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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?
- 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.
I think their market research branch must have forgotten to consult you, and may have accidentally focused on companies that have been waiting for this stuff for ages and will give them pots of money for it.
Sunglasses, windows, motorcycle visors, car HUDs, "open plan" office cubicles (though that'd be a mistake, it would be a mistake enough people would make to justify putting it on the market).
You can roll it up into a cylinder and then... Well, you get the idea.
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!”
Hah! Nobody expects the Terapixel Revolution.
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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.
In college my tech Professor asked when we would expect to abandon paper as a reading device, I said when the resolution is indistinguishable and I can roll it up and put it in my pocket, this was around 1992. He offered the opinion it was only 10 years out - there were reports of flexible lcd's even back then. e-Ink screens made me nervous for a while but I'm still clinging to my dead tree novels for now.
This is a good sign. If someone's showing you technology every year and it's gradually getting bigger and better and eventually starts showing up in products (like LG's TVs) then it's a science and engineering problem that's being advanced. If someone's showing you a technology that never existed before and it's suddenly a whole product, it often means it's so premature it's going to fail and better products will climb over its still-warm corpse towards success, or that it's a scam.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
...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.
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.