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May 24, 2010
One of the areas of technology where more and more inventions are evident is in the area of screen and digital displays. This is because the transparent display brought in such a revolution of ideas about how to use them in other modules.
A good example is a headset display recently invented by Motoroloa. The headset is a prototype hands-free terminal for use in construction or other tough environments where the user has his hands busy, but still needs a computer. This is very much like simply “wearing your computer on your head.”
The Motorola Helmet display fits under a construction helmet. The display itself is called the Golden-i. The design puts a tiny screen up close to the eye which gives the equivalent of a 15-inch display, and also has a headphone, a microphone along with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi for talking to other devices. You become almost one with the computer’s brain when you wear a headset like this.
The headset is voice-controlled. Once you have adjusted the eyepiece for your eyesight, you simply read off the names of the icons to access them: My Music, My Pictures and so on. The voice detection software, supplied by Nuance and called VoCon3200, ignores normal conversation, only listening to commands. Think of this type of display as being like Blu-Tooth for your computer. You can command it to do what you want.
Another great display concept is called vaporware. These are low-power displays that can switch between color LCD screens and e-reader-like black-and-white displays. These are just simply easier on your eyes. There is way les glare.
Conventional LCD screens offer bright, glossy images but consume too much power. They are just not the ecological or efficient screens tine the world. The images they display are also not visible in sunlight. It’s one of the reasons electronic paper, a low-power black-and-white display that can be seen clearly outdoors during the day, has become a rage among e-book readers.
A company called Pixel Qi promises to bridge both worlds by giving computer users a display that is both black and white and color.
Pixel Qi’s 3Qi display operates in three modes: a full-color LCD transmissive mode; a low-power, sunlight-readable, reflective e-paper mode; and a transflective mode, which makes the LCD display visible in sunlight. This means you will never be craning your neck or twisting your laptop around straining to read the print on it again.
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