LG Confirms Transparent OLEDs Being Used On Subway Windows in Shenzhen, Beijing August 24, 2020 by Dave Haynes LG Display has confirmed those are versions of its transparent OLEDs being used as information displays on the windows of subway cars in China. I can’t find the source PR, but there are numerous tech blogs like this one reporting and quoting an LG exec about how the company is “the first company in the …
LG Shows Concept Of Sliding Door With 55″ OLED Display Embedded In Glass August 17, 2020 by Dave Haynes
Display Week 2020: LG’s Future OLED Is Bendy, Flexy, See-Thru And As Big As Walls August 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes I am virtually wandering the exhibit hall of SID Display Week – mentally walking right on past a whole bunch of vendors that sell things like polymer microstructures and light measurement tools. But I am stopping and looking at some of what the display guys are toting this year. A lot of it is geared …
LG Gets Serious About Direct View LED With Big Lineup Expansion, Indoor And Out June 17, 2020 by Dave Haynes LG’s US Business Solutions unit is getting very serious about LED – both indoor and outdoor. The Korean display giant was kind of late to the direct view LED party – with Samsung, NEC and Philips all showing LED product for the last few years – but this week it announced more than three dozen …
SID Converts Its 2020 Display Week To A Virtual Event June 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes The display industry nerd-fest known as SID/Display Week has been converted to a virtual event, scheduled for August 3-7. Formally known as the 57th International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition, the event put on by the Society for Information Display “will bring together the brightest minds in the display industry to provide insight into the latest …
With Clear Physical Barriers Going Up Everywhere, Is This A Big Moment For Transparent Displays? May 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes It is reasonable to suggest that LG’s transparent OLED displays are products that generate a lot of excitement from potential users, but disillusionment when they find out how much the screens cost (hint – LOTS!). The things are gorgeous, but working out valid use-cases and getting a return on the investment has been elusive. Those …
Beijing Subway Line Adds Transparent Digital Windows On Passenger Cars April 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a video from Beijing’s subway system, in a passenger car that has digital signage running in a window. It is on line 6, and my guess is the display is a transparent OLED. There’s no side lighting to make it LCD and the pitch is, by the looks of it, far too tight …
Dubai’s Burj Khalifa Adds Cracking Virtual Glass Floor, Driven By Sensors January 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes I always have mixed feelings around visual tricks designed to scare the living sh*t out of some unwitting visitors. It’s one thing if you are in a theme park or one of those Halloween pop-up places that are billed as scary. But introducing an abrupt scare into something that is, by nature, intimidating is one …
Hisense Drops OLED To Focus On ULED As Its Premium Display Tech January 22, 2020 by Dave Haynes More turbulence in the OLED display business – with a significant Chinese manufacturer bailing on the tech after only a year, and switching back to LCD. Hisense, which is mainly known for TVs but has a commercial displays business unit, has indicated that the OLED TV it debuted last year was the first and last. …
New Chicago School Has Big (And Big Dollar) OLED Art Feature In Lobby January 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes I have this scene in my head of teachers walking into a brand-new elementary school in Cicero, Illinois, looking at an art installation of 34 OLED displays that run up a wall and make a wavy ceiling, and quietly wondering about their skimpy salaries and tight school supply budgets. Located in Cicero, Illinois, a Chicago …
