It's all surprisingly close, a screen and headset function similar to the movie Minority Report. The transparent computer screen and interfaced headset that Tom Cruise used to catch criminals and read images from a person's mind and prevent tragedies. Korea IT Times (KIT) interviewed multiple companies and visited dozens of events, especially the LED (light emitting diodes) and OLED (organic light emitting diodes) 2010 at the KINTEX yesterday, to find out if it could be done if we had deep pockets. What we found was most interesting.
The LED and OLED industry was always about convergence of sorts. This is easily noticed by observing that most lighting companies also manufacture TVs. So a lot of convergence thinking is helpful in applying the technologies to sectors, functions and markets. And talk convergence is precisely what KIT did, with hypothetical questions to experts about what we will call the FMRS+, the female's minority report screen and some, for the sake of convenience.
When KIT set out to show you, the reader, how you can make a Minority Report screen we discovered that Samsung and LG already did it, to an extent, so we thought, let's imagine we had deeper pockets and were in competition with them, what would we do Since there is still a chance for competition as the last Samsung transparent AMOLED release was 30 percent transparency.
We would do better than them is the answer and this is how. With the recent market knowledge of Samsung LED sales into five star hotels, we thought about how to make a screen to remove the imaginary competitor by converging the room TV, computer, power generation, heating and lighting, most things we could think of, into, the feminine element of the room, the common mirror, the FMRS+ series. Though you will find, in loose concepts and product connections, all of the links you need to create a product similar to the movie, as you read.
Here is what we think, aside from a generous investor, could be bought together to make it happen...
For touchless communication, for when in bed or cooking
In Daejeon, amongst Korea's leading research institutes and universities is the Daedeok Innopolis. One of the star products in the Innopolis is the MINDSET. The MINDSET is a brainwave detecting headset with which it is possible to send messages to a computer and move, for example, a mouse on a screen or draw. MINDSET is made by S&T Global inc. The product has great application for psychology, learning, disabilities and indulgence and the FMRS+.
For the screen
KIT envisage that a good setting for the FMRS+ is a hotel room, a bedroom or bathroom, for convenience and indulgence. But we can also imagine this in a standard, but very smart, home.
Wide screens are here and enjoyable wherever they are so the concept need only be stretched to a full wall. And we are not talking projectors, it is 2010. Here are two ways we could approach the FMRS+ screen.
Pixel pitch squares
LS, Planet Systems Co., Ltd. have developed an IMAGE LED lighting display and on questioning about the underlying concept it was found that it might be applied in the FMRS+.
The display works by lighting individual backlit squares that are covered by a touchscreen that is interfaced to a video server. When you touch a square the light converges to your fingertip location.
On investigation, Planet Systems Co., Ltd. said that the system and control software could be wired to a computer rather than a video as the pictured display was. The squares in the display technology equate to the concept of pixels and Planet System's squares exhibit multiple colors at once and support the FMRS+ concept.
The main block in joining the hypothetical FMRS+ team, said Steve Lee, general manager of the LED sales team, is, 'the funding required to increase the pixel pitch to make letters.'
LED and OLED
These methods have technologies patented or belonging to multiple Korean companies that KIT thinks could be brainstormed to be converged for the FMRS+.
More imagination is needed to read forward of this point...
LED
Fawoo technology have patented a CNC'd flat panel for lighting and displays, the LUMISHEET. Their technology, we side with the CEO's advisor with, in agreeing that it is revolutionary, because it distributes LED light evenly throughout their material whereas many other products are simple LED lights with diffuser panels. Fawoo have also researched and developed color LUMISHEET so it may be only a matter of time before they reach the level that AMOLED research has.
KIT would like, for the FMRS+ hypothetical project, to see Fawoo Technology have a chat with NNP Technology, nanomaterials manufacturers.
NNP technology produce honey combed NANO SILVER CIRCUIT touchscreen materials. This is the same type of coating material in the Pixel Pitch method but we suggest converging the ability to sense touch and project light, into the same material.
OLED
Champ Huang, director of sales for Lustrous said at LED and OLED 2010 what Samsung, LG and many already know, that OLED can be embedded with transparent material and AMOLED can be transparent. So all that is needed is the drive to converge Not quite...
The + in the FMRS+
The FMRS+ concept is to fit the computer and TV into a common mirror.
Michael Lebby, general manager and chief technology officer of Translucent earth abundant materials said, "LCD with an LED backlight could produce a transmissive and reflective effect but it might not be high quality." It has been acknowledged that due to TV that LED has been more about lights than mirror effects. AMOLED is touted as a possible material but some say it is not yet refined enough for a comparison with a commercial mirror.
What needs to be done for the FMRS+
- Reflectivity for LED and OLED needs to be researched a little more and end up possible.
The FMRS+ is possible with deep pockets at the current level of research if the transparent wall is neglected and we are suffice with crude mirror effects. Because of the safety a transparent wall might bring to a home with small kids and space perceptions, we wont budge on refinement just yet.
After a while, KIT would hope to release the FMRS++, a TV converged with a computer screen, operable by touch or mind control headset, able to be also used as an evenly distributed light source.
Given market acceptance and fair profit, KIT would next hope to replace the obsolete mirrored wall with the 3GFMRS series, a TV converged with a computer screen, operable by touch or headset, able to be also used as a light and for heating.
The ability to run heat through transparent material was pioneered in Korea by Jung Air Technics. Jung Air were on display recently at the ENVEX (the 32nd international exhibition on Environmental Technology and Green Energy) in a combined Smarthome with Fawoo.
The next question raised amongst pundits while discussing the FMRS+ concept at the KINTEX was, can we light the windows KIT think it is possible right now. A lighting professional told KIT at the LED and OLED conference that, "this is what the industry wants, they want this, they want to control the whole room." No more needed to be said.
Our FMRS 3G 'To do' list:
- CNC embedded glass or transparent material for lighting (and additional functions on order such as mirror effects for mirror glass or heating or a landscape picture if the view is bad),
- Interface the window into the Smarthome with ENERGLE, after which it is immediately able to be operated remotely, namely, blacked out if you go on holiday,
- Add the use of KIST (Korea Institute of Science and Technology) developed solar film and the lighting window feature doubles its value proposition to Green Tech consumers by its ability to produce power.
We could have brainstormed on in the Grand Ballroom on the third floor of the KINTEX at the LED and OLED conference but the next speaker was waiting.
What KIT pulled from the imaginary buying session, and what we hope to have conveyed, is that despite the pull of funding by surrogate or stimulation investors in LED and OLED in recent years, there are a great many possibilities for LED and OLED.
The Hypothetical FMRS+ supplier/advisor list:
The LED and OLED exhibition is on at the KINTEX until the 25th June 2010.
