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    See-Through Tablets in 2012?

    While tablets are at the cutting edge of modern technology, Samsung Mobile Display wants to make the iPad look about as modern as the Ford Model T.

    This week we got our hands on a Samsung commercial released in Korea for a see-through, flexible tablet that's unlike anything we've ever seen here at This Could Be Big, and we knew we had to find out more.

    The big question is, could this thing be real?

    Looking at the commercial it looks like it's out of a preview for the new Mission Impossible movie. It's a thin piece of glass that's as flexible as jell-o and can be rolled up like a newspaper. It's also expandable, 3-D and can be used as a real time translator.

    Samsung Mobile Display is keeping their lips sealed for now, but expect more from them at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.

    For now, to help uncover the mystery, we spoke with technology journalist Joanna Stern from the TheVerge.com to shine some light on this futuristic technology.

     
    • Mindey  •  West Lafayette, Indiana  •  1 mth 26 days ago
      I'm waiting for one since 2003...
    • Will  •  Buffalo Grove, Illinois  •  4 mths ago
      I want one!
    • Faxness  •  Los Angeles, California  •  5 mths ago
      I was feeling pretty good about finally getting an iPad 2 about three minutes ago...
    • David  •  Beech Grove, United States  •  5 mths ago
      I invented this years ago, but I can't remember where I layed it down....
    • Del  •  5 mths ago
      Is this related to the plans Samsung has to develop graphene technology?
    • SIDE EFFECTS  •  Mentor, Ohio  •  5 mths ago
      Clear pain drama began at the airport were the s-ray revealed everthing butt and what you eat two hours before .....
    • MadMax8600  •  5 mths ago
      I'm waiting for them to put this technology into a contact lense.
      • CUSTOMER 5 mths ago
        I did that, well sort of that... I produced prototype HUD display intraocular lenses for a major pharma medical device company that allows augmented reality to be easily interfaced. My proposal was to use a nasal cavity micro-projector, to interface it. I got paid for the work, but so far... no progress.
      • Ladrak 5 mths ago
        spectrum_ieee_org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens/0
      • America Rocks 5 mths ago
        Sure you did CUSTOMER. Was that before or after you hit the crack pipe?
    • wwtoonlinkfan  •  5 mths ago
      While the display shown in the commercial is obviously fake, the technology behind it already exists in some form or another. Transparent LCDs have existed for some time now, and LG showed their own transparent color LCD at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2007. Current AMOLED screens can also be made transparent, but with the added advantages of less energy usage and built-in backlighting. The screen could simply be an auxillary display for a smartphone, or it could be the main screen of a tablet whose electronics are hidden in a pocket-sized box, also like a smartphone. Only a thin rim around the screen is necessary for screen electronics, and the main electronics could communicate over a secure wireless network or a high-speed wired network.
      • Brian 5 mths ago
        I just have to let you and everyone else here know that this isn't fake, just so you know coming from someone who works in the Nano-Tech industry this technology isn't NEW it's actually about 10 years old it's just the public isn't ready for something like this which is why it hasn't been released. Basically it's all nano-tech which is why the screen and everything else is invisible to the naked eye because it's so small scale it operates on optics and light technology as well which is much too advanced to get into on a public board not to mention it's secrecy. There was a phone we developed while working with Berkeley nano tech in hand with Nokia called the Morph you can see the concept video on youtube as well as an actual 'smuggled' video of it being used in the nano-lab which is completely transparent, fold-able, stretchable, and gets all it's energy through a special film over the screen that works similar to a solar panel, the smuggler lost his job as the phone itself was to be released in 2009 however the gov. stepped in and banned Nokia from releasing it due to the advanced technology it utilizes. The future is now Nano-Technology is a world that the government and world leaders feels they must slowly introduce into the public because if it were just dropped in a lot of questions would be raised as to how it works how it's possible people would freak out because reality that people seem to call reality in reality is much different. they also have the ability to manifest buttons out of the screen in the flick of a finger as with nano-technology we are now able to manipulate at the atomic level. We also developed what some may call a 'harry potter' invisibility cloak that works using nano-tech meta-materials that bends light backwards around an object giving it complete transparency rendering whoever or whatever is behind the mesh material completely invisible. This is actually coming out a little more since we were caught using it in Afghanistan by their news crews which you can also find the video on YouTube however it is constantly re-uploaded as it is removed often by request from the government to YouTube on matters of national security, defense, and confidentiality being the technology is supposed to be of high classification. If you'd like to see that in action YouTube Invisibility Afghanistan it should be one of the first videos to pop up. I will warn you though you will play it a few times because it's hard to believe we've come this far in our technology, that and it gives some people the creeps.
      • Brian 5 mths ago
        Not to mention the cost to the average consumer would be ridiculous and building these on a large scale (high volume production) is not yet available due to the immense amount of technology involved in it very special and extremely expensive equipment and materials are used to develop these this is another reason. Until we have the ability to actually produce these in high volumes that are COST EFFECTIVE the general populace will not see them.
    • Just a Guy  •  Richardson, United States  •  5 mths ago
      That 3D looks a little beyond it's ability right now, Most of the time 3D must be seen by looking into the screen instead of above it. Volumetric displays are possible, but not like that. (Volumetric display is the proper term for what many call holograms)
    • Julie  •  5 mths ago
      dr. whoopie's 3d bb!!!!!
    • Raw_venus  •  5 mths ago
      So when and if your battery dies and/or you lay it down how will be be able to find it, if it is transparent.
      • Libni 5 mths ago
        the same way you find a cup.
      • Stephen levi 5 mths ago
        Maybe it has a cloaking device and the tablet isn't actually invisible, it is just cloaked to look that way. Then, when the batter dies, it loses its cloak.
      • Daniel 5 mths ago
        good question how do you find something that's vertually invisible? especially when not active
    • Initaknow  •  5 mths ago
      looks like they are preparing to implement that into the windshield for future use
    • Mavhu  •  Austin, United States  •  5 mths ago
      oooo too cool, I wish I could create like that.
    • Jay  •  Fair Oaks, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Vaporware!
    • Rick Riccota  •  Cleveland, United States  •  5 mths ago
      yeah,probably need $500.00 glasses and couple hundred $$worth of apps too!!!!!!
    • Gage  •  5 mths ago
      how could you post this as a legitimate story? "oh, it's a slow news day. let's pretend commercials are real."
    • amiel1  •  Makati City, Philippines  •  5 mths ago
      screen protector for ipad?
    • Darius  •  New York, United States  •  5 mths ago
      OH WOW! A FOLDING TABLET!!! That's already been invented. It's called a laptop!!
      • Gambling man 5 mths ago
        Tablets don't have drivers built into them? So it's totally different. Unless u a moron.
      • L------------------------ ... 5 mths ago
        Huh, a Laptop? What the heck is that? A table computer has been around since 2009. Dumb dumb
      • marilyn 5 mths ago
        dude laptop ur a freaking moron.. u should know the diffence between a laptop and tablet
    • Darius  •  New York, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Do you have any idea how far away we are from that kind of technology? I don't even think that would be realistic in a star wars movie.
      • thesmart1 5 mths ago
        are you serious? we already had this technology for a while now.......
      • Daniel 5 mths ago
        we have moveing holograms that walk across rooms if you've ever been on a tour of a technology inventrie then you'll most likely being given a tour of the facility by a hologram but considering there;s no power source i'd have to say someone came up with testlas electriciy drawing from the air thing that had also powered his teleforce that flattened trees over siberia and was claimed to be a exploding meteor
      • Gambling man 5 mths ago
        Darius u sniff to much gas.
    • Work1ders  •  Pittsburgh, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Souinds very kewl, but too kewl to believe they are ready for holographic images in display.

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