Transparent Displays as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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948 words · ~4 min read
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there isn't a whole lot in the tech world that screams cool quite like a
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transparent display whether we're talking Robert Downey Jr's warnings
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about his imminent destruction in his Iron Man suit Mask The Rebel Bas on hath
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or Tom Cruz whipping through evidence in Minority Report there's been no shortage
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of sci-fi writers and dreamers who love the idea of working on a clear screen so
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like anything in Star Trek they're a reality now but how do they wake well
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the underlying technology that makes clear screens possible has actually been
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around for quite some time any flat
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panel LCD display features a layer of
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pixels the supporting color filters and the electronics required to power them
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and it's all see through or you'd never see the backlight through it in fact
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transparent LCDs were notably shown off by Samsung in its smart window which
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works like a regular window in your home but can display the weather email travel
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information and other useful stuff and can even act as a digital venetian blind when you
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want to darken the room but this concept
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only works because the sun provides backlighting during the day at night it
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needs to be lit from an artificial Source powered by a solar battery or
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something that is why transparent screens made from oleds are where a lot
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of the current excitement is because the diodes themselves generate their own
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light from an electric current due to their chemistry so they don't need to be
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attached to a bulky backlight which not only means you can use them in dark
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environments but they can also be made super thin and flexible perfect for a
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transparent display oleds can even be screen printed onto a plastic base or
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laid as a thin fil making it a super versatile technology well lius you say
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it's super versatile so but what can we actually use this stuff for well how
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about heads up displays or Huds in both aircraft and cars the current Solutions
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use projectors with poor viewing angles a transparent display HUD could not only
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provide much better image quality but make important information like speed
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and remaining fuel viewable no matter where the pilot or driver is looking and
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even use augmented reality to Overlay the names of streets or landmarks onto a
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windshield or even help with safety information like overlaying the view
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from a blind spot camera or what about this imagine if you had a transparent
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smartphone display that could work on both sides fujitsu's been working on
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just that thing allowing users to grip an onscreen object from both sides of
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the phone and speaking of smartphones researchers at Corning have developed a
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way to embed tiny sensors right in the surface of a glass display that can keep
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tabs on things like health information or the ambient temperature without the
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need for additional hardware and there are plenty of ways for transparent
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screens to enhance your shopping experience this is one of the big ones
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that the manufacturers are pushing for so one example here is for an iPad a
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pair of Nikes or whatever else is on sale to be kept inside a glass display
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that doubles as a clear screen displaying pricing information product
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features and other interactive elements a shopper can use while still being able
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to look at the product itself and as a security device and if you're not in the
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market for expensive sneakers we should be seeing this technology find its way
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into much more affordable options like V machines to tell you how many calories
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are in that bag of chips that you're eyeing over there there are a few Kinks
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to be worked out like increasing the lifespan of oleds and improving on the
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current 70% or so transparency of the
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Showcase technology that exist today so it doesn't look like you're looking at
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whatever it is through a dirty window but when that happens I mean man the sky
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the limit I'm I'm not much of a fashionista but there's going to be some
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