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Samsung 14" notebook with transparent OLED

post #1 of 19
1/14/10 at 10:16am
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This 14" notebook allows 30-40 % of light to pass through when it is off. When it is on, you can see the desktop and applications, along with what is behind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPY7WYBtq8w
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post #2 of 19
1/14/10 at 3:49pm
I don't think this is anything new. I've seen desktop LCD screens before with the back plate removed and it looks pretty similar. I might be wrong though.
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post #3 of 19
1/14/10 at 6:14pm
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I am sure that the notion of screen transparency is not something new. But new is that it is being implemented for notebooks and desktop display/monitor.

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post #4 of 19
1/14/10 at 11:07pm
Hard enough to get privacy when using a notebook - this seems like a fashion idea that really is all wrong for this market.
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post #5 of 19
1/15/10 at 4:10am
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Hard enough to get privacy when using a notebook - this seems like a fashion idea that really is all wrong for this market.
Coming to a MacBook near you
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post #6 of 19
1/15/10 at 4:22am
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From what I understand, and I could be wrong, this is a one-way transparency screen.

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post #7 of 19
1/20/10 at 7:31am
Regardless, I see this moving on to the phone industry after time.
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post #8 of 19
1/20/10 at 7:38am
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Regardless, I see this moving on to the phone industry after time.
That would be a very slick notion

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post #9 of 19
1/25/10 at 7:49am
Transparent cool factor 10, useful factor not sure?
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post #10 of 19
1/25/10 at 10:12am
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Useful factor? Sure, the Army uses transparent screens for many years, depicting large (see-through) maps in the command centers

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post #11 of 19
1/25/10 at 7:08pm
As a notebook screen yeah it seems generally useless, but it would be pretty sic to have a tv that doubles as a window. Just throw in an electrically controlled tint behind it and bam!
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post #12 of 19
1/26/10 at 2:58am
Dr/owned qhn seems to confuse HUD with this? But so be it? No more comment at this point?
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post #13 of 19
1/26/10 at 3:13am
HUD just means additional environmental information being displayed to you. Doesn't automatically imply transparent or projected or glass etc.

I just realized glass and transparent could be interpreted as the same thing. I mean transparent as the property and glass as the material.
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post #14 of 19
1/26/10 at 2:52pm
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Regardless, I see this moving on to the phone industry after time.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Pureness
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post #15 of 19
1/27/10 at 5:19am
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HUD just means additional environmental information being displayed to you. Doesn't automatically imply transparent or projected or glass etc.

I just realized glass and transparent could be interpreted as the same thing. I mean transparent as the property and glass as the material.
Not to be contrary but to me HUD means Heads Up Display you know like an acronym? Oh wait actually it is an acronym? And I would argue with your interpretation as yea if you were looking at a brick wall then yea not transparent but why then are not movies HUD?

To much to disagree with and such tired fingers have a read and rethink your comment? Link.

Edit: HUD might be a sub group of AEI but that is not what you responded to or said?
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post #16 of 19
1/27/10 at 5:24am
I disagree with the wiki article on that. If my brick wall in front of me told me what the weather was like outside, I'd say that's additional "head up" information. I'm not arguing that transparent HUD is more useful than non transparent hud, but then where do we draw a line? Does semi opaque count as HUD if its being projected on?

Movies wouldn't fit my definition at least because they're not giving any world-around-you information.

Edit: woo i might have come up with an argument supporting my definition. In counter-strike there's hacks that let you see people's health through walls. There's no way to see this without a hack (ergo no "instrumentation you have to look down at to otherwise see" per wiki) but its still called HUD.
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post #17 of 19
1/27/10 at 5:50am
Earth to DR. Forgetting the game stuff as well made up is made up and fantasy is well? Fantasy. Looking at your brick wall to get the weather would require you to have another reason to be looking at your brick wall? You get? I mean when I look out my window (transparent) to see if say it is raining it is not a HUD? You know because I am looking out my window to see the weather?

Anyway I know we are so far off topic but was just throwing in the mix.

On topic I will enjoy seeing the implementation of OLED. Like most in the past the early guesses are not the main value that innovation becomes. I right now think the potential for bendable monitors you can roll up is interesting. But as said were it will go is anyones guess.
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post #18 of 19
1/27/10 at 6:28am
I'm just gonna call the exact meaning of HUD to be a fuzzy area given modern times.

The biggest advantage a transparent screen opens up is not requiring a projector for displaying info meaning smaller size. As you mentioned...roll up paper would be good but I'd like to see that combine with the tech in some car suspensions where the fluid changes its viscosity given an electric charge...press a button and your rollup becomes a solid sheet for easy holding
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post #19 of 19
1/27/10 at 6:49am
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I'm just gonna call the exact meaning of HUD to be a fuzzy area given modern times.

The biggest advantage a transparent screen opens up is not requiring a projector for displaying info meaning smaller size. As you mentioned...roll up paper would be good but I'd like to see that combine with the tech in some car suspensions where the fluid changes its viscosity given an electric charge...press a button and your rollup becomes a solid sheet for easy holding
This - I can definitively agree with

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