Imagine a world in which very thin interactive displays can be placed on almost any flat surface you can think of; on backpacks, coffee mugs, on kitchen counters, bathroom mirrors, car dash boards, kitchen cabinets or bedroom closet doors as well as any flat surface in your office.
In this new interactive display world you’ll be able to read an instant text message from a co-worker, that appears on your bathroom mirror while you’re brushing your hair, and will be able to instantly respond yes or no to your available to attend a business meeting that day with a new start time, talk to your mother on your very thin cell phone or via a video display on your kitchen counter as well as via the large HD 3-D wall size television display in your living room, read the news on your coffee mug and where you can pick up directions in a new town simply by waving your cell phone in front of a map display of the town you’re visiting.
That new display world is coming! Speculation is that it will arrive sometime in the next ten years as display glass and plastics get thinner. A recent USA Today article, titled “Flexible displays bend what’s possible for computers,” discusses this new thin display technology and Corning Inc. even has two super cool videos posted on the YouTube website that show how this new display glass will revolutionize the way we live. The Corning Inc. videos are called “A Day Made of Glass” and “A Day Made of Glass 2.”
The USA Today article is found at the following link:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-04-05/flexible-displays-computing-screens/54064128/1
The first A Day Made of Glass video clip is found as this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38
And the second Corning Inc. video, A Day Made of Glass 2, is found at this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZkHpNnXLB0
And I’ve just discovered Corning put out a new video on Gorilla Glass just last week which shows another glimpse into the near display future. It is found at the following link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypQEHNDayRk
Linda R.
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