THE FUTURE IS HERE: There are two very cool things going on here. First, the transparency of the display: reminds me of the transparent displays used in the movie Avatar, The Matrix and The Minority Report. The second is the fact that this isn’t an ordinary transparent display; it is an OLED display that is transparent. The OLED is also 14 inches big. Technologically, this 14-inch transparent OLED notebook PC concept from Samsung is quite impressive. I think it would have been even more impressive if there were no bezels. But what would we do with a transparent display on a notebook PC?
NO PRIVACY: Privacy issues come to mind. I regularly go to cafes, bookstores and public libraries to blog and I wouldn’t want everyone around me to know what I’m writing. Not that I’m trying to hide something but it seems too open for anyone to see, albeit reversed, my every move.
TRANSPARENT OLED SMARTPHONE: Rather than implement a transparent OLED display into a notebook PC the better platform would have been a smartphone. Sure, there is that possibility that someone would be so curious as to squat down in front of you to get a glimpse at what you’re doing, but that’s a possibility only theoretically and would certainly not happen in real life. With a transparent OLED display on a smartphone you could implement augmented reality. The main challenge in a gadget like that would be to cram all the chips that usually resided behind the display to somewhere else. I just thought of another idea: a transparent (multitouch) OLED digital camera.
Thanks for the tip Donghwan!
Stargate Studios’ 2009 Virtual Backlot Demo:
Almost everything you thought was real is actually virtual. via Chase Jarvis
The conclusion:
- iPhone: Precise lines indicate accurate representation of finger path. Noticeable loss of sensitivity at edges.
- HTC Droid Eris: Fairly linear track, with some waviness.
- Motorola Droid: Stair-stepping and waviness indicate inaccuracies in tracking travel of finger.
- Google Nexus One: Fairly linear track, with some waviness.
My conclusion: Not one of the four smartphone’s capacitive touch sensing systems are perfect but it seems the iPhone is the closest to being perfect. Make sure to visit MOTO to see the pictures of all four phones with the test pattern. MOTO via Daring Fireball
LARGEST OLED TV: A TV that’s just 15 inches isn’t much of a TV. Many notebooks are bigger. But the 15-inch TV from LG is not made of a typical LCD. LG showcased its commercially-available and the world’s largest 15-inch OLED TV at CES 2010.
THIN: The major benefit of OLED is thinness. Yes, despite LCD’s best efforts OLED is much much thinner. How thin? 0.1 inches. 3.2 millimeters. Talk about your TV being flush to the wall. Of course, you wouldn’t want to mount this TV on the wall since you would need to be standing right in front of it to see anything. And therein lies one major identity problem: the slimness is perfect for mounting on the wall but the size is far-from-perfect for that purpose.
IDENTITY? It’s a personal TV. The 15-inch size would fit just right at a desk or in a business-class seat on an airplane. On a desk the TV doesn’t need to be so thin, except for the purpose of bragging. The thinness would definitely be a plus for space-constrained places like on an airplane, but the price isn’t right.
RICH: Exactly who is the 15-inch OLED TV for? Rich people who like state-of-the-art and who don’t mind spending a lot for it. You have a 1000-square foot bathroom? Perfect. This one is waterproof. Source: Wired
Chinese designer Daizi Zheng has designed a concept phone that is powered by Coke. Well, sugar to be exact. Screw off the top and pour Coke into cylindrical Nokia and expect the phone to last longer than a traditional Lithium Ion batteries by a factor of three to four. Daizi Zheng:
The concept is using bio battery to replace the traditional battery to create a pollution free environment. Bio battery is an ecologically friendly energy generates electricity from carbohydrates (currently sugar) and utilizes enzymes as the catalyst. By using bio battery as the power source of the phone, it only needs a pack of sugary drink and it generates water and oxygen while the battery dies out.
Brilliant concept, but will need to solve the problem of phones getting messy. Source: Daizi Zheng via FuelCellsWorks, TreeHugger, dezeen, Engadget