Rad. This reminds me of the gadgets in The Diamond Age.
That is exactly what I hope to see tech evolve into. Invisible and perfectly usable, embedded into the shapes of items that people have been using for centuries. Books, pens, coins, watches, windows (for real this time), and so forth.
Funny you should mention non-screen displays. There was a NYT business article some months back in advance of a public demo of just such a system intended, as I recall, for use with computers. The inventor, whose name I regretably have spaced, was understandably very cagey about just how it was done. But the vague implication was that it had something to do with a device that emitted some manner of cloud of (presumably) reactive…something. Molecules of something, a gas of some sort, or maybe little tiny 1-pixel-sized monitors that evaporate?
Rad. This reminds me of the gadgets in The Diamond Age.
That is exactly what I hope to see tech evolve into. Invisible and perfectly usable, embedded into the shapes of items that people have been using for centuries. Books, pens, coins, watches, windows (for real this time), and so forth.
Funny you should mention non-screen displays. There was a NYT business article some months back in advance of a public demo of just such a system intended, as I recall, for use with computers. The inventor, whose name I regretably have spaced, was understandably very cagey about just how it was done. But the vague implication was that it had something to do with a device that emitted some manner of cloud of (presumably) reactive…something. Molecules of something, a gas of some sort, or maybe little tiny 1-pixel-sized monitors that evaporate?