Diginfo reports on a novel type of mobile display, presented by Japan Display. Japan Display actually showed off three prototypes, which bring together mobile display tech from Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi. Japan Display was jointly established six months ago by those three companies.
Japan Display was showing off three different displays: first, a five-inch HD 438 ppi smartphone display; second, a seven-inch 2560×1600 pixel tablet display; and finally—and perhaps coolest—a 12.2-inch 1920×720 car display. Japan Display achieved that last feat by curving the panel and rounding the edges. (Will we be seeing “smart dashboards” in cars soon?) The displays, as you’ll see in Diginfo’s video, are super thin—less than a millimeter thick, actually.
One reason Japan Display was able to make the displays so thin, according to a rep quoted by Diginfo, is that they integrated the touch-panel directly to the display, “rather than being attached from outside.” They call this tech “Pixel Eyes,” and they say it’ll bring the next wave of pen-drawing on tablets and phones (see “A Stylus You Can Talk To.”)
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