These days many of us own a smart phone which is thin, rectangular and featured with a big screen. But how would it feel if they are transparent and provide more features than those which are used today???
Amazing….right???
Yes, a fully transparent smartphones are developed by Taiwanese company “Polytron Technologies”, giving us hope for fancy smartphones far different from common models seen these days.
INTRODUCTION:
Transparent smart phones allow us to see through the phone and what’s being displayed on the glass screen. This technology has been around in the past two to three decades. But only since 2012 it’s being incorporated by the corporate companies like Samsung, Planar systems etc.
These smart phones will enhance our views of the world with digital images overlaid on the real ones.
How it works:
Transparent smart phones are being designed using the OLED and LCD technologies.
OLED technology:
Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) has an emissive electroluminescent layer made of organic compound which emits light in response to electric current. This layer is placed in between two electrodes made of organic semiconductors, atleast one of the electrode being transparent. This has an emissive and conductive layer where the electric impulse travels from conductive layer to the emissive layer.
This is the most commonly employed technology in transparent devices and digital displays.
Prototype of OLED’s
LCD DISPLAYS:
This technology can’t be seen through because of their thickness and due to their inability to emit light on their own. But the liquid crystal technology can be used by backlighting. When power is off, the liquid crystal molecules are in a random orientation and scatter the incident light. And when power is on, the molecules arrange themselves in a line and allow the light to pass through them.
This technology is the cheap alternative to the OLED technology.
Researchers are also working to develop the transparent devices using Nano Technology.
Uses:
This technology has the best use in case of augmented reality.
Transparent devices have much more resolution and displays much more realistic augmented video than which takes the video and adds the supplements and then displays back on to our screens.
In text translation:
Generally when the user points the camera to a sign board in one language and it automatically gets translated into the language of the user choice.
But in the case of transparent devices there is no need to use the camera.
In street view:
The technology is similar to that of Google street view.
In shopping windows:
Here the user can see the item and the corresponding details of it at the same time.
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-v.nandini
Techteam ,NA