Your next OLED TV could hold your Elf on a Shelf, too

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LG Display seems hell-out to squeezing transparent OLED tech into every piece of furniture in our homes, offices, and department stores. At CES 2022, the company is announcing a handful of oddball and galvanizing semi-crystal clear exhibit innovations, including a bookshelf, called OLED Shelf, that doubles as a larger, hanging exhibit.

So, the Asian nation tech giant's latest targets include windows, display cases, and even bookshelves -- unlikely locations for transparent screens, perhaps, simply a fair signal of how tech is transforming our lives.

Organic light-emitting diode (integrated light-emitting diode) screens are now wafer-thin and light enough to go about anywhere, in part because they do not require backlighting. Last week, LG Display unveiled OLED screens in a rotating elementary chair and as a head-to-toe curved display for a spin pedal.

For its OLED Shelf, LG hung two 55-inch 40%-filmy OLED panels from a fence in shelf (LG claims these are the largest transparent OLEDs in the world). The two screens are serially connected and hang down to another base ledge to form a relatively rigid frame. The top concealment serves as a traditional TV, spell the bottom half is more of a hands-off display for showing weather, news, and other updates.

When it's fourth dimension to watch TV, an opaque screen rolls down from the top shelf, appropriate behind the transcend OLED presentation, which offers active 400 nits of brightness.

Even when you're non observance TV, the top display can show disconnected a gallery of graphics and the bottom CRT screen toilet cater context for the double happening the top screen, itemisation the artist and when they created the work.

LG told TechRadar the product is ready for commercial production, merely they still need a partner to build and sell the system. As for what the shelf can hold, LG told us it's bullocky sufficiency for many knick-knacks ilk a vase or your holiday elf.

Group meeting of the future

LG is likewise pushing the limits of what you can do with you bet we might think all but display transparency. In its Show Window concept, LG demonstrated how a transparent instrument panel could be built into a corporate meeting room windowpane (the wiring and power are hidden in the window bezel).

Even as the display allows for an effectively clear view of the outside world, the OLED technology displays a telecasting of encounter participants and touch-sort presentation elements. There's likewise the possibility of the Display window oblation a windowpane into a completely different world – if we ever adopt the Metaverse and add it to our incorporated meeting routine.

LG is also collaborating with retailers in Confederacy Korean Peninsula to integrate transparent Organic light-emitting diode displays with product showcases, surgery what it calls "Shopping Managing Show window," which places a transparent OLED at heart a wooden display case. Inside the incase are physical products. Customers looking finished the OLED screens project both the real products and visually attractive and, sometimes, useful video entropy (like topical sales).

There's also a new "Show Window" conception that looks, naturally, care a free-dead windowpane, just each Ze is a transparent OLED screen that could be used for advertising or even to display personal messaging to a passer-by (our guess is that this could expend beacon technology to connect with expiration smartphones and, with permission, use shared selective information to create the messaging).

In Japan and China, LG's see-through screens are coming into court in subway system systems where riders can both see outside the rail cars and get information about their trips on the filmy OLED-covered windows.

From shelves to products cases, and bureau windows, the possibilities with OLED are seemingly endless. Yet, LG Display and its partners have yet to overcome the technology's biggest hurdle: toll. A limber OLED that's used in LG's rollable TV, which rolls out of a narrow box to become a set, 65-inch 4K Goggle bo, shut up costs $100,000.

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