters the photons preventing seeing detail. Transparency is a sliding scale, which can allow various levels of light through or even only certain wavelengths (colors) from 100% clear transparent to nearly opaque.

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  4. Re:Realistic Uses by VinylPusher · · Score: 3, Informative

    You noticed the depth of those head-mounted displays? Needed due to all the optics focussing the image into your eyeball (because you're eyes can't manage it due to aforementioned closeness).

  5. 1995 calling... by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 4, Informative

    IBM ThinkPad 755CV had a transparent LCD display (VGA resolution) around 1995. It could be detached from the laptop, and placed on an overhead projector, for making PowerlessPointless-style presentations. This was in the days before projectors were common.

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  6. Re:also by serutan · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's a great idea. Adding an information display to something that needs to be transparent, like a car windshield, seems like a much better application than making something transparent that shouldn't be, like a laptop screen. I'm surprised Samsung didn't learn anything from the public's reaction to transparent GUI windows. They're kind of cool as a novelty for about 5 minutes, but nobody really wants to use them.