First flat screen technology was Liquid Crystal Display technology (LCD), then plasma, then Surface-conduction Electron-emitter (SED) and now Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED).
source: The Screens Of The Future (transparent OLED) I have seen wide use of LCD and plasma and I have read about SED and OLED but I do not know of any of either in use. I think SED and OLED have a long way to go to become mainstream. Plasmas and LCD's have only gotten popular over the last few years as prices began to drop considerably.
In a television store the seller told me that the plasmas had their days counted. LCDs were for him more the present and the future. LCD is now quite stable and seems to be the best TV solution.
SED and OLED? I've just heard now that names. Let's see your link.
Interesting article. It seems that the advantages cover all fields. Even durability and flexibility. The material is thiner than ever, and energy costs are going quite down. The downside is the money and time to see prices going down significantly.
Screens of the future? Transparent OLED is cool, but aren't you forgetting about phased array optics? Who needs a screen, after all? ^_^
oh yeah. can't wait for it to cum to the market. hope it would be at the reasonable price tag too. lol
i didnt use to like lcd in fact my pc monitor is a true flat monitor and it served me well these years
i mostly didnt like that because you cant change them if just 3 pixels turn red and dont work which is very lame
for me if just 1 pixel changes to red its scrap and must be changed with no arguments because ur buying a good product with good money.
nowadays everywhere lcds i dont think i would find where they sell old type monitors anymore
my house tv though are fine for now, we have 2 and they are enough
maybe in the future i will get a plasma but for now im happy enough with what i got
I like it!
It's a very interesting ideia! Now laptop and Notebook should be even thinner! And another interesting thing is that it could be very flexibe! look at this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1buy3N_Fvsg
If you think about it, you can put a very good screen every place you want! It's thin and flexible (probably resistent too) enought so you can just make a lot of thing that we just can't before. And imagine how thin will be the cell phones and PDA's...
Now... Does every one know if the light is strong enought to be used under the sun? | rvbarreto wrote: |
I like it!
It's a very interesting ideia! Now laptop and Notebook should be even thinner! And another interesting thing is that it could be very flexibe! look at this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1buy3N_Fvsg
If you think about it, you can put a very good screen every place you want! It's thin and flexible (probably resistent too) enought so you can just make a lot of thing that we just can't before. And imagine how thin will be the cell phones and PDA's...
Now... Does every one know if the light is strong enought to be used under the sun? |
yea they are ammasingly flexible indeed
i beleave that it will lead to an advancment in thechnology of the future.
but for now i think they are too expensiveMan, that is REALLY cool!
Technology just keeps getting better and better!
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Man, that is REALLY cool!
Technology just keeps getting better and better! |
it was allways like that and it will remain 
The technology that keeps coming out for TV's right now is so new-age it's awesome! I cant wait for this stuff to hit the shelves!! Not that I'll be able to afford it or anything..
The technology of the future is three dimensional screens, based on hollograms technology.
| nisibdv wrote: |
| The technology of the future is three dimensional screens, based on hollograms technology. |
looks cool but i think il be too old for it at that time | Jeff_vella_leone wrote: |
| nisibdv wrote: | | The technology of the future is three dimensional screens, based on hollograms technology. |
looks cool but i think il be too old for it at that time |
Not necessarily. They're close!
i'd estimate 10-15 years, and we'll start seeing the first generation of 3D screens. | Indi wrote: |
| Jeff_vella_leone wrote: | | nisibdv wrote: | | The technology of the future is three dimensional screens, based on hollograms technology. |
looks cool but i think il be too old for it at that time |
Not necessarily. They're close!
i'd estimate 10-15 years, and we'll start seeing the first generation of 3D screens. |
hope soit's all about nanotechnology....
The applications of nanotechnology are limitless. Today, scientists are focused on making medical applications more efficient. The belief that people could cure most diseases is what is driving the research today.
Currently it's possible for there to be clothes that destroy bodily odor, that don't stain, and that don't tear without mending themselves. You could have nanorobotic blood cells that would carry oxygen more efficiently, allowing you to hold your breath for much, much longer. We could virtually eliminate the damage radiation does to our bodies. Oil spills could be easily and efficiently cleaned. There are limitless possibilities.
This can also have large implications of the environment. From the bottom up approach, we can think of nanotechnology to be similar to what nature has designed. The cells of the tree are replicating and are dividing at a rapid growth. So from this approach we could make little machines which could create natures “factories”. Today, we are using the top-down approach, which is cutting down the trees for wood etc. With nanotechnology applications, this would be replaced with small machines manufacturing things; the concept that we can really make an object from just molecules is what really gets me excited and anxious to see what people can make in the area of nanotechnology. Because we are making thing from molecule to molecule, then there must be a way that we can make material lighter or heaver, stronger or weaker or increase the strength-to-weight ratio a lot more. This would mean that solar energy could become cheaper and more efficient.
We know that most of the materials are made out of carbon, nanotechnology gives us hope that with applications of nanotechnology, we can build strong and lightweight houses for poor families in third world countries.
Nanotechnology will have huge implications in the medical fiend too. In the future, we can create molecules which can circulate around in your body until it finds a target molecule, which would then identify specific molecules by attaching to them. These molecules would be controlled by nanocomputers and would contain the data that a healthy tissue would have and would pass this information on to the body. These could also help kill bad blood vessels and could possibly check the DNA for possible errors. This would get rid of any unwanted impurities. This would change the face of medicine!
If we could create and model enzymes from scratch, the possibilities are endless. This is easier said then done because there are tens and thousands of billion protein molecules. And all of them act a little differently. This is not entirely impossible because we are stepping in the direction of creating things from scratch. This is what is known today as the bottom up approach. Maybe, one day, we can actually build repair systems what will be better than natures own molecular machine. These small nanofactoties would self-assemble to create something a lot larger. There would be many, even in the thousands to build something that is the size of an ice cube.
Computers today are only good at computing repetitive tasks and are only capapable of thinking depending how it is programmed. In the future, with new innovations and technology in the nanotechnology area, we can make computers think for themselves and think without a program telling them their next move. Meachines would be able to do most of the functions that a human can do. I think there will come a time when computers will be very well designed, designed so that they can transfer words from paper to paper while understanding what is written. There will be times when computers can will have a “brain” and will think for themselves and can operate without a human’s interaction.
We can make things that we thought was science fiction. Tomorrow has a lot of new and exciting and concerning matters. There are also the negatives which come with the great revolution. As humans, we all have different ideas on what is right and wrong, and a lot of the nanotechnology can be used for destructive things. That is to say, there are possibilities of making weapons of mass destruction with the help of nanotechnology. Even though there are great possibilities with the help of nanotechnology, I hope that we are very careful and are not blinded by what equations and our hopes let us see.
Wht is the porpuose of this thread? It is not obvious from the first post. Maybe to put what everyone of us knows is the better technology, or to imagine what the future technology will be? I think future technology will be screens without screens, like those seen in futuristic movies, a little lamp projecting a planar image in the air. Fantastic and amusing. I dont know if the technology for that is actually possible.
| ptolomeo wrote: |
| Wht is the porpuose of this thread? It is not obvious from the first post. Maybe to put what everyone of us knows is the better technology, or to imagine what the future technology will be? I think future technology will be screens without screens, like those seen in futuristic movies, a little lamp projecting a planar image in the air. Fantastic and amusing. I dont know if the technology for that is actually possible. |
It's not only possible, it's close. i don't know how you would make a 3 dimensional volumetric image without at least one screen displaying it, but if you allow a screen then making 3 dimensional images is easy.
In fact, you know the holodeck from Star Trek? We may have it in less than 50 years, possibly less than 30 (except the images will not be solid, you can pass your hand through them). In the next 10-20 years, you may have a flat screen TV on the wall that projects a 3D scene into your living room.its great all the tecnology nowadays... i have an lcd monitor and its great.
I'm a traditionalist when it comes to screens. I've got a 17 inch LCD monitor somewhere - in a box. I actually *use* my trusty 21 inch CRT monitors (I have 2, which is useful for some application).
I find that the LCD monitor is nowhere near the quality of my old fashioned 'tube' monitors.
I have no doubt that technology has moved on since I was given the monitor in question but I recently visited a friend who has just bought a huge high definition LCD television with 5-1 surround-sound. The audio was great - cinema quality - but the picture quality left me disappointed. It was good, for sure, but not as good as I was expecting - certainly not worth (to me) the £1200 price tag.
About 3 years ago I had the privilege of going to kodak's research labs. They were working on an LCD paint (can paint your wall and 2 wires connect to it and voila a giant tv). Their main aim though was to put advertisements onto cereal boxes using small lcd patches connected to a miniture battery. The quality was amazing. I think due to recycling etc (batteries + silver) they have scrapped the idea. Although they could be in a supermarket near you soon.... 
OLEDS are already here. I have an iRiver S10 mp3 player and it has an OLED screen. It's most impressive, it looks as though the picture is printed. It's only a 1" screen though. They also do the Clix 2 which has a much larger screen.
I believe that technology is advancing alot slower to the market, than it actually is, that companies develop new technology, but only release minimal versions of what they have actually made, to keep the prices competitive, and so there is a constant stream of new technology. I find the prices of phones to be quite ridiculous, the prices have stayed so high, but have barely improved over the last couple of years. Whereas, the prices of lcd screens are MUCH lower.
I bought a 17" LCD screen a couple of years ago, and it cost me $750, and came with about 6-7 dead pixels.
I just bought a new 24" lcd screen, with awesome graphics, no dead pixels, alot thinner, and only $550.
but i am happy with lcd screens at the moment, and i think that the OLED's are kinda cool, but why do you even need a really thin screen?
Technolgie is moving that fast it's frightening, and I cannot believe how cheap Plasma's and LCD TV's are now compared to a couple of years ago. Whoever is building that next line of TV's must be on flat rate. Technology to the rescue!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pekz2XH69CY
Its the Panasonic Life Wall. New technologies just keep getting crazier and crazier. Those super-slim screens look flashy but are totally unnecessary. If they become the norm than so be it, but I'm good with my LCD screen for now, even if it is a whole 5 cm thick.
| gtherockgod wrote: |
| New technologies just keep getting crazier and crazier. Those super-slim screens look flashy but are totally unnecessary. If they become the norm than so be it, but I'm good with my LCD screen for now, even if it is a whole 5 cm thick. |
Luddite. ^_^;
