LG reveals transparent OLED screens you can actually use at home

LG reveals transparent OLED screens yous tin really utilise at home

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LG transparent OLED screens take been around for a while, only only in the form of business organization signage. That volition alter soon, every bit LG has announced a new ready of encounter-through displays, including 1 you can actually accept at dwelling.

The 'Smart Bed' includes a frame from which, at the push button of a button, LG's latest 55-inch transparent OLED screen will rise, so you can peer at the futuristic Boob tube from under the covers. The Smart Bed will be shown in more detail during the all-digital CES 2021 in January.

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LG boasts that its transparent OLED tech manages 40% transparency, compared to existing transparent LCD screens that only realize 10% transparency. That means that areas not displaying anything will have a clearer, more glass-like quality.

The Smart Bed is office of a wider attempt to move transparent OLEDs into spaces where they tin be more readily interacted with than uncomplicated signage. LG's CES plans too include a 'Eating house Zone' where sushi bar customers can use the screens to entertain themselves while being able to run into a chef prepare their food backside the display. Presumably this volition be shown in a prerecorded video or livestream evidence, as the next CES won't accept any in-person attendees.

LG will as well demonstrate how the transparent OLED screen can replace the windows in a train carriage, which would combine information delivery for passengers with the viewing capabilities of…well, a window.

Since LG hasn't hinted at whatever kind of pricing or availability for the Smart Bed, the kickoff incarnation of its transparent OLED tech for home employ, it'due south probable that consumer-grade models are closer to the prototyping stage than the concluding product. See-through screens look absurd only in terms of next-gen panel engineering you lot tin buy in the imminent future, you might desire to keep an eye on LG'due south other big brandish reveal at CES 2021: its first QNED Mini LED TV.

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