Polymer Vision has created a new rollable screen that measures 6 inches. The screen has an SVGA resolution of 800x600 pixels. The screen is flexible enough to comfortably roll around a dime.
The screen has a lifetime of about 25,000 uses.
Displays
The x2301 is a new display from HP that measures 23 inches diagonal and is also classed as being very thin. The monitor is just 9.8mm thin which is achieved by moving a lot of the electronics in to the base/stand of the monitor. The weight of the screen is also quite low at 7.7lbs.
AGC has created new glass that measures just 0.1mm thin. The glass can be used for either OLED or TFT-LCD screens.
Alkali-free glass, composed mainly of silicon dioxide, boron oxide and aluminum oxide, is free of alkaline elements such as sodium and potassium, and is used widely as substrates for TFT-LCD and OLED.
Samsung has announced a new display that measures 10.1 inches and crams 2560x1600 pixels on to the screen. The display has a DPI of 300 and comes close to the DPI of the Retina display used in the iPhone 4. The new screen will be on display on May 17-19 at the SID Display Week in the LA Convention center.
The technology used on the screen is LCD and with that pixel density of 300 DPI, it allows more clarity in small text which makes reading, browsing and over tablet based activities a little better.
Over the weekend, some artwork was found within the latest Mac OS X Lion build that hints at higher resolution Retina Displays (or at least higher resolution displays) arriving in the coming year. A number of icons were found that broke the regular 512x512 size that are available in current builds. Instead, icons with a resolution of 1024x1024 were found along with a background that has a 3200x3200 resolution. At the moment, no Apple product has a resolution that high.
At the moment there is no need for icons to have a 1024x1024 pixel size which makes us, and others, believe that Apple could increase the pixel density of the iMac and perhaps even the MacBook Pro over the next year. The new sizes are probably a little too early for the rumoured iMac refresh that is just around the corner, but perhaps by this time next year we could be seeing some high density displays on the market.
Samsung is beginning to mass-produce a transparent 22 inch LCD panel. Each screen is either black and white, or color and has a contrast ratio of 500:1 with a resolution of 1680x1050 pixels.
"Transparent displays will have a wide range of use in all industry areas as an efficient tool for delivering information and communication. With the world's first mass production of the transparent LCD panel, Samsung Electronics plans to lead the global transparent LCD market by developing various applications."
Each of the screens has a transparency of either 20% for the B/W model and 15% for the color model. This is higher than the next competitor which is rated at 5%. [click to continue…]
Over the next few years, we will more than likely be seeing higher pixel density screens according to Samsung. By 2015, the company expects to have screens that have a higher pixel density of about 300 to 400 PPI which will be made available for tablets to use.
The slide show was presented at CTIA and explained that screens would see a density increase, while getting thinner and having better power requirements. Right now, a 24.8Wh battery could last around 6 hours with the next version (200-300PPI) lasting around 8 hours and then in 2015 the 300 to 400 PPI lasting around 10 hours. Each iteration will get thinner than the previous model. [click to continue…]
Samsung has created a 55 inch 3D TV that requires no glasses to see the effect. The screen is LCD and uses CFL backlighting although LED can be used. Samsung say it's quite easy to switch between the two at the build stage.
The display uses a couple of LCD screens to make the 3D effect and has 9 viewpoints that are capable of seeing the effect. The optimal viewing distance is 2.5 to 6 meters from what reports are saying. The screens work together in that one is behind the other. The latter of the screens acts as a lens and creates the necessary optical refraction to make 2D to 3D transitions. [click to continue…]
Sony is creating a new 3D screen that when launched, will have a dual-view mode. What that means is that two players could play a Playstation game with each player seeing what they need to see full screen.
The system works in a similar way to the split view screen seen in some cars. By showing an image directed at one angle, the screen can then show a different picture to someone sitting in another location. When used in a car, the passenger could watch TV while the driver could see the navigation running. With gaming, it works on the same principle that player 1 sits to the left of the screen and player 2 to the right. Each player would see their own screen. [click to continue…]
Mitsubishi has introduced a new 3D TV to its range. The new screen measures a healthy 92 inches and has a bunch of features packed inside.
The features include a built in emitter, DLP technology, four HDMI inputs as well as the ability to stream audio via Bluetooth.
The refresh rate on the TV is 120Hz. [click to continue…]
Samsung has created an image that shows the difference between an ordinary AMOLED screen and a Super AMOLED Plus display that will be arriving in the Samsung Galaxy S 2 when it launches.
Put simply, the main difference is that the Super AMOLED Plus version has more pixels. At a WVGA resolution the regular AMOLED can show 768,000 sub-pixels while the new version of the screen is capable of showing 1,152,000 sub pixels. [click to continue…]
Vizio will be launching a new 21:9 Cinema HDTV at CES this year. The new TV has an LED based screen that is capable of showing 2560 x 1080 pixels. This is in a very wide 21:9 aspect ratio.
The new 21:9 HDTV will come in either 50 inch or 58 inch sizes although that's about all we know about the screen at the moment. [click to continue…]