1.5″ USB Screen Must Be Good For Something
By Evan Ackerman
Inside this rather large box comes a rather small USB powered display. The Luma Labs UD7 Gadget Display has a 1.5″ screen, which is small enough that you can’t really display much of anything on it. Essentially, it’s a lot like a single button from the Optimus Mini Three, in that it’s not designed to act as a secondary display, but rather as the primary display for a variety of widgets. You’ve got options like clocks, system monitors, timers, games, and even Twitter and Facebook feeds. It’s kinda cute and potentially useful, and at only $30, totally easy to rationalize.
[ Gadget Display ] VIA [ SlashGear ]
Parallel Image Display Is Low-Res and Gorgeous [Art]
Just because it isn’t HD doesn’t mean it can’t be beautiful. The Parallel Image display uses photoreceptors to transmit brightness levels to the other side of the display. I’m in love with all of that gorgeous copper.
The project represents how video would be transmitted if serial data had never been invented. Each pixel in the 50×50 grid arrives on its own channel, hence the lovely mess of wiring.
I wouldn’t want to string all that copper, but I sure don’t mind looking at it. [Hack a Day via CruchGear]
Posted: December 5th, 2009
at 10:00pm by Chris Jacob
Topics: Displays, Parallel image, Parallel image display, TV, Wiring, art, copper, display
LG shows off their new 15-inch transparent AMOLED monitor
LG showed off their newest project at the FPD-International 2009 show in Japan recently, a 15-inch transparent display. Are we seeing the future of TV and computer monitors? Who knows, but it’s interesting to see nonetheless.
Of course, it’s still a prototype, and we have no idea when we’ll see it in retail, how much it will cost, or anything specific. We do know that it uses AMOLED (active matrix organic light emitting diode) technology, but that’s about it. Other companies, like Philips, are also checking out this technology, and it was even rumored that Apple was going to create a device utilizing a transparent display. Nothing has really come to market yet (though the Zune HD screen has been getting good reviews), but we’ll keep you informed when and if something does.
[via OLED Display]
Nokia Patent Gives Another Glimpse Into World’s Touchy-Feely Future [Patents]
Gadget patents are a strange lot. Is that dual-handed interface for an iTablet, or something else? Will my remote really Tweet someday? Probably not, but this patent from Nokia had me thinking of a touch- and, more importantly, pressure-sensitive future:
Now, touch screens are nothing new, obviously. The iPhone’s an obvious example, as are the multitude of touchscreen handsets that have done their fair share of pinch zooming, screen swiping and touch typing in its wake.
Add in pressure sensitive gestures, however, and a new level of control descends on the venerable touchscreen. Again, Apple’s been here before—at least with a 2007 patent—but nevertheless it’s interesting to see a giant like Nokia weighing in with some ideas too (let’s just hope they get their homework handed in before doomsday though, right?).
Like I said, the Apple one is going on two years old, and we haven’t seen anything yet. Our expectations with these things must remain in the realm of the real and the grounded. Still, as we explained earlier, touchscreens are our future, and the added functionality provided by a pressure-sensitive screen seems an inevitability. Question is, who’s going to be first to successfully drive this tech to where it really counts: Into the mainstream consumer market? [Unwired View via Engadget]
Posted: October 25th, 2009
at 11:00am by Jack Loftus
Topics: Apple, CellPhones, Displays, Phones, nokia, patents, touchscreens
Sony’s cylindrical 3D display is zoetrope-tastic
Everyone is marvelling at this little 3D display Sony’s got up in Tokyo. I say, no mystery about it! It’s a digital zoetrope. You can tell by the frequency issues it’s having with the camera that’s filming it. What does it remind you of? The moment I saw it I thought, there’s something spinning really fast in there or I’m a monkey’s uncle.
Okay, so I’m basically just tossing out nonsense. I really do think it’s a weird little zoetrope device, though, with two dueling, spinning displays providing the depth. Don’t ask me how it works! I can see it in my head, but I can’t explain it. If that makes me crazy then so be it.
[via Boing Boing]
