How about inventors make stuff instead of designers?
If this guy thinks he can make this with an OLED, he's a fool. It would require a fair amount of power, enough that it would have to plug in to be visible at all.
You could make it with EL ("Indiglo"), but then it wouldn't be visible in the day much at all. Maybe a combination of EL and a piezo flip display?
Also, lots of poor design: They imagine that each digit is independent. Many problems with this: how do you sync time setting, syncing day/night mode (as mentioned above), power (you don't want different digits dying at different times), expense.
Keeping in sync... hm, RFID? One of the elements is a clock (best thing if it's the seconds digit), via RFID or some other wireless tech.
Admittedly powering the thing will be difficult, unless they are using e-ink, but then it wouldn't glow at night. But still I like the idea a lot and hope to see it on my wall one day. What about the wireless power transmitting stuff? Like in the Palm Touchstone? One would have to be plugged in then, but other than that? Might bring up the price though.
They could add a power source where the colon would be in the time (how about a pipe character) that could house the RFID brains and master controls. This could be an expandable system with month/date/year as long as a power connection for each digit is designed.
How about having them all mount to a wireless power pad on the wall? You know, if price isn't an issue.
The device is aimed at gamers and TV watchers, generating a 3D image with use of a pair of 0.7-inch OLED panels, which each display separate images, doing away with the ghost imagery that often comes along with 3D displays.
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How about inventors make stuff instead of designers?
If this guy thinks he can make this with an OLED, he's a fool. It would require a fair amount of power, enough that it would have to plug in to be visible at all.
You could make it with EL ("Indiglo"), but then it wouldn't be visible in the day much at all. Maybe a combination of EL and a piezo flip display?
It should be E-Ink.
Also, lots of poor design: They imagine that each digit is independent. Many problems with this: how do you sync time setting, syncing day/night mode (as mentioned above), power (you don't want different digits dying at different times), expense.
I like the e-ink idea, but what about at night? Can e-ink displays have backlighting? [e-ink noob]
E-ink is a great idea. No, they can't be backlight, but neither can piezo electricdisplays.
These things would drift out of sync quickly, the digits will not flip all at the same time.
Keeping in sync... hm, RFID? One of the elements is a clock (best thing if it's the seconds digit), via RFID or some other wireless tech.
Admittedly powering the thing will be difficult, unless they are using e-ink, but then it wouldn't glow at night. But still I like the idea a lot and hope to see it on my wall one day. What about the wireless power transmitting stuff? Like in the Palm Touchstone? One would have to be plugged in then, but other than that? Might bring up the price though.
They could add a power source where the colon would be in the time (how about a pipe character) that could house the RFID brains and master controls. This could be an expandable system with month/date/year as long as a power connection for each digit is designed.
How about having them all mount to a wireless power pad on the wall? You know, if price isn't an issue.