14 DAY TRIAL // When making a tablet or smartphone, or any other mobile electronic device, the display has a fairly large bearing on the ultimate thickness of the item, and Toshiba figured it would create a thinner one.
Display technologies are one of the things that the IT industry is working especially hard on lately.
In this case, however, the news story is not in regards to some new sort of 3D panel with or without the need for glasses.
Instead, it is Toshiba which, this once, grabbed the media's attention by developing a display panel with a thinness not easy to match.
The display in question is one which, like the technology it is based on, has no name at the moment.
What Toshiba did was try to merge an LCD with the capacitive touch layer and somehow make the whole thing about as thin as an AMOLED panel.
The prototype in the official press announcement is just 1mm-thick, something which, according to Toshiba, is half that of regular liquid crystal displays. That said, it stands to reason that weight is also cut in half.
The other advantage Toshiba claims is that the surface reflection is reduced by roughly 10 percent, meaning that outdoor visibility will be slightly less of an issue.
“Its smaller size enables the design of more compact products for mobile applications, reduces the impact on the environment by saving resources and power, provides crisp and clear images with minimal reflection of natural light even in a bright environment, and features intuitive multi-touch input,” says the press announcement.
Although surely something usable in mobile gadgets, like tablets and such, Toshiba seems more eager to see the display used in industrial application and vehicle-mounted devices.
The SID 2011 International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition (which will last between May 17 and 19, 2011) in Los Angeles is where the first, official demo will be held.