Puff piece, but sort of interesting nonetheless, on wearable displays:Starner expects that the advent of mass-market floating displays will similarly expand what we do with mobile computers. He and his peers predict that someday we'll all be operating in "augmented reality" with the help of our wearable computers. All that really means is we'll eventually have the ability to bring the Web--or some form of it--with us wherever we go. Clearly the display is the biggest problem going forward (with data entry the second.) But will it go this way, or will flexible roll up displays be the answer? Imagine a cell phone / mobile computer in the form factor of a fat pen. Out of the side of the pen you can pull a flexible screen, like rolling down a window shade. This way you can get an arbitrarily big display in a pocket sized device. Both technologies are here, and close (2 years?) from the retail market.
I'm thinking about getting one of these digicharms. They sell for $150.
"...animated content segments...."
Does that mean animated .gifs? If you can load your own .gifs onto it then you should definitely get one!
Universal Display Corporation showed a prototype of a roll up OLED screen similar to what I was thinking above: "One striking application is an ultra-portable handheld personal digital assistant based on a FOLED screen, which rolls up into the size of a pen."
retinal display via SID (Society for Information Display).
"The instantaneous entrance pupil of the eye and the exit pupil of the virtual display device are coupled so that modulated light is scanned directly on the retina, producing the perception of a stable, erect image."
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- jim 5-08-2004 6:34 pm
I'm thinking about getting one of these digicharms. They sell for $150.
- sally mckay 5-08-2004 11:57 pm
"...animated content segments...."
Does that mean animated .gifs? If you can load your own .gifs onto it then you should definitely get one!
- jim 5-09-2004 12:13 am
Universal Display Corporation showed a prototype of a roll up OLED screen similar to what I was thinking above: "One striking application is an ultra-portable handheld personal digital assistant based on a FOLED screen, which rolls up into the size of a pen."
- jim 5-16-2004 6:11 pm
retinal display via SID (Society for Information Display).
"The instantaneous entrance pupil of the eye and the exit pupil of the virtual display device are coupled so that modulated light is scanned directly on the retina, producing the perception of a stable, erect image."
- sally mckay 5-16-2004 7:36 pm