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Coming Soon(ish) From LG: Transparent, Rollup Display
jfruh (300774) writes Korean electronics manufacturer LG has shown off experimental, see-through, roll-up displays, paper thin and flexible and capable of letting through about 30% of the light that strikes it. The company is eager to sell the concept and promises it'll be arriving soon, though they've shown of similar (though less capable) technology over the past few years and have yet to bring any products to market.
of the flexible semitransparent display?
...broadcasting beautiful scenery 24 hours a day, on a window near you.
What this world is coming to - is for you and me to decide.
soon. please?
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The rollable display sports a 1200x810 resolution with nearly 1 million megapixels.
I just wish my bank did that sort of math...
Scuttlebutt's there's a transparent roll-up display coming soon since, what? Around 2004? Maybe even a bit earlier. OLEDs were supposed to deliver them back in the day. And yet here we are 10 years later, still no transparent roll-up display. Doesn't seem like this should be as hard as a flying car, and yet they both share the same status. I'm sure this one will be different though...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
As one semi famous football player once said. For Who? For What? BTW Can any sports fan guess who said it?
Jack of all trades,master of none
..the appeal of a transparent display?
So I can see what's behind the display? As if we don't have enough issues with sunlight reflecting from display surfaces, now we're going to let the light coming from *behind* the display further reduce its readability?
Didn't their market research branch let them know that this has no widespread practical use and nobody wants this? What is the motivation to replace my monitor with this? For an ultra-thin cell phone, it has major piercing damage risk issues. I just don't see this taking off. It's like making a smart watch just because you can but conveniently forgetting that nobody wants one.
- Real head's up displays...cars, motorcycle helmets, etc.
- Leela's arm-puter.
- Entire glass walls that double as giant displays...like Tony Stark's house.
and on and on...
Do what.
Holy mother of God!!!!!!!!!!!
How does this make porn better?
I can see this as the next Google Glass as sunglasses or at least a wearable monitor.
Coming from, where else? Hint: not Apple, but close...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Does that mean something like, minimum radius?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Oh, maybe hang it on a wall if you desire privacy? Maybe even have a wall built that is almost exactly the same size as the monitor sheet and have some sort of lighting in it.
The fashion industry will be gaga over this. Consider being able to claim "my bra has been hacked" when exploiting indecent exposure for publicity.
It's been "coming soon" for nearly 5 years now. They talk about these sorts of displays every year, offer all kinds of compelling demos and then never do anything with it.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
...capable of letting through about 30% of the light that strikes it.
Does this mean I can finally see my office mate, who is sitting opposite to my desk?
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
This year we get flexible displays ... and with equal probability the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup.
Promises ... promises
"Consensus" in science is _always_ a political construct.
Also, there's the unavoidable problem you have with display clarity. Right now screens are on a flat substrate, and so each pixel is aligned with the next one, which reproduces an image accurately. But what happens when you have an unrolled display sitting on your desk, or held in your hand? It will inevitably be have varying levels of curve along it's length and possibly more complex crumples, resulting in poor image accuracy. Fixing that will require some clever sensors embedded in the display along with some expensive signal processing, and that fix will STILL cost you resolution.
Then when you consider that LG's current flexible displays have poor color rendition and contrast, along with piss-poor resolution, you realize how much of a lost cause this is. I cannot see myself giving up the best qualities of modern displays so that they break a little less often, and can fit in a smaller pocket.
Man is the animal that laughs.
And occasionally whores for Karma.
LG Display used high molecular substance-based polyimide film as the backplane of the flexible panel instead of conventional plastic to achieve the maximum curvature radius.
As somebody who studies polymers, that sentence is a failure by the author to understand the science, on so many levels...
I don't know where to begin but I should start by pointing out that those polyimides are probably plastics below some temperature. Also spoiler alert, they will have problems making it any thinner, and problems with overheating, and problems if you try to use it in the Antartic (Also possibly Canada). Also the manufacturing techniques will be problematic as well. Normal nano imprint lithography will probably have a very high defect rate due to confinement effects. And if they aren't in the region of problems with confinement yet they will be soon enough.
If I could only get a 7 or 8-inch tablet with a screen that could be unrolled (and maybe unfolded) to say 16 by 10 inches, I'd be in techietoy heaven. No more squinting at tiny webpage displays, no more squinting at 6-point font displays of books,... you get the idea.
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Why is it women who are showing off the product?
Surely they were not involved in the design of this technology.