Next-Gen Display: MicroLEDs

Post by bpicolo » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 8:12 PM UTC

derefr wrote: post #26

cronjobma wrote: post #12

There was a time where I’d get super hyped when reading these kinds of promises. Transparent displays, foldable screens. Truth is, we’ve been seeing working prototypes at events like CES for more than 15 years. I’ve come to realize the mechanics of these companies are similar to the car industry. New technologies are presented for the same reason car companies present strange concept cars: PR

The weird thing is that we already have “foldable screens.” But all the phone makers have done with them is to give us slightly less bezel on our glass rectangles. I’m wondering if this is a “flying car” thing—if actually handing consumers ultra-thin bendable (but not actually creasable ) panels would be a dumb idea, because consumers would try to exceed their tolerances and break them too easily. (This is also, I th…

Post by mikestew » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 8:45 PM UTC

djrogers wrote: post #13

utopcell wrote: post #9

I'm not sure I see the "revolutionary" aspect of this. With displays, you don't need to make power consumption arbitrarily small. By Amdahl's law, you only need to make it a small percentage of the cpu (and wireless) consumption. In this respect, Sharp's transflective displays (that were found, for example, in the pebble watches,) were already resolving the power issue in the context of smartwatches.

The revolution is in the amount of time the display can be on, and the amount of data it can display 24/7. That is currently the big knock on most smartwatches - you have to move your wrist to activate the display and see the time. If that barrier is removed, it is revolutionary.

Post by DenisM » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 9:10 PM UTC

bitL wrote: post #33

cronjobma wrote: post #12

There was a time where I’d get super hyped when reading these kinds of promises. Transparent displays, foldable screens. Truth is, we’ve been seeing working prototypes at events like CES for more than 15 years. I’ve come to realize the mechanics of these companies are similar to the car industry. New technologies are presented for the same reason car companies present strange concept cars: PR

These might be good for pro photographers, though right now I'd rather see affordable 300dpi A4-sized e-book reader with tablet pen and SD card slot to get rid of all my paperwork.

Post by elihu » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 9:19 PM UTC

utopcell wrote: post #9

I'm not sure I see the "revolutionary" aspect of this. With displays, you don't need to make power consumption arbitrarily small. By Amdahl's law, you only need to make it a small percentage of the cpu (and wireless) consumption. In this respect, Sharp's transflective displays (that were found, for example, in the pebble watches,) were already resolving the power issue in the context of smartwatches.

Post by Someone » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 9:45 PM UTC

utopcell wrote: post #36

Someone wrote: post #31

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Firstly, these displays promise brighter colors and a wider gamut. Secondly, you only get long battery life in a small package one tiny step at a time, and you want them, either to increase battery life or to make smaller watches. The latter is particularly hard. A typical smart watch is around 10 mm thick, nowadays, 2 or so of which are taken by the display and the back panel. So, if you want to make it 8 mm thick,…

Wider gamut is what might be the differentiator here. With respect to power consumption, the video codec would probably draw more than 100mW [1], and at that point, the 2mW display consumption would not matter. [1] a 640x480@15fps hardware decoder draws 71mW. https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/fa11/cse291-a/pdf/02/JSSC_st...