http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 2:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
The question I only have for you is - why not?]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 2:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/So you can write an essay while checking out the hot girl sitting in front of you in history class.]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/a HUD on your car windshield maybe?]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
Laptop + Desk littered with papers?...thats what I'd use it for.]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
So you can tell your friends (if you have any) that you own a laptop with the worst contrast ratio ever created, won't work outside and best if used while facing a black wall in the corner of a dark room.]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 2:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 2:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
Augmented reality,
Info and maps interface integrated into the car windshield,
some kind of 2 side games or creative collaboration (i am thinking in the class room), ]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
Also, I just want to say that the past few days, post iPad glut, have been awesome on Engadget. New litho process info, new software (this post), Symbian going open source, and cyber warfare posts are why I started reading Engadget in the first place. Thank you for renewing my faith in this site. Keep up the good work.]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
So you can drive and type without getting into an accident.

Honestly, why a laptop? Why not put this tech onto car windshields?]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 2:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 2:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
I agree about integrating transparent OLEDs into windows, tables maybe and other surfaces, not sure if I'm on board the windshield HUD as you should keep your eyes on the road, not the windshield, but I was asking particularly about a laptop / PC displays. It's more a con than a pro, especially with laptops, because then people can see what you're doing from every angle]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
I would like to add that there wasn't anything wrong with engadget's iPad coverage, it was the best there was. It's all the haters out there that ruined engadget. Now that those attitudes aren't here (or are being moderated) this place is almost more +4 informative that /. comments.]]>Feb 5th 2010 3:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
This is bad, because, as someone already mentioned a long while back, you can no longer do naughty stuff on your computer without the person on the other side noticing. TOO BAD!]]>Feb 5th 2010 3:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/I'd love to have a transparent display.

I find myself many times facing a person on my desk and needing to show images on my display... The thing is the display is facing me, so the other person only sees the back of it. I could turn it around, but the I would be the one seeing the back of it. Making the display visible to both of us is a neck hurting low-fi experience.

A transparent screen would solve it for me (this situation is central in my line of work) as the image shows both ways. Flipping the image horizontally is just a simple software achievement. It would be perfect!]]>Feb 5th 2010 4:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/The idiots who buy this will be taping black piece construction paper to the back after the novelty wears off. Then it will be really snazzy.]]>Feb 5th 2010 5:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 5:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
But what if a zombie comes at you, and you have your laptop screen up and the headphones on? That strongly reflective screen prevents the zombie from the rear attacks, as well.

You need this anti-zombie screen.]]>Feb 5th 2010 6:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
So you can put an e-ink screen on the other side of it that's off when the OLED screen is on ;)]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
9. So your parents can bug the shit out of you.

8. Never have to fear an attack from your 'blind side'

7. Watch gay episodes of the Jersey Shore while surfing.

6. Never fear missing that hot chick that just passed you by in the coffee shop.

5. Looking to truly distinguish yourself from other nerds.

4. Because you were robbed as a child from those supposedly 'real' x-ray vision glasses that allowed you to see people naked.

3. Three words... Hello pretty kitty, guys you know what I'm talking about..

2. Did I mention it's transparent?

and the number 1 reason.....

So you don't have to describe the hot porn chick your watching to your friends....
]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
I could also finally see a good use for the aquarium screensavers... put a big one of these in a wall between two rooms... especially if the touch input were on both sides... ok maybe not...]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
A laptop is not one of them!

The advent of affordable, smallish OLED screens will bring a new era of color reproduction to laptops. So why would you want to RUIN that by making the thing see-through!? Goodbye, color accuracy. For that matter, goodbye privacy! It's a great concept demonstration, but it is not practical.

But now we know how the main window on the new Enterprise worked lol.]]>Feb 5th 2010 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Its just for novelty. Same reason anyone would buy an IPad.
It's useless, but hey "doesn't it look cool?"]]>Feb 5th 2010 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 6th 2010 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
Think about it....
1. HUD on vehicular windscreen
2. Using bathroom mirror as monitor
3. Using fixed shower/bath screen as monitor
4. Using windows as monitors or screen
5. Lessen unseen area covered by road signs
6. Using tabletop as monitor (like MS Surface)
7. Visually adding more space to a cram workspace.]]>Feb 6th 2010 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
I think this would make the most sense in settings where you need to face a customer on the opposite side of the desk.
Eye contact is not lost, and the person on the other side can also see what you're doing, without having to flip it around a thousand times.
In fact, it'd make a lot more sense if you could flip the screen orientation in the opposite direction.

]]>Feb 6th 2010 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/this would be perfect for schools....]]>Feb 6th 2010 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
Number 6 says it all! I'm in line for one of these though. ]]>Feb 13th 2010 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 2:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 2:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Edit: Not if it is transparent both ways. In the video from CES, it looks like you can partially see what is on the other side. ]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 2:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 2:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 6th 2010 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
Transparent laptop? How distracting and tacky.]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 2:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
actually, as a tablet it makes far more sense. it could be useful in applications where being able to do a virtual overlay is useful. Mapping comes to mind easiest, surveying as well, this could also be good for plastic surgery, medical imaging....like any hardware it just needs to be applied to the right application.

even without being able to fit all the hardware into the bezel it could work as a wireless display.

as a laptop display it's more candy than anything, but that's certainly not new.]]>Feb 5th 2010 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/Feb 5th 2010 2:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
Flawless victory!!!]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/samsungs-transparent-oled-laptop-could-hit-retail-icetouch-pmp/
Comment of the year. Right here.]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:48AM