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Samsung 46-Inch Transparent LCD Formally Launched

If 2011 was the year when 3D panels picked up steam, 2012 may just be the one that sees transparent panels, like the one Samsung has announced, actually become a true part of the market. It was not too long ago that Samsung revealed a new transparent liquid crystal display panel, one that was a sort of successor to...

17 January 2012
05:54 GMT

Video Shows Cool Samsung Transparent, Flexible Screen

We've seen a lot of ideas that never really got to turn into reality, because they were too far-fetched, but Samsung's flexible 3D AMOLED Display might just manage to avoid the limbo of great but impossible ideas. Sure, the bits about holographic projection are a bit much, but the rest of the video actuall...

5 December 2011
08:34 GMT

Transparent Crab Shells Hold the Secret to Bendable Displays

Translucent chitin isn't exactly something one would assume to exist, especially if people have any idea what chitin is, but there definitely exists, right now, a transparent crab shell. The reason for the existence of such a thing is because biologists from the university of Kyoto decided to turn a regular cr...

2 December 2011
10:51 GMT

Kickstarter Project Finally Creates Glass Keyboard

It so happens that boneless robots (not that robots even have bones in the strictest sense, but still) aren't the only leap towards the future, not with the Kickstarter project up and running. The Kickstarter project that engineer, inventor and entrepreneur Jason Giddings has set up is called Multi-Touch Keyboa...

29 November 2011
18:01 GMT

Samsung and Cheil Use Transparent LCDs on South Korean Subway Stations

It might not be the big leap into a world of living buildings with window displays, but the first of the baby steps has been taken now that Samsung and Cheil Worldwide have started to install transparent LCDs into public places. This report says that Samsung and Cheil Worldwide have begun to install transparent dis...

24 October 2011
05:52 GMT

Samsung Technology Makes Window Displays Possible

Light has become a central part of today's economy, since one or more manifestations of it are spreading at a rapid pace, and Samsung just upped the ante with a new display technology. Samsung is here to introduce, indirectly or otherwise, the second light-based advancement of the day. While TDK outlined its...

10 October 2011
11:10 GMT

Samsung Manufactures Transparent LCDs, Is the First Company to Do So

Whenever a company gets to boast about being the first to accomplish something at least mildly significant, one can be sure that a whole press release will be dedicated to it, and it seems that Samsung is the latest to announce something of this sort.The current IT market is packed with many sorts of displays, all o...

31 March 2011
03:47 GMT

Samsung Shows Off 19-Inch Transparent AMOLED Screen

Ever since Star Trek and Star Wars first aired, the minds of the populace have been filled with futuristic visions of not just exploding space stations and various cataclysmic scenarios that bring about the end of humanity, but also of how technology may evolve and improve the human condition. In terms of IT, creatin...

24 May 2010
10:34 GMT

Samsung Reveals Transparent OLED Laptop

USB 3.0 is still a way off from becoming widespread, NVIDIA's Fermi has been getting delayed and Intel's Larrabee has been indefinitely put on hold. Not only that, but even the existing high-end graphics cards have been in short supply because of 40-nm yield problems. This slew of progress-hampering events ...

7 January 2010
03:34 GMT

Flexible and Transparent Phones Might Be Possible

Some time ago, an idea that seemed so crazy that almost no one gave it any chance, surfaced on the Web. This idea represented a concept phone, called Nokia Morph, which was unlike anything anyone had ever seen, and probably unlike anything most of us could have imagined in a lifetime.In any case, even if the idea was...

11 December 2008
03:31 GMT

NEC Flask Phone: Fuel Cell Power and Transparency

NEC, the Japanese electronics manufacturer, recently unveiled a new concept phone that uses fuel cell as power. While the idea is not new, as Motorola, Samsung and Toshiba also consider implementing this technology into handsets, NEC's fuel cell phone is really something that we haven't seen until now. ...

3 February 2008
02:06 GMT

Fastest Optical Shutter Triggered by Laser

The principle behind the newly developed technique involves using light in order to trigger a physical transition without varying the temperature of the material in wide ranges. This is usually done with the help of a coherent light source, such as radiation emitted by lasers, that interacts with a system on a molecu...

7 December 2007
09:10 GMT

See the Transparent Frogs!

This newly engineered amphibian could save thousands of frogs from massacre worldwide, no matter if for dissections in biology classes or medical research. A Japanese team succeeded in producing see-through frogs, so you can see their organs, blood vessels and eggs without the need of removing skin and muscles. "You ...

1 October 2007
03:06 GMT

Polymer Opal Films Identify Counterfeit Money and Rotten Food

A new color-changing technology could have many practical applications, from letting you know if your dollar bill is counterfeit simply by stretching it to see if it changes hue, to showing you what food in your fridge is spoiled.Developed by scientists at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom and the ...

26 July 2007
11:07 GMT

Invisible Nanofibers Made of Plastic Could Create Transparent Electronic Devices

Plastic nanofibers are far superior to silicon components in terms of power consumption, radiation hardness and heat dissipation. These fibers, invisible to the naked eye, could be used in future applications like transparent electronic devices, self-cleaning surfaces and biomedical tools able to manipulate strands ...

29 June 2007
05:05 GMT


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