LG's transparent 15-inch AMOLED display is amazing, possibly useless

Look at that, just look at it will you. It's another in a latest trend that's bringing transparent displays to consumer electronics. However, this pup is in color and livin' large at 15-inches unlike those tiny transparent displays we've seen in handsets. Unfortunately, all we can do is look for the moment because the concept on show at FPD 2009 in Japan is accompanied by very little in the way of detail.

[Gunbuster Posted Oct 28th 2009 12:00PM]

Sci-Fi set dressers rejoice!

[Nicnac Posted Oct 28th 2009 1:37PM]

I think if CSI: Miami has taught us one thing it's this: Terrible actors can score great gigs.

[HektikLyfe Posted Oct 28th 2009 4:26PM]

Why useless? At first I thought this was just gimmicky but that calculator looks pretty damn solid to me. As long as the transparency isn't too bad that could be the worlds best desktop wallpaper behind your screen, you ACTUAL desktop.

I think this is super cool and I wouldn't mind a laptop with a cover like that. Think of the applications for school and meetings where you don't have to peek out from behind your giant widescreen. You just minimize.

Great progress and I am highly anticipating a consumer version. Now please work on dropping the price somewhere below the sticker price of an SUV. Thx!

[fourblades Posted Oct 28th 2009 4:39PM]

It's not useless! Me want! /greed

[TEG24601 Posted Oct 28th 2009 5:40PM]

So now we can have Cardassian Style video communications?

[Toy Yoda Posted Oct 28th 2009 6:41PM]

For the end consumer? It might be useless, but I don't think so.

You can use it as a hud display for cars, trucks, and even planes.
Perhaps used in augmented reality goggles.

Perhaps small business owners can use them to hang in their store front windows.

Perhaps it could be a key component in a teaching tool for people learning how to draw, or for people impaired and they want to learn how to write. In details: you put the screen between your eyes and your hands and "trace" on paper what you see on the screen.

If it's a touch screen transparent device the above example works in reverse. Draw what you see literally, by framing the subject behind the screen, and now all you're doing is tracing by touching the screen.

Ditto the application for the medical/vetinarian industry.

It can be used in restaurants to replace fish tanks. Now, you can have a virtualized fish tank.

[I program in 0100001001101001011 Posted Oct 28th 2009 6:47PM]

OMG WTF BBQ ROFLMFAOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 11:55PM]

Wake me up when they're able to sandwich together hundreds of these things and use it to make an actual 3d display, one with proper star wars style holograms inside the transparent box.

[famikom Posted Oct 29th 2009 12:55AM]

oh dam. i can now watch porn on my window...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 29th 2009 4:08PM]

Thomas Ricker, you are a completely embarrassment to other bloggers by leaving a thoughtless comment "completely useless". Your mentality and morality does not even qualify you to become a blogger. What an idiot to leave a dumbfounded comment.