You know that fancy flat-panels can
display more colors than the human eye / mind can even interpret, right? Thanks to our hard-wired limitations, a certain facet of boffins across the way are developing a method that would scale back the amount of colors used in an
OLED screen in order to shave energy usage even further. Johnson Chuang of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia has worked with colleagues in order to conjure up sets of colors that "slash the power consumption of an OLED panel by up to 40 percent, with minimal effect on how people perceive an image." In theory, at least, this breakthrough could lead to longer battery life in cellphones, PMPs and all manners of portable devices. As Chuang puts it: "Say you're running low on battery and you want to use Google maps to get home; switching to an energy-aware color set could make your battery last longer." Don't pretend
that doesn't interest you.
posted July 8th 2009 9:23AM
Oh god not this kind of nonsense again, same idiocy as the old 'you cannot tell the difference between a 128Kbit MP3 and live' which they said when they introduced MP3's.
Perhaps your elderly vision/hearing challenged 'average' sample can't tell but I bet that at the very least a good 40% of the people CAN see more colors than their average graph claims, same as that a very substantial amount of people CAN hear that 128Kbit MP3's aren't equal to CD's, and in fact can hear 256Kbit MP3's aren't either.
Ooh, I see my county in NE Texas and a few other states on that image.
Totally off subject, I know.
"You know that fancy flat-panels can display more colors than the human eye / mind can even interpret, right"
Bullshit. Dam marketing lies, tailored to people that just 2 years bought 3000$ flat-screen TVs that have such horrible color rendering it makes my eyes hurt.
M.