RSSSharp Builds Three-Way LCD Screen
By Nate Mook | Published September 27, 2006, 1:20 PM
Japanese manufacturer Sharp on Wednesday demonstrated a new LCD flat panel that allows for three different images to be viewed on a screen depending on the angle. The company introduced a dual-view LCD last July, which is already being used in cars.
The idea is that multiple people can use a single display for different purposes. For example, Sharp noted that a driver could be accessing directions, the passenger looking at shopping information, while those in the back seat view a movie. The technology divides the backlight into three different directions to accomplish this feat.
I wonder if it would be cheeper then 3 screens. If it is, i could buy one, then just swivel the screen to change the desktop being used.
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|"One use for this technology would be replacing Advertisement Boards in cities. One side would display one advert while the otherside would display yet another, increase advertising space and revenue."
They already do that.
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|So its not bad enough that porno in the workplace is bad. . . So you are sitting at your cubical looking at porn while your boss walks by and only sees you conveniently doing your work... While a co worker in another cubical pops his/her head up to ask you and question and see's you playing Solitare chatting with your boss. So not only does your co worker get jealous that your boss does not care that you play solitare instead of doing your work, but you're looking at inappropriate porno instead all the while. ;x
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|One use for this technology would be replacing Advertisement Boards in cities. One side would display one advert while the otherside would display yet another, increase advertising space and revenue.
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|Neat idea, but...
Who really keeps their shopping list on a carputer anyway? :P
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|bah! Stick with developing the 3d screens...I love 3d! make me go eee...heee...heee :D
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|how much of most of what we have is "needed" :)
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|While this is cool technology, I really wonder how often it will be utilized.
I mean in their example, they say the driver with 1 thing, passenger another and those in back watching a movie. How easily would it be for those in the back to even see the screen?
I think a driver passenger screen may make sense, but still - how much is it NEEDED vs. just being cool?
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|the example cited was merely an example to help people understand what the technology is on a basic level. the real benefits of this probably aren't known yet, but I bet we won't see them in a car.
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|If someone can figure out a way to use the technology in a weapon to kill enemy combatants, we'll see it in the marketplace tomorrow.
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|too true
seems these days that technology is invented for profit or killing people.
remember the good old days when NASA was just thinking stuff up?
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|Not at all... the real seller will be the porn industry. Imagine - just moving around you get to watch 3 different porn movies... or the same movie from 3 angles. :P
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|sweeeeet
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|"seems these days that technology is invented for profit or killing people."
That's how technology has historically advanced.
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