there isn't a whole lot in the tech world that screams cool quite like a
transparent display whether we're talking Robert Downey Jr's warnings
about his imminent destruction in his Iron Man suit Mask The Rebel Bas on hath
or Tom Cruz whipping through evidence in Minority Report there's been no shortage
of sci-fi writers and dreamers who love the idea of working on a clear screen so
like anything in Star Trek they're a reality now but how do they wake well
the underlying technology that makes clear screens possible has actually been
around for quite some time any flat
panel LCD display features a layer of
pixels the supporting color filters and the electronics required to power them
and it's all see through or you'd never see the backlight through it in fact
transparent LCDs were notably shown off by Samsung in its smart window which
works like a regular window in your home but can display the weather email travel
information and other useful stuff and can even act as a digital venetian blind when you
want to darken the room but this concept
only works because the sun provides backlighting during the day at night it
needs to be lit from an artificial Source powered by a solar battery or
something that is why transparent screens made from oleds are where a lot
of the current excitement is because the diodes themselves generate their own
light from an electric current due to their chemistry so they don't need to be
attached to a bulky backlight which not only means you can use them in dark
environments but they can also be made super thin and flexible perfect for a
transparent display oleds can even be screen printed onto a plastic base or
laid as a thin fil making it a super versatile technology well lius you say
it's super versatile so but what can we actually use this stuff for well how
about heads up displays or Huds in both aircraft and cars the current Solutions
use projectors with poor viewing angles a transparent display HUD could not only
provide much better image quality but make important information like speed
and remaining fuel viewable no matter where the pilot or driver is looking and
even use augmented reality to Overlay the names of streets or landmarks onto a
windshield or even help with safety information like overlaying the view
from a blind spot camera or what about this imagine if you had a transparent
smartphone display that could work on both sides fujitsu's been working on
just that thing allowing users to grip an onscreen object from both sides of
the phone and speaking of smartphones researchers at Corning have developed a
way to embed tiny sensors right in the surface of a glass display that can keep
tabs on things like health information or the ambient temperature without the
need for additional hardware and there are plenty of ways for transparent
screens to enhance your shopping experience this is one of the big ones
that the manufacturers are pushing for so one example here is for an iPad a
pair of Nikes or whatever else is on sale to be kept inside a glass display
that doubles as a clear screen displaying pricing information product
features and other interactive elements a shopper can use while still being able
to look at the product itself and as a security device and if you're not in the
market for expensive sneakers we should be seeing this technology find its way
into much more affordable options like V machines to tell you how many calories
are in that bag of chips that you're eyeing over there there are a few Kinks
to be worked out like increasing the lifespan of oleds and improving on the
current 70% or so transparency of the
Showcase technology that exist today so it doesn't look like you're looking at
whatever it is through a dirty window but when that happens I mean man the sky
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