Samsung Transparent OLED Display!

[mikeburton]

There is only one man who could sum this new Display up in a single word;
Cue Keanu; Whoa! http://www.5min.com/Video/Samsung-Transparent-OLED-Display-92539988

[Chris Parker]

crazy...

[Brent J. Craig]

Why in the heck would I want to see what's behind the TV? Should I put it in front of my other TV and watch two shows at once? ...Coming up next on Anderson Cooper/The Simpsons...

[Emery Wells]

I've been waiting for this to come to market for 7 years. God what I would do for a heads up display that would make my car look like the interior of the millennium falcon.

[Emery Wells]

Why in the heck would I want to see what's behind the TV? Should I put it in front of my other TV and watch two shows at once? ...Coming up next on Anderson Cooper/The Simpsons...

The market for transparent screens is endless. Heads up displays is one application, super efficient windows that act as transparent light panels is another. Advertiser would have a field day and slap them on everything. The promise is they will become cheap enough to plaster to every surface known to man. Think Time Square is annoying now? A trip to the supermarket might be worse in 5-10 years.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Call me Mr. Buzzkill, but... Most OLED implementations are transparent to begin with. They just printed the OLED film onto some tinted plastic. This is hardly a new innovation. All the applications that the guy in the video is talking about; HUD's, 3D displays, no backlight, etc... are all applications for which OLED tech has been claimed ideal for more than the last decade. This video was like deja'vu because I pretty much saw the same thing with my own eyes at CES 2 or 3 years ago, it just wasn't quite as high resolution.

What this really shows is that here we are nearly 14 years since the very first OLED "display" with like 8 pixels was demonstrated on a transparent, postage-stamp sized plastic film, and the cost-effectiveness and responsiveness of the technology has only now progressed to offer a tiny video screen.

Maybe I'm just hard to impress these days... But I'm ready for printable OLED tech so I can print my own screens onto 50-foot long banners. I want disposable video controllers with bio-degradable alcohol cells powering OLED packaging so when I go to the store, the cereal boxes and candy wrappers taunt my children with interactive cartoons right on the box.

...Yes, it will happen. But at the current rate of progress, it will be my grandkids who get to have all the fun in the cereal isle.

[kidrobot]

I just want my Playboy with moving images.

[Ethan Cooper]

I just want my Playboy with moving images.

playboy.com?

[Jonathan Stevenson]

I just want my Playboy with moving images.
Holy crap, now there's a million dollar idea!

[Harry Lipnick]

There are two places I'd like to see these. Number 1: the cockpits of little airplanes I fly. Number 2, a bit more apropos to this site, my mattebox. Think of it. A single 4x5.65" OLED in the filter stage, and a controller to dial in exactly what degree of 85 filter you'd like, a ND with exactly the 1/10th of a stop reduction you need, and, of course, a feathered edge exactly where and exactly as soft as you need it. If these things really are transparent, that would work, right?