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Janak Parekh
04-10-2003, 03:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.eet.com/sys/news/OEG20030404S0014' target='_blank'>http://www.eet.com/sys/news/OEG20030404S0014</a><br /><br /></div>"Toshiba Matsu****a Display Technology Co., Ltd. has added an image capturing function to its low-temperature polysilicon liquid crystal displays. A 3.5-inch diagonal LTPS LCD dubbed Input Display has an optical sensor for each pixel. The transmissive type color display with a QVGA (320x240 pixels) resolution, when placed on an object, scans an area of actual display size and captures it as a 960x240-pixel monochrome image."<br /><br />This is one of those inventions from left field that could really create a new niche for handheld computing. Imagine if you could use your PDA to scan news clippings and other materials! However, do note that this is a transmissive screen, and who knows how it'll look...

Jimmy Dodd
04-10-2003, 03:37 PM
There's a classic help-desk legend about the user who complains that her PC's fax software isn't working. Support guy follows her through the steps until she holds a paper document against her monitor screen and hits the transmit button in order to fax it.

Turns out she was just ahead of her time, I guess. :lol:

T-Will
04-10-2003, 05:27 PM
LOL! Wow that sounds like really cool technology, it'll be interesting to see how it's really used in the real world.

rlobrecht
04-10-2003, 05:53 PM
There's a classic help-desk legend about the user who complains that her PC's fax software isn't working. Support guy follows her through the steps until she holds a paper document against her monitor screen and hits the transmit button in order to fax it.

Turns out she was just ahead of her time, I guess. :lol:

Wow. This reads like a /. post http://slashdot.org/articles/03/04/10/1525217.shtml?tid=196

Jimmy Dodd
04-10-2003, 06:20 PM
There's a classic help-desk legend about the user who complains that her PC's fax software isn't working. Support guy follows her through the steps until she holds a paper document against her monitor screen and hits the transmit button in order to fax it.

Turns out she was just ahead of her time, I guess. :lol:

Wow. This reads like a /. post http://slashdot.org/articles/03/04/10/1525217.shtml?tid=196

Great minds think alike, as they say... :D

Cracknell
04-10-2003, 06:23 PM
great, now we have to worry that every monitor in the planet is potentially a spy device.

3 generation down from this initial prototype, it will have the sharpness of current 3Mega pixel camera. I wouldn't want my computer to learn reading lips that's for sure. This combined with microsoft and TIA will make HAL looks like a benign home calculator.

Jonathan1
04-10-2003, 09:47 PM
Hmmm to access your desktop, laptop, or pocket pc computer you would put your thumb on the screen. Cool.

Peter Traugot
04-10-2003, 10:27 PM
COOL! No more going to the PUBLIC copy room to make scans of your butt! 8O

Sheynk
04-10-2003, 11:58 PM
COOL! No more going to the PUBLIC copy room to make scans of your butt! 8O

can you imagine if you posted a little earlier :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Peter Traugot
04-11-2003, 12:37 AM
Yea, crappy timing on my end. I need to read the board more often. [sigh]

Fitch
04-11-2003, 04:19 PM
If these things ever do act as cameras (and I can't see how, considering they really couldn't "Focus" on anything that's not up against the scanning LCDs, they will make for great video phones-- that is, eye contact!
I think the reason people thing video phones are unusual now, is that the person you're talking to is always looking away from you.