Althouse: "In the future, it could get wrapped around a lamppost or a person's wrist, even worn as clothing. Perhaps it can be put up like wallpaper."

May 26, 2007

"In the future, it could get wrapped around a lamppost or a person's wrist, even worn as clothing. Perhaps it can be put up like wallpaper."

You want thin screens? Yes, we want the surface of everything to come alive with video.

8 comments:

Tim said...: "Yes, we want the surface of everything to come alive with video."

Uh, no we don't. Slouching toward "Blade Runner."

Not good.; 5/26/07, 12:27 PM
Michael McNeil said...: Check out this display for an interesting possibility.; 5/26/07, 1:18 PM
LoafingOaf said...: Yes, we want the surface of everything to come alive with video.

I get a kick out of that show Pimp My Ride, the way they so irrationally put like 15 monitors into a car, even monitors that pop out of the truck on a robotic arm to dance and spin around. It's ridiculous but it's also pretty cool. Would be great if pimped out cars were cruising all over the roads on a Friday night, showing off all their tricks and gimmicks.

Anyway, these paper screens seem pretty revolutionary. Can't wait to see how they're put to use.; 5/26/07, 2:30 PM
LoafingOaf said...: truck=trunk; 5/26/07, 2:31 PM
reader_iam said...: Yes, we want the surface of everything to come alive with video.

Since "no, I don't" is my immediate reaction, what I want to say is "No, thank you."

But because I think it's inevitable, I'll just adopt the attitude "thank you, sir--may I have another" and move right along. Life is just one long series of adjustments, and never more so than in the area of technology. So it goes.; 5/26/07, 2:40 PM
blake said...: OLEDs are like the electric car of display technology. I remember reading about them in the mid-'90s when they were "less than five years from production".

We're coming up on fifteen now and we got little 2.5" ones? Yay.

It's not the clothing aspect that's interesting, IMO, it's the lightness, the ability to size freely, and the ultimate cheapness.

We're closing in on a laptop that you carrying in a pocket and unroll as needed.; 5/26/07, 5:01 PM
Ruth Anne Adams said...: We're closing in on a laptop that you carrying in a pocket and unroll as needed.

Well, that would solve Althouse's pocket problem.

And a snowclone: Is that a computer in your pocket, or are you just happy to be blogging?

[Hope you don't get brain-freeze.]; 5/26/07, 9:41 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: Reminds me of The Diamond Age.; 5/26/07, 9:45 PM