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Coming Soon(ish) From LG: Transparent, Rollup Display

Posted by Unknown on from the animated-wall-paper dept.

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.

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  1. Almost a million megapixels! by by+(1706743) · · Score: 3, Funny
    From TFA, so it must be true:

    The rollable display sports a 1200x810 resolution with nearly 1 million megapixels.

    I just wish my bank did that sort of math...

  2. Can someone explain... by brantondaveperson · · Score: 2

    ..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?

    1. Re:Can someone explain... by tralfaz2001 · · Score: 2

      Duh. Just think how easy it will be to change your desktop background. With one of these all you would need to do is change the poster you placed behind your display with a different poster.

  3. Re:Could this be the year by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 2

    What year did Earth: Final Conflict come out?

    --
    "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
  4. Re: As one semi famous football player by genotype · · Score: 2

    Ricky Watters, Eagles

  5. Re:Could this be the year by JMJimmy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1997 and I so want a Global Communicator.

  6. Re:The Weather Channel by JMJimmy · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...broadcasting beautiful ads 24 hours a day, on a window near you.

    Fixed

  7. Re:Uses: by fizzer06 · · Score: 2

    I'm thinking the display could roll up inside of an ink pen like a spring loaded window roller shade. Some enterprising genius could also implement sensors to reproduce script written on paper by the pen to the screen. I'm dreaming of a lot of possibilities.

  8. Re:Porn? by freeze128 · · Score: 2

    You can roll it up into a cylinder and then... Well, you get the idea.

  9. Re: Could this be the year by demonrob · · Score: 2

    that's cos you're looking right through it. You are part of the 30 percent!