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Offline Pugnate

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Samsung transparent OLED. Practical? No. Cool? YES!
« on: Tuesday, June 01, 2010, 02:24:49 AM »
Check out the video...

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/samsungs-14-inch-transparent-oled-laptop-video/

Apparently monitors are on the way as well.

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A better video:


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Re: Samsung transparent OLED. Practical? No. Cool? YES!
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday, June 01, 2010, 02:37:38 AM »
It's cool, conceptually, but aside from the lack of clarity and contrast, screen privacy would be an issue.

Have you sen Sony's tiny LED which can be rolled up?

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Re: Samsung transparent OLED. Practical? No. Cool? YES!
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday, June 01, 2010, 08:17:51 AM »
Right, the tech is not that new.  As I understand it, its biggest problem now besides cost is a short life.  The blue pixels bear the brunt of that, if memory serves.  I have high hopes for the tech.  Right now, I feel the only worthy successor to CRT is plasma.  Everything else is rear projection or akin to rear projection (LCD).  Plasma is self-illuminating, like CRT and like OLED.  You can't get perfect contrast, color, viewing angles and uniformity of color and light without that.  We just make do with what works until then.

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Re: Samsung transparent OLED. Practical? No. Cool? YES!
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday, June 01, 2010, 04:46:59 PM »
Cool... if you watch porn on that you, it can be viewed on the other side :D