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Even Tinier SVGA Color Display

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the its-so-cute dept.

erlkonig writes "For those intrigued by tiny displays, Colorado Microdisplay crams 800x600 into a 1.2cm diagonal, under 1g device. Jump straight to the blurb or just look at the pretty pictures. Remember, to get the little chunk of connectors out of the way, you can always mount it (or them) upside-down in your hat brim :-) " How close can the eye reasonably focus on things? That looks pretty nifty, but 800x600 at 1.2cm is gonna have to be real close to those retinas. Still nifty looking.

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  1. Practical Applcations? by gavinhall · · Score: 3

    Posted by DonR:

    Great. Before lusers could talk on their car phone while driving. Soon they'll be able to look at their porn while driving. Darwinization at its best.


    ---
    Donald Roeber

  2. More useful than it might seem by irongull · · Score: 4

    Check out the specs on the webpage - its actually kinda cool. Lenses in the viewer make a larger virtual image than the screen. The eye can't focus on anything that close without these lenses. It has a 26 degree field of view - that corresponds to a monitor 11 inches in diagonal viewed from 2 feet away. Not great, but certainly useful. And very readable. Additionally, each pixel transmits different levels of red, green, and blue, rather than having three separate pixels for each color. That probably makes for very good image quality. As far as only seeing it through one eye...while this is not ideal, it is also very doable. Microscopes have been like this for years. Of course, stero microscopes are more popular these days, as they allow more detail and reduce eye strain, but it is possible to see very well through just one eye. The trick is to keep the other eye open and focused like the eye looking into the eyepiece, but focus your attention on the image. It is even possible to shift your attention between the two images - useful for taking notes and looking at a magnified image without moving your head.

  3. Higher Resolution by Bryan+Andersen · · Score: 3
    Microdisplay has 1024x768 displays and just introduced an evaluation kit for $2000 on their 800x600 display that can be operated for three hours from AA batteries. See their press releases for further detials.

    Displaytech has reflective LCDs with 1280x1024 resolution. Originally designed for projection systems, but they are small enough to be used in a HUD system. PDFs can be found off of their products page. They also have developers kits.

    Things are really heating up in the microdisplay industry. Especially as there was a conference SID last week San Jose, CA.

    I persoanlly want to incorporate a couple of the 1280x1024 displays into a hat to provide a 3D headsup display. Placing the display above the brim with focusing lenses, and a flip down 1 way reflective mirror should provide a good useable display.