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New Nano-flat screen technology
A reader writes "An Australian research division has found a way to align nanotubes for use in flat screen LCDs. The group has struck a deal with an Austrian company called Electrovac, which plans to make new screens which can be hung on walls or folded up. " They claim that the screens are at least five years out. Darn.
I'm still waiting for more news from them on their plastic polymer displays... There was a story on SlashDot (last year?) about their first demonstration (only 2" screen)... They were supposed to demonstrate full sized screens by late last year if I remember correctly.
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You call that proof, little louse? :)
Another story about some neat newfangled display that we'll probably never see (Or if we do, a 15" one will cost $10,000)
They are used to shoot electrons at a phosphorous screen. Much nicer than crappy LCD.
Since they just announced a $1.5 billion investment in Hughs I wouldn't be suprised to see an AOL splash screen on that hand held video phone.
Running today's games would be a piece of cake on that kind of display, of course, just as a side effect :)
"Ten years from now, they could do it in a few seconds." -- The Racketeer of the Hellfire Club, 1993, Phrack 42
Whenever I see announcements about these kinds of breakthroughs, I fantasize afresh: How about a 60" concave (wraparound) display?? I want something I can play flight sims on.
I guess the biggest challenge would be the refresh rate for something that big -- that's probably why a lot of training simulators use projection or models with tracking cameras.
A big, immersive display like that would also be bitchin' for those of us who like to leave a lot of windows open simultaneously. One of my pet peeves is running out of desktop space.
"How many light bulbs does it take to change a person?" --BMcC-->
If these displays are flexible then you could probably make them role up inside a cell-phone. Combine them with a bunch of satellites and you could even build the hand held video phones that they use in 'Earth Final Conflict'
Every wrong attempt discarded is a step forward - T. Edison
I always knew there was something funny going on there, and here's the proof.
"Once a solution is found, a compatibility problem becomes indescribably boring because it has only... practical importance"
"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law." --
Translation to another stereotype: Hey bro' where you get the idea that Aarstraleeans were such puritanical mo'f'ers?? Chill dude!
-- open source? sounds like the real book --
Just wait until some self righteous bastard looking for votes realizes that you could possibly display pornography on them --WHAM-BAM-- banned like everything else in Australia...
So therefore I know full well that the Australian People are not to blame - they are in fact being screwed by that little Nazi bastard John Howard who seems to think that he has a "mandate from the people" to do whatever the hell he sees fit, simply because he managed to scrape his way back into office by backdooring the Preferential Voting System.
It's an acknowledged fact that he would never have been re-elected if the people who voted for parties like One Nation had known that his party was getting their preferences...
Did you notice the part about the size of the deal? $300,000 is peanuts even if that's US dollars; in Australian money that works out to about $196k American. Now, couple that with the 5 year projected development time; what can $196k do over 5 years? It might rent some really cheap office space (really cheap), or it might pay for janitorial service, or maybe the salary of one young slave boy.
What it really looks like is an angel investor taking a long shot. I wouldn't be surprised if this doesn't turn into anything.
Oh, go on, check out my job.
What do we do with all these handy potentially useful stuff. With nano-madness and nano-great-inventions and fears nano-nazis, I get the feeling we have all the parts to build I don't know a starship, but no idea where we're going to get the negative mass to get the warpdrive up and running. Yes, they've got it down to almost manageable scale. It's like there's all this stuff we could build if we could just stop killing each other for just one week.
The ultimate humiliation: humanity knows everything except that one thing.
Keep searching for them gravitons. If there's a negative graviton charge we're ready to go.
The ship sank. Get over it. (This sig was cut out from another's shirt and painstakingly hand-posted)
This company invented the LCD, but has anybody heard anything about the ultraviolet LCD? This technology uses a UV backlight, an LCD array, and color phosphors instead of color filters.
It's supposed to be much more efficient than standard LCDs, since you aren't throwing away so much light through color filters, and UV passes through the liquid crystals more effectively. The phospors make the display look like a CRT, and the viewing-angle problem goes away.
I haven't been able to find any more news about this technology since first hearing about it through some news source... Has anybody else heard anything about this?
Sounds like the Diamond Age is coming true. You know how they all you use that smart paper?
I can't wait to paint my car in that stuff. Woo Hoo