• CeBIT 2011:Samsung's Ambient Light Powered Display

    CeBIT 2011:Samsung's Ambient Light Powered Display

    Roydon Cerejo, Mar 08, 2011 1238 hrs IST

    A full HD 46-inch touch screen LCD powered by any light source

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At CeBIT 2011, Samsung showed a crazy prototype display which was powered entirely by ambient light. Samsung has tweaked its existing transparent LCD technology to actually work on just ambient light.

Samsung demoed this prototype model with some pretty amazing specifications to boot. The 46-inch LCD screen has a resolution of 1920x1080 as well as touch screen with full ten finger recognition. The type of panel used here is a VA panel and will mostly be implemented for commercial applications. 



From what we can see in the picture, the color reproduction doesn't seem to be all that great but then again, it's just a prototype and the fact that it's working with nothing but ambient light is an engineering feat in itself. No word on pricing or any other details yet but expect it to cost a bomb.  


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Sean
,Toronto, on Mar 12, 2011 01:42 AM
"the color reproduction doesn't seem to be all that great" - if you think about it, theoretically, the color quality could never improve. The white point of every pixel in the display is basically whatever light is coming from behind it--if there's a green light behind that pixel, that will be it's white point, etc, etc. Same for all the other 2M pixels. It just doesn't make any sense that the color quality will ever get better, because otherwise it wouldn't be an ambient light display. If they could somehow make the LCD matrix actually actively light up each pixel, while still being translucent (which sounds like going against the laws of physics to be honest), then the color could be improved. Actually, OLED's are self-lit pixels, but I doubt they could ever be made translucent.
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