LG designs double-sided TV display So the missus wants some quality time together, but she wants to watch Emmerdale and you want to watch Battlestar Galactica. What do you do? You get yourself a double-sided telly, of course. LG_double_sided_screen_shot_03 LG's plans for double-sided displays Image courtesy Tech On LG recently showed off designs for two …
I would have thought this would be rather more useful for laptops, you could have the effect of one of those tablet PC's without all the nasty weak hinges!
Plus - picture windows! Are the screens transparent when off? You could have some very nice screens as windows, advertising on the outside, TV on the inside and a window the rest of the time!
I fail to share the authors enthusiam- this seems like a really silly idea
why would you want a display to show a different image on both sides? I can only think of tradeshows as an example of where this would be useful, and that's not a huge market. Plus 2 LCD displays back to back works just fine, really. It would have to be cheaper (or at least similarly priced), to be worthwhile. A shared display for clamshells? okay, but still, big deal?
Whose living room is big enough to have a TV in the centre with chairs on either side and how are you going to stop the sound from one program interferring with the other?
Those viper engines are going to be a bit conspicuous while the Dingles are herding their sheep (or whatever it is they do).
Window insert/replacement.
Add a camera, and you can still see out, you can switch your boring street view to something on TV or to a landscape of your choosing, and best of all, you can present whatever face you want to the world.
Switch on a Yahoo! advert whenever Google's Street View team are coming through, put up semipermanent "Scientology is a Cult" placards, the possibilities are endless!
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