LG’s New OLED TVs Look Incredible, and You Probably Still Can’t Afford Them

LG’s New OLED TVs Look Incredible, and You Probably Still Can’t Afford Them

LG will add five new OLED TVs to its lineup in the coming year, including a 4K version. You won’t be able to afford any of them.

    



Apple Patents Screen Technology For Curved Touch Displays

Apple Patents Screen Technology For Curved Touch Displays

Move over Samsung and LG: Apple has been awarded a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office that describes how they could manufacture a new breed of curved touch surfaces.

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Real-Time ASCII Art That Hangs On Your Wall

Real-Time ASCII Art That Hangs On Your Wall

Until internet speeds were fast enough to make it feasible to share jpegs or GIFs, ASCII art—images created from text—served as a decent substitute. And while they seem antiquated now, the folks at Teehan+Lax Labs have breathed new life into the artform with this wonderful real-time display that uses simple segmented displays like you’ll find in any alarm clock.

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The OLEDs of the Future Could Be Inkjet Printed

The OLEDs of the Future Could Be Inkjet Printed

In the future we should hope for all of our displays to be OLED; it’s thin, light, deep with color, and energy efficient to boot. It’s also incredibly expensive. That could soon change, though, thanks to a jumped-up inkjet printer.

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Laser Holograms as Thin as a Hair Could Be the Future of High-Res

Laser Holograms as Thin as a Hair Could Be the Future of High-Res

Holograms are cool enough on their own, but amazing things happen when you make them incredibly small. A team of Army-funded scientists from Purdue did just that with the development of tiny holograms—smaller than the width of a human hair!—made by shining lasers through a metasurface. This could change display technology forever.

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You Could Accidentally Swallow the World’s Smallest Atari

Forget your old Game Boy, Game Gear, or even your smartphone; when it comes to compact gaming hardware, Adam from SheekGeek’s got everyone beat. Using the tiny display from an old Sony viewfinder and an all-in-one Atari joystick, he created what is easily the world’s smallest game console, putting even a Tamagotchi to shame.

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Samsung: 2014 Phones to Have Twice the Pixels, Folding Displays by 2015

The future is slowly arriving, with the advent of phones with radically curved screens—but Samsung isn’t yet content. In fact, the company insists that the displays of its devices will be foldable by 2015.

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An Awesome Flexible Display That Wraps Around the Edges of Your Phone

As if we needed any further convincing of the wonderful potential of flexible displays, a Japanese company called SEL has developed a high-resolution screen that can be rolled to a tight four-millimeter radius, allowing it to wrap around the edge of a smartphone while still working.

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The Relative Screen Resolutions of Your Favorite Devices in One Chart

The Relative Screen Resolutions of Your Favorite Devices in One Chart

The display on your phone is relatively tiny. But in pixels, it’s friggin’ huge. That’s the beauty of high resolution. So how would that phone screen compare to your TV, or your tablet or your laptop if it was spread out to a similarly-sized screen? Doghouse Diaries made this graphic to show you, and it’s kind of nuts.

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Hilarious Video Offers Glimpse of Our Pokey, Heads-Up Display Future

Hilarious Video Offers Glimpse of Our Pokey, Heads-Up Display Future

Like it or not, we’re rushing towards a dystopian future of head-mounted devices. Fortunately, along the way we are served up with gems like Industrial Technology Research Institute’s (ITRI) iAT (i-Air Touch) wearable device promo video.