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New Nano-flat screen technology 25

Posted by Hemos from the uber-cool dept.
A reader writes "An Australian research division has found a way to align nanotubes for use in flat screen LCDs. The group has struck a deal with an Austrian company called Electrovac, which plans to make new screens which can be hung on walls or folded up. " They claim that the screens are at least five years out. Darn.
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  • There's several that work on it... I don't know about RAM, but the Norwegian company Opticom ASA is working on terabyte sized storage with circuits printed on plastic. They have previously claimed that they will manage to store 170 terabyte on a credit card size unit, but haven't been able to deliver anything yet. Their latest claim is 2-4 GB by sometime next year.

    Btw. They are the ones that own Fast, who deliver the MP3 search on Lycos. Apparently, the hardware used by Fast was developed to be able to search rapidly on the contents of their plastic storage cards.

  • Well, it just popped into my mind, when there will be finally so real large displays, we could probably have a powerful controller each cubic foot (probably boasting more pixels out than current 3D "accelerators"). At least, that sounds the most logical for me :) An easy way to get around refresh rates for 3d (or whatever popular control metaphor there will be at that time), and then connecting small number of powerful devices will be even more advanced than today's SMP technology.

    Running today's games would be a piece of cake on that kind of display, of course, just as a side effect :)

  • Whenever I see announcements about these kinds of breakthroughs, I fantasize afresh: How about a 60" concave (wraparound) display?? I want something I can play flight sims on.

    I guess the biggest challenge would be the refresh rate for something that big -- that's probably why a lot of training simulators use projection or models with tracking cameras.

    A big, immersive display like that would also be bitchin' for those of us who like to leave a lot of windows open simultaneously. One of my pet peeves is running out of desktop space.
  • If these displays are flexible then you could probably make them role up inside a cell-phone. Combine them with a bunch of satellites and you could even build the hand held video phones that they use in 'Earth Final Conflict'


  • I always knew there was something funny going on there, and here's the proof.


    "Once a solution is found, a compatibility problem becomes indescribably boring because it has only... practical importance"
  • croipes moite, Oi dinno that striyens were ge'n sech a reptashn as piurtens. Stone the crows!

    Translation to another stereotype: Hey bro' where you get the idea that Aarstraleeans were such puritanical mo'f'ers?? Chill dude!

  • I belive Apple might be uses a Light Emitting Polymer in its new notebook line, but its just a rumor.
  • Just wait until some self righteous bastard looking for votes realizes that you could possibly display pornography on them --WHAM-BAM-- banned like everything else in Australia...
  • So therefore I know full well that the Australian People are not to blame - they are in fact being screwed by that little Nazi bastard John Howard who seems to think that he has a "mandate from the people" to do whatever the hell he sees fit, simply because he managed to scrape his way back into office by backdooring the Preferential Voting System.

    It's an acknowledged fact that he would never have been re-elected if the people who voted for parties like One Nation had known that his party was getting their preferences...

  • Did you notice the part about the size of the deal? $300,000 is peanuts even if that's US dollars; in Australian money that works out to about $196k American. Now, couple that with the 5 year projected development time; what can $196k do over 5 years? It might rent some really cheap office space (really cheap), or it might pay for janitorial service, or maybe the salary of one young slave boy.

    What it really looks like is an angel investor taking a long shot. I wouldn't be surprised if this doesn't turn into anything.

  • What do we do with all these handy potentially useful stuff. With nano-madness and nano-great-inventions and fears nano-nazis, I get the feeling we have all the parts to build I don't know a starship, but no idea where we're going to get the negative mass to get the warpdrive up and running. Yes, they've got it down to almost manageable scale. It's like there's all this stuff we could build if we could just stop killing each other for just one week.

    The ultimate humiliation: humanity knows everything except that one thing.

    Keep searching for them gravitons. If there's a negative graviton charge we're ready to go.

  • This company invented the LCD, but has anybody heard anything about the ultraviolet LCD? This technology uses a UV backlight, an LCD array, and color phosphors instead of color filters.

    It's supposed to be much more efficient than standard LCDs, since you aren't throwing away so much light through color filters, and UV passes through the liquid crystals more effectively. The phospors make the display look like a CRT, and the viewing-angle problem goes away.

    I haven't been able to find any more news about this technology since first hearing about it through some news source... Has anybody else heard anything about this?
  • No, you're confusing a nanotube with a cathode ray tube.

  • Ok, I give up, what is "NT"?
    I don't want to think it's a certain
    other OS....
  • Well, after all it sounds like a fake for press.
    There is a big problem with Nanotubes (just read an artikle a few days ago) that they destruct much faster if arranged in arrays (as to be in TVs). I can't believe they were able to solve this problem...BTW, can someone remember this corp. who invented RAM on plastiks?!?
  • Oh yes, that are the guys I meant...just couldnt remember what they said they want to develop...
  • Sounds like the Diamond Age is coming true. You know how they all you use that smart paper?

    I can't wait to paint my car in that stuff. Woo Hoo

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