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Apple Interactive Displays?

Not interactive displays per se

Like the tipster who sort of got the AirPort Express right, I think the "interactive displays" is more like a small remote for AirPort Express to manage your playlists or something.

That's why Joswiak (I think it was him) said *for now* you have to walk to the computer.
 
MasonMcD said:
That's why Joswiak (I think it was him) said *for now* you have to walk to the computer.
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I would like to have a Airport Express for iPod so I can sync my iPod Playlists and control my Powermac with the iPod.
 
Analog Kid said:
Not to put too fine a point on it-- photovoltaics are wireless power and they've been practical for desktop calculators and roadside emergency phones for years... 😉
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Very true - I was just thinking more large scale and prevalent.
 
OLED+Wacom+Apple=Fantastic

OLED displays generate their own light. They take less power than an LCD and backlight. They are incredibly bright and high contrast. They are incredibly thin and light and can even be slightly flexible.

Wacom technology needs no battery in the pen. The tablet can sense pen pressure, and angle to the surface. You can put buttons on the pen, and/or click by tapping the pen against the screen. Though you need the pen and can't use a finger, the pen is cordless, and it's an important advantage that resting your hand on the surface of the large tablet won't mess up the sensed position of the pen.

Since Wacom tablet technology does not need physical contact with the pen, you can put the OLED display on TOP of the tablet. There are no parallax problems, and only a thin, clear protective film over the display, keeping the brightness very high indeed. Should be no problem at all in the sun.

Add AirPort and a light battery (current rechargable battery tech allows the battery to be as large as the tablet and extremly thin) and you've got one HECK of a mobile display.
 
sonicare

I may be wrong, but it seems that my sonicare toothbrush charges this way. There are no metal contacts on the charger or the brush itself... just smotth plastic on both sides.... dunno...



Second it's not hard to get sufficient power from the tablet to the stylus-- it's a short distance (inches) and the stylus only needs a minute amount of juice.

Second-and-a-half is that the stylus is probably in the nearfield for the tablet, so it wouldn't even radiate so much as reactively couple (think transformer).

Third, Wacom probably isn't powering the stylus at all, just measuring the distortion in some field as the stylus passes through (except they're clicky styluses, aren't they... So there must be some signal traveling back...).

The problem isn't too much different than an RFID tag-- they get powered from the reader and blip back a little bit of data.

In summary: there is no power transmitted by wireless firewire, but it's possible to power a small stylus over a short distance without wires by other means.[/QUOTE]
 
Jobs told us so.....

Steve said this would be a great year for the Mac and it looks like he is going to keep his word.

Also..thanks Macrumors for keeping us up to date
 
rlreif said:
I may be wrong, but it seems that my sonicare toothbrush charges this way. There are no metal contacts on the charger or the brush itself... just smotth plastic on both sides.... dunno...
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Yeah-- reactive coupling (see "second-and-a-half" point). Basically one coil of a transformer is in the base and the second coil is in the toothbrush.

Works fine over short distances-- and makes it easy to waterproof the electronics.
 
I don't think OLED is mature enough for the size of displays Apple would be refreshing for desktops. ...Perhaps for the iPod or some other small device...
 
seems like lately it's feast or famine....

I wonder if these displays will be part of the new imac.
 
pdxdeano said:
Steve said this would be a great year for the Mac and it looks like he is going to keep his word.

Also..thanks Macrumors for keeping us up to date
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here here!

The first part of June and it's already such an exciting time.

I really hope the OLED comes true. Those displays are very cool and are on the cutting edge of technology.
 
Imagine

Can this OLED be used for a next gen ipod where the screen becomes a whole interactive surface? With Apples design and presentation this can become 1 slick looking product to keep Apple way ahead of the competition. Imagine smooth scrolling of images and text that makes up a smart looking gui where text fades in and out in a sleek manner.. okay im getting ahead of myself here. With wifi built in [drools].

(mum bangs on ceiling with broom) "WAKE UP SAM!!! WAKE UP, YOUR VIBERATING THE LIGHT FITTINGS!!!)
 
I love the idea of your ipod having airport built in.. and being able to stream it via airport to airport express

or using your ipod as a remote to scream from your Mac..
 
Macrumors said:
Apple tablet rumors infiltrated the Mac Rumor scene in early 2003 but has since led to no actual product releases.

It's unclear if the recent whispers of hangable displays is related rumor or not.
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hangable display you can write on....who wants to write on a wall? I mean, besides for the bad wordplay....

Don't think these are connected.

Also, due to the sad fact that there isn't realy anywhere radical, esp. radically simpler, that laptop design can go... you don't want your hands where the screen is, or the screen where your hands are...
 
Why not seprate?

Why the screen can't be seperated?

Think of that: it just hung on a lever or something so you can take it off start walking around while the major unit (CPU and stuff) wirelessly sending the data and you going around your house, skecting or anything...

Actually, you can put the mac on the working room while watking your favourite show you have just downloaded on the bedroom....

BTW. It my first post ever! hope to be a switcher soon...
 
I am all for an updated display. I would love a smaller tablet/laptop version being able to write on the screen. At the very least I am all for updated displays. One old 17" had the backlight go out and it just isn't worth replacing when I need a 20 or 23.
 
display info

This is my first post... And I will hopefully be getting my first mac very soon.

Did anyone else notice the current displays are not at the top of the page anymore? Looks Kinda like they might be reorganizing it for several new products... hopefully tomarrow.

VGJ
 
for me this points towards the following

a new G5 iMac, cube shaped, with a remote touch screen, that can be carried around in the house.

that placed at the consumer level and it would cause AAPL to rock to $40 dollars in no time 😀

okay okay okay, let me dream, will you please ??????
 
I really don't think OLED is ready yet for desktop displays as large as those that Apple will (hopefully) announce soon... this being said... Jonathan Ive would feel like a kid in a candy shop if he could design displays around this technology! I can't even begin to imagine how awesome they're gonna be (someday)... 🙂

Where those super-thin, extremely energy-efficient OLED displays make even more sense is obviously in Laptops... Powerbook G5, anyone? (And don't forget to include that rumored carbon enclosure, Jonathan!) Today's laptops will look very clunky in comparison... 😱

For 2004, we will have to settle for 4G iPods with little OLED displays (and WiFi capabilities!), I'm afraid... 😀



P.S. Don't I just love those emoticons... 😉
 
MasonMcD said:
Like the tipster who sort of got the AirPort Express right, I think the "interactive displays" is more like a small remote for AirPort Express to manage your playlists or something.

That's why Joswiak (I think it was him) said *for now* you have to walk to the computer.
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Exactly. A Wi-Fi-enabled remote would be a nice brand extension of the AirPort Express. The differences between a Wi-Fi remote, Wi-Fi iPod and Wi-Fi PDA would be so minute that such a device could be THE next-gen iPod.

The device would be handheld and have a small display, which the iPod already has. The only thing new, really, is Wi-Fi and software. I know that Wi-Fi would make the device larger, but I understand that the new 60-gigger is actually a smaller drive. Makes sense to me.
 
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