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[XMark]

Looks like large-screen OLED TVs are finally here! Or will be in May:
http://www.zdnet.com...ced-in-may/5759

$8000 for a 55-inch OLED display, which is waaaaaay too expensive for regular people but is actually a relatively cheap price for a brand new large-screen display technology.

Once a few competitors jump into the game and the OLED production techniques get more streamlined, we'll see prices go down to affordable levels and OLED is gonna explode everywhere.

And then after that, we'll get the really interesting part, when companies start releasing screens that take full advantage of OLED's potential. We're talking flexible, foldable screens or transparent displays in windows. And considering that theoretically OLED can be produced far more cheaply than any existing display technology, we'll be seeing displays in all sorts of places which would have been cost-prohibitive before, basically making every city look like Times Square meets Blade Runner

[Nario]

Awwwwwwweeeeeeesome.

[Cursed Lemon]

Looks like large-screen OLED TVs are finally here! Or will be in May:
http://www.zdnet.com...ced-in-may/5759

$8000 for a 55-inch OLED display, which is waaaaaay too expensive for regular people but is actually a relatively cheap price for a brand new large-screen display technology.

Once a few competitors jump into the game and the OLED production techniques get more streamlined, we'll see prices go down to affordable levels and OLED is gonna explode everywhere.

And then after that, we'll get the really interesting part, when companies start releasing screens that take full advantage of OLED's potential. We're talking flexible, foldable screens or transparent displays in windows. And considering that theoretically OLED can be produced far more cheaply than any existing display technology, we'll be seeing displays in all sorts of places which would have been cost-prohibitive before, basically making every city look like Times Square meets Blade Runner

Until it rains. =P

[Rize]

Looks like large-screen OLED TVs are finally here! Or will be in May:
http://www.zdnet.com...ced-in-may/5759

$8000 for a 55-inch OLED display, which is waaaaaay too expensive for regular people but is actually a relatively cheap price for a brand new large-screen display technology.

Once a few competitors jump into the game and the OLED production techniques get more streamlined, we'll see prices go down to affordable levels and OLED is gonna explode everywhere.

And then after that, we'll get the really interesting part, when companies start releasing screens that take full advantage of OLED's potential. We're talking flexible, foldable screens or transparent displays in windows. And considering that theoretically OLED can be produced far more cheaply than any existing display technology, we'll be seeing displays in all sorts of places which would have been cost-prohibitive before, basically making every city look like Times Square meets Blade Runner

I just want to get one for gaming! Although my plasma has been manageable, I can't seem to put the fear of burn in behind me. I'll play a game once that normally I'd play twice. I'm avoiding classic games. If a game is marginal I won't play it at all. It's good when it's good, but I can't wait to have a giant screen with the combination of quality and resistance to burn in instead of either (LCD) or (plasma).

It's going to have to come down to at least 3,000 for a 50" before I can justify getting one though. That's going to take at least a couple years.

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huuuuh... looks like OLED is not as invincible to burn-in as I thought. Apparently they are not as bad as plasmas though so perhaps it would still be worth it due to being more manageable. alternatively, for the prices they are charging, I might be able to find a top of the line LCD. Oh well. I will just have to dream for now.

[armor]

BEARRRR NOOOOOOOOOOOO

[XMark]

Oh god, those gummy bear screams will haunt my nightmares.

So, I've been reading up on upcoming OLED TVs from Samsung and LG, and those were pretty exciting. Earlier this year, Sony pulled out of the consumer OLED market, which seemed kind of insane to me. But apparently Sony's trying something different that they call Crystal LED Apparently it's just a bunch of regular red, green, and blue LEDs that make up the pixels (no backlight). So I'm thinking Sony might actually get an early upper hand because they're kind of adapting and evolving known technologies instead of jumping way out into a new one.

LG and Samsung competing with each others' OLED screens, while Sony's trying to compete against OLED with Crystal LED. I think we're gonna see some pretty fast progress with this kind of competition.

Then again, I'm kind of interested in the theoretical idea of a Field Emission Display, which is basically making a screen out of millions of teeny tiny CRT monitors

[Sam]

The flying car

It's not yet as cool as what the Jetsons drive, but it seems like a good start to me.

Sam, the Neon Orange Knight

[Guy In Rubber Suit]

The flying car

It's not yet as cool as what the Jetsons drive, but it seems like a good start to me.

Sam, the Neon Orange Knight

I don't think flying cars are very good idea at all. I'd much rather prefer a driverless car. Such as, the one that Google has been working on for a few years now. Of course, there would have to be a lot of redundancies and fail safes put in place to keep hacking to a minimum and probably any other precaution. There are have been several simulations done as well showing that automated vehicles would not only be safer than human drivers, but also more efficient and quicker to getting to the destination.

[Radioeyes]

I could maybe see flying taxis or flying buses, but flying personal cars? Letting any idiot get that thing tangled in power lines is just dumb. Maybe if you live in the Australian Outback and your nearest grocery store is 50 mi away...

I'd be willing to bet that the next big things in transportation are natural gas-powered buses and taxis.

[weener]

That's the one area where my city isn't in the stone age. All the buses in Phoenix are natural gas powered.

[Ryan8bit]

I could maybe see flying taxis or flying buses, but flying personal cars? Letting any idiot get that thing tangled in power lines is just dumb. Maybe if you live in the Australian Outback and your nearest grocery store is 50 mi away...

Flying cars will never be a reality for the average consumer. Even the rich people who can afford this kind of thing would still have to get a pilot's license, and at that point they might as well get a real plane. That it doubles as a car is a gimmick since if you had that money you wouldn't want to drive something so expensive yet so awkward on the road. Also, the fact that runways aren't available where you'd be going, that really just makes it a gimmick.

On top of all this, having even a sizable portion of people with flying cars allowed in the cities would be a disaster waiting to happen.

[Rize]

I'd much rather prefer a driverless car. Such as, the one that Google has been working on for a few years now. Of course, there would have to be a lot of redundancies and fail safes put in place to keep hacking to a minimum and probably any other precaution. There are have been several simulations done as well showing that automated vehicles would not only be safer than human drivers, but also more efficient and quicker to getting to the destination.

Very true. Human drivers are incredibly inefficient at handling traffic congestion and of course we get into accidents far more often than a computer would.

The problem with computers driving the cars instead of people though is that there would have to be essentially ZERO accidents because the people/companies who make the computer driving system would be liable for the accidents, have tons of money and people could sue the shit out of them. The government would have to make special laws protecting them from ordinary lawsuits. The reason for doing that would be that, despite random accidents occurring now and then, overall the safety is greatly improved. However, failing to protect the companies, at least to some degree (they shouldn't be protected from gross negligence), would probably preclude inventing the technologies to begin with.

It will start out with cars being able to drive themselves, but the feature will be treated as cruise control. You're expected to monitor the vehicle at all times. Eventually private motoring will be outlawed entirely as a safety and efficiency matter (we'll save tons of gas in self-driven cars too).

[Shervz0r]

I strongly doubt any traction self-driving cars will gain in the general consumer auto market given that the average testosterone-fueled man actually enjoys driving.

[Rize]

It will be a fancy option at first. People will set the car to auto-drive and read a book or magazine with the radio on in the background. That would catch on. Of course, these self-driven cars will drive strictly at the speed-limit (except when road conditions require driving more slowly), so you will have people who zip around them... however THAT will make the majority who embrace automatic driving annoyed and fearful. There will be a push, first, to make extra harsh laws governing manual drivers based on the fact that it's so much more dangerous than letting the car auto-drive. Eventually they will make driving illegal entirely because it's too dangerous to allow people to do it when there are alternatives already in place.

The funny thing is, it would be easy as pie to make cars self drive if every car was self-drive capable. Cars could be routed like data packets in a computer network. However, since the first self driving cars need to compete with human drivers, that is a big hurdle to climb to get it all started. Because of that, the original self driving cars will be more dangerous than later models.

This all assumes society holds it together and technology continues improving. It also assumes we don't switch away from an individually driven car centric society entirely.

[XMark]

Even if a self-driving car were proven to be 100 times safer than a good human driver, it would be really tough for self-driving cars to get off the ground because liability for accidents would shift to the creators of the self-driving AIs rather than individual drivers.