Multi touch, image sensing and power generating diodes in display

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Multi touch, image sensing and power generating diodes in display

360 points posted to Desktops, Monitors and Displays by j.bandringa 07/09/07

I would like to have an image sensing, power generating and multi touch display. Multifunctional organic diodes can do this.

Multifunctional organic diodes can:

• Show you something like a regular display (OLED);

• See you like a webcam (photodiode);

• Built multi touch sensing displays;

• Generate electricity like a solar cell.

I would like Dell to promote research in this field. Here you find a patent of a multifunctional organic diode. It's written in Japanese though. Take a look at the videos in the comments if you want.

j.bandringa 07/10/07	To get an idea OLED Webcam • Apple is working on a display that sees you. Read the full patent, here. • Sharp develops LCD Panel Embedded with Image Sensor • An other patent for a display type image sensor Multi touch Solar panel This article tells about research on an OLED that can produce electricty.
arcette 07/14/07	Sure that's cool but I really doubt that the technology can be implemented within the next 10 or 20 years.Even then it'll be outrageously priced.
j.bandringa 08/11/07	I would like Dell to make this idea become reality faster and cheaper than you think :) .
mlazarov Mar 26	There are already prototypes of image-sensing displays made by a company called Planar (shown at SIGGRAPH 2007) using conventional TFT manufacturing. The problem with these displays is that they effectively act as scanners without any imaging optics (like a camera lens). I don't think a microlens array would even address this problem.

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