APPLYING TECHNOLOGY TO DISPLAYS

"Step into the 3D world."

The poster reads...

You are not kidding.

At the Society For Information Display's (SID) convention in Seattle, WA May 25-27, 2010 it was 3D all over.

The demonstrations ranged from a giant 84" panel from Samsung with a 3D screen resolution 4 X High Definition (3,840 X 2,160), that you viewed with glasses, to small mobile device 3D displays that give you a crisp 4-6" 3D image you can see without glasses.

The SID show is not so much about finished products that you can go out and get at Best Buy today. This show is where the people who make those display systems you buy at retail get their technology and technology components. It is the ultimate annual display dweeb fest.

It is the place to catch the industry's themes and directions, as well as understanding what will be at retails in a year or two.

The themes for 2010 are:
1. 3D Everything
From display technologies to the manufacturing and testing tools to put the technologies to market.

2. Multi-touch

So you can expect to touch and pinch everything over the coming years.

3. OLED (Organic Light -Emitting Diode)

An up and coming display technology that make thinner, lower power and even flexible displays possible.

4. Low power consumption

Technologies that make our large home screens 4 times as power efficient, to laptops and pads that will run for weeks without recharging.

5. Thin

All the way to flexible!

I gathered a lot of material and shot some great interviews that I will be bringing you over the coming weeks.

Stay tuned!

This is Theo looking at how the industry is applying technologies to displays.