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Actually, most HUDs would compensate, "tricking" your eye, and causing the image to appear to be floating any where from one foot to several yards infront of the viewer.]]>Feb 17th 2008 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/
Brilliant!

"What is the main problem with Internet connected cell phones? It's the display."

The main problem with all portable computing devices is *input*. Nothing's as fast as a real keyboard. Flawless voice recognition in portable devices would be ideal, but that raises other issues (privacy, noise pollution, etc.)

"Having a transparent display built into glasses.."

Your eye can't focus on something an inch away. Try it. Even if you could, you'd probably go half blind within 10 minutes. *lol*



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Are they still limited to manufacturing these things at like an inch squared?]]>Jan 27th 2006 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/
they've'>http://www.universaldisplay.com/toled.htm

they've been making them for years.]]>Jan 27th 2006 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.universaldisplay.com/toled.htm]]>Jan 27th 2006 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/Jan 27th 2006 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/Jan 27th 2006 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/
In the late 90, they got so mad, they released the MP3 (developed by Fraunhofer Institut in Germany :D) and destroyed a whole industry :D.

R]]>Jan 28th 2006 12:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/
Apparently, yes.]]>Jan 28th 2006 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/Jan 28th 2006 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/Jan 28th 2006 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/Jan 28th 2006 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/"..including the ability to create displays that can become completely transparent and be turned on and off at will."

I'm not sure this second part is a big selling point. My LCD monitor can be turned on and off at will. ]]>Jan 28th 2006 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/
One of the cool things about transparent OLED that UDC has been talking about is the possibility of layers reg, green, and blue, instead of clustering them. In LCDs and current OLED screens, each pixel's emitters of either red, green, or blue light are clustered together. By having three transparent sheets- one each for blue, red and green, you could easily triple resolution while providing truer color.]]>Jan 28th 2006 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/Jan 28th 2006 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/Jan 28th 2006 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/
No, I think each OLED emits it's own light (hence "Organic Light Emitting Diode").]]>Jan 28th 2006 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/Jan 28th 2006 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/
"Everybody got all hot and bothered about Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) screens a year or three ago, but the darn things still don't seem to last much longer than 2000 hours. Well, technically it's just the blue OLEDs that don't last very long; green lasts a lot longer and red lasts for ages. But people don't seem all that crazy about paying for a TV that turns yellow, then red."
- http://www.dansdata.com/gz044.htm]]>Jan 28th 2006 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/
and plug it all into a mac mini.

*drools*]]>Jan 29th 2006 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/Jan 29th 2006 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/Jan 29th 2006 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/Jan 30th 2006 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/Jan 30th 2006 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/27/researchers-developing-transparent-oleds/
From www.oled-info.com (yes, I've had this site bookmarked for almost a year, so what?):
12 January, 2006: Universal Display Announces Advances in Blue Phosphorescent OLED Technology
"[Universal Display] will present a proprietary new blue PHOLED with CIE (0.16, 0.29), excellent luminous efficiency of 21 cd/A and over 17,500 hours of operating lifetime at 200 cd/m2. This corresponds to over 3,000 hours at 500 cd/m2, a target luminance for commercial applications." And that's just referring to "deep blue," the company has already maxed out the a lighter, "sky blue" so a deep blue was the only challenge remaining... well, that and *mumble*mumble*, but because of the way these displays are made a lot of companies are saying that they will be able to use the same fabrication lines as they currently use for LCDs.

I think charlie is right too about picking up some shares of UD, they seem like a good company, they are at the front, they hold a lot of the cards. Of course, Kodak has a lot of the key technology locked up too, but I think UD is probably the best bet we have right now in the OLED field - they roxxor! I just wish I wasn't so poor or I'd gamble on them too.]]>Jan 30th 2006 2:14PM