Samsung showed off its prototype for a transparent LCD touchscreen at the SID International Symposium.  Because the display is transparent, this creates the tricky issue of where to hide the backlights. Samsung solved this issue by cleverly hiding LED lights in the borders of the screen, which can automatically detect poor lighting conditions. It will be interesting to see how this technology is used: in store front windows, backseat car windows for boring road trips with the fam… I’d love to see a coffe table book be the actual coffee table.

Enjoy the always sketchy prototype video above.

via OLED-Info and Techi

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Meet the Glass Infrastructure. An open social information network comprised of 30 touch screens placed throughout the MIT Media Lab. Its purpose is to create an augmented media experience that helps visitors, students, faculty, and even the janitors, to access information and multimedia from the 130 or so projects going on in the building at any particular time. Also, like IBM’s future digital billboards, these screens will also have the ability to scan RFID badges on any building visitor if they come within 5-10 feet of the screen. This will allow automatic log in and will display the person’s personal portfolio.

MIT Media Lab RFID Badge

Each screen will give incentive to visitors to interact and explore the projects throughout the building. When a visitor logs in, he or she can view what projects are closest by proximity or by previous interest that the computer keeps in your profile. The network also encourages users to socialize and talk. More then one person can log in at the same time to promote discussion, exchange information on projects, and collect each others information. To further provide a social experience, there is a “Leader board” displayed across two large screens that displays a live news feed of the Glass Infrastructure.

via Digital Signage Today
pics via curiouslee’s Flickr

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