A Computer on Glass [Archive] - Open Tech Support Community

TotalRecall

10-23-2002, 06:16 PM

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sharp Corp, Japan's largest maker of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), unveiled a screen Tuesday with microprocessor circuitry applied directly onto the glass, enabling it to function like a computer.

The company hopes to have products available by 2005 using the advanced circuitry, perhaps even a "display card" that could store data and be carried around for use with various gadgets from games machines to mobile phones to car navigation systems.

Read more: EETimes (http://www.eet.com/at/news/OEG20021023S0048) and Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=search&StoryID=1611020#)

TotalRecall

10-23-2002, 06:16 PM

Even cooler than StarTrek's pads! :)

Null Actor

10-23-2002, 06:19 PM

This is, bar none, the best damn technology advancement I have seen in YEARS. It will open the way for a lot of very very cool technologies.

SKYHN

10-24-2002, 01:13 AM

Reminds me of the scene in the Resident Evil movie when Alice opens the dresser drawer and theres a glass cover over a bunch of guns with a keypad and circuitry on it.

I hope we see Holodecks soon, or rather, Holosuites :)