[GreenBoy2]

One of the down sides of this kind of tech is that it will be capitalised by advertising.

Imagine fully animated bilboards - everywhere including, and this is where this tech will come into its own - on shaped surfasces such as round columns - every shopping mall will become a wall to wall advertisers wet dream.

[GreenBoy2]

One of the down sides of this kind of tech is that it will be capitalised by advertising.

Imagine fully animated bilboards - everywhere including, and this is where this tech will come into its own - on shaped surfasces such as round columns - every shopping mall will become a wall to wall advertisers wet dream.

[Ryan Joseph]

Originally Posted by GreenBoy2

One of the down sides of this kind of tech is that it will be capitalised by advertising.

Imagine fully animated bilboards - everywhere including, and this is where this tech will come into its own - on shaped surfasces such as round columns - every shopping mall will become a wall to wall advertisers wet dream.

Actually, I think that sounds cool. We live in a world dominated by advertising anyway, so why not make it dynamic and interesting? Full motion video ads everywhere including shaped surfaces? Cool!

[Jonathan1]

Pocketable bar PDA's can't come soon enough. The problem is how do you unroll one and have it rigid enough to work on. While still allowing it to fold up into the "bar" So clearly there's tech there that needs to be refined beyond simply just the screen. But beyond that what about the battery? Hopefully fuel cells will become a serious reality by then because as much space as a screen takes up there is a whole heck of a lot used by the battery. Finally how about other techs that might find their way into PDA's or even PDA phones. Directional audio anyone? Imagine browsing the WWW2 and having some iTunes playing in your ear (Oh did I forget to mention that Apple released iTunes for Windows Mobile 2007?) without headphones and without bugging the crap out of the person next to you.

Oh and an entire wall of my house a high def TV? Ya I pretty sure I would like that...then again I'm pretty sure I'd have to sell my soul to afford one. 8O

[Jonathan1]

Originally Posted by GreenBoy2

Imagine fully animated bilboards - everywhere including, and this is where this tech will come into its own

However I think at some point there will be laws preventing moving advertisements within a certain distance from any major highway or interstate. Moving ads are about as distracting as riced out cars with blinking lights on them and that IS illegal in most places.

And I think moving ads in malls will only go so far. There will most likely be an explosion of them when the tech comes out in cheap quantity because anything new is always like that but given enough time advertisers will realize that:
1. such billboards need power and electrical outlets aren't always in easy reach everywhere.
2. Too many moving boards simply blends in together and doesn't stand out.

[Mark Johnson]

Originally Posted by Jonathan1

2. Too many moving boards simply blends in together and doesn't stand out.

I really hope you're right. I've got this nightmare vision of a shopping mall where every surface is a series of those unbelievably annoying multi-color "You've Wone!" banner ads that "jiggle." Oh! The humanity of it all! :lol:

[rocky_raher]

Originally Posted by dean_shan

If it was cheap you could make it the wallpaper in your house. Then when you grow tired of one pattern you just change it with no fuss at all.

IIRC, Bill Gates equipped his new house with HDTV screens in each room, with a setup so that they would display works of art by the favorite artist(s) of his guests. Wallpaper like this, if it becomes affordable, will enable anyone to have such a changeable gallery about his house.

[rocky_raher]

Originally Posted by Jonathan1

...what about the battery?

How about a mini generator tied to the screen roller? The act of pulling out the screen would generate a small amount of electricity.

Remember how a self-winding watch works? A small pendulum uses the movement of your wrist to keep the mainspring wound. If a PDA had a small pendulum attached to a small generator, every little motion would add a small charge to the battery. You could keep a full charge just by having your PDA in your pocket as you walk around.

[KimVette]

Originally Posted by nGage

Anyone ever watched a TV series called Earth Final Conflict?

That Gene Roddenbury show that lasted only one season? Yeah I watched it. I watched another show by the same title for the following four years, but it was a totally different show.

They use a Mobile phone / PDA type device called a "Global" and it has a pull out screen. I think that it is a very well worked out fictional device and with roll-out screens, it is probably not too far off the mark.

The "Global" was what I thought of when I first saw the iPAQ and thought about the (still under development) upcoming rollable display. It's not all that far off!

[rocky_raher]

Originally Posted by Jonathan1

Oh and an entire wall of my house a high def TV?

In Ray Bradbury's "Farenheit 451," the main character's wife had a room in which 3 walls were floor-to-ceiling TV's. Programming apparently was provided for the side walls, kinda like the alternate camera angles available on DVD's. She begged him for a wall TV to replace the fourth wall, so she'd have her own little TV world (almost like a holodeck).

Bradbury also predicted interactive TV in that novel.