Sharp Developing LCD Screens In Almost Any Shape

jfruh writes: Traditional LCD panels are rectangular because the tiny chips that drive each pixel of the display are fitted along the edge of the glass panel on which the screen is made. But in a new breed of screens from Sharp, the chips are embedded between the pixels so that means a lot more freedom in screen shape: only one edge of the screen needs to be a straight line, which could give rise to a host of new applications.

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The Simpson Special

[Applehu Akbar]

This would be for dedicated sports fans: a spherical LCD with the screen on the inside surface. The user would enter the sphere through a small hatch (which would also be a screen on the inside) and go out on a catwalk to the center of the sphere where his strap-in, gimbleable, joystick-controlled La-Z-Boy would be. Game on, total immersion!

His family would never see him agains.

Re:What shape would you like

[aardvarkjoe]

The gauges I've been looking at sell for between $100-$300 EACH,...so if I could avoid spending $1600 for a full set of gauges by going digital, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

Somehow, I suspect that the same people that are able to convince you to spend $300 on a premium analog gauge are going to be able to sell you a $300 digital version just as easily.