The once hot display technology of OLED seems to have died down a little bit at this year’s CES. While there were still small instances of the OLED from the usual suspects, the trumpeting of the technology for common television viewing was absent.
In its place, however, were more interesting and alternative uses for the OLED. Sony showed a flexible OLED display that could be worked into things such as a folding laptop screen or a bracelet.
Another OLED use that caught our eye was the transparent AMOLED, which could prove one day be used for high-resolution, full color heads-up displays. See the image below for what we saw.
Will OLED eventually become just the main technology for our HDTVs and computer displays, or will it be for special use devices such as the one above? Discuss!
Oled... Transparent!
The good is probably for store owners playing back commercials on their store windows.
The bad is,you can't really use this technology on a laptop if you want some form of privacy...
You could have a flexible plastic or intransparent silicon based flap on the back, foldable like a sunscreen on a window; but then you won't benefit over a regular screen which costs less.
The good would probably be (I presume) if on the back one could install a mirror;directly on the screen, without glass subtract between.
Then perhaps one can create some sort of solar reflective screen if possible.
Works with regular TFT,so I hope some of this technology can be used to create those semi-reflective screens (no need for backlight).
If they can make the panel really transparent, we can stack the panels and make a 3D display eh?
i have seen this done before using a normal LCD screen monitor.
I'm also not very sure if sitting at an angle will give you a nice view,since layers will not match; so I think it's not very likely to see this invention applied in 3D tv.
Well, it would be pretty cool to show it off I 'spose
I remember people saying: "Why the hell would the world need more than two or three computing-machines?
Those would be more more than enough to compute the worlds financial issues!"
That was more than 50 years or so ago, when "computers" that filled large rooms, couldn't even do what a ordinary casio-calculator (or so) can do during maths classes today.
Imagination and the possibility to do things creates "needs". There was no need to personal computers, till they got available to the public.
So there will be a need for certain, when (transparent)OLED-screens get cheaper and more versatile in use. I say, not even 5 years in the future, you can't imagine why you said "I don't see a need for transparent OLEDs"
Just wait and see
ok, cars are not and will never be a fad, i take that back, i think that these "hybrid" crap are a fad. think about it, you still burn gas to charge the batteries, plus more batteries to replace. it's a waste.
now back to the topic at hand. think about it, when you are doing any kind of photo editing or watching a dvd, do you really want to see behind the screen or do you want to see bright high def colors? if there was an option were you could darken the background then maybe it will work. if this was possible then you can change it when you need it for privacy so others can't see what you are doing, lol.