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Nanoresonators Create Ultra-High-Res Displays

Posted by Soulskill on from the don't-tell-crytek dept.

TuurlijkNiet writes with this excerpt from Linux for Devices: "Eat your heart out, 'Retina display.' A new technology unveiled yesterday will allow creating pixels eight times smaller than the ones on Apple's iPhone 4, eliminate the need for polarizer layers, and allow screens to make much more efficient use of available light, say University of Michigan researchers. ... The pixels in the nanoresonator displays are about ten times smaller than those on a typical computer screen, and about eight times smaller than the pixels on the iPhone 4, which are about 78 microns, according to Guo. Such pixel densities could make the technology useful in projection displays, as well as wearable, bendable or extremely compact displays, according to the researchers."

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  1. "Eight times smaller"? by Necreia · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Perhaps I'm understanding this wrong, but wouldn't "One Eight the Size" make a lot more sense? Having something 'times smaller' would suggest a difference in size being multiplied, and not fixed size.

  2. Re:i never know what that means... by dissy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Initially I want to take it as 1/8th the size, but "8 times" would indicate multiplication is involed...

    Well, X * 0.125 would give the answer you seek using multiplication :P