By looking glass: transparent OLED bed, restaurant, comes on the subway

This is part of the story C.E.S., Where our editors will bring you the latest news and the hottest gadgets of the full virtual CES 2021.

LG Display, manufactured by the company OLED Panels used in TV by LG, Sony, Vizio And others from around the world also demonstrate some of the coolest, most futuristic imaging techniques at CES. He has a private booth where I am first My brain smoked through an 18-inch roll-up OLED In 2016, where I also experienced Crazier 65 inch version Two years later. That’s also where I am Scented OLED flowers And lighter in one OLED-line aircraft berth.

With CES 2021 is going all-virtual I won’t get a chance to enjoy the booth face to face, but the company’s show online showroom is the next best thing. This year its focus is on new transparent OLED screens, which have improved to provide LGD 40% transparency, compared to 10% of the current pay generations. The displays you can see through are not new – LGDA tried them out in commercial applications, and for a while earlier this year. Xiaomi starts selling transparent 55-inch TV in China for 7 7,200. LGD, the world’s only transparent OLED manufacturer, supplies those panels but as always it is not talking about exclusive products for sale with its latest concepts.

The Showline Showroom will feature the following scenarios, each with a 55-inch transparent OLED screen.

• Smart bed: Push the button to display a TV show or other information and a transparent OLED screen rises from the bottom frame of the bed. The screen itself acts as a speaker – a feature found on some current OLED TVs – and LG says the frame and its transparent screen can be moved to other areas of the home.
• Restaurant Partition: Shown as part of the sushi bar, the screen menu between the customer and the chef can display items or video while people are waiting for their food, while still allowing viewers to see the chef at work and maintaining the integrity of the partition.
• Subway Train Window: A window installed in a subway train can simultaneously display route information, weather, news and maps while riders look out of sight.

LGD says the demand for transparent screens in smart homes and buildings as well as driverless cars, aircraft and subways is increasing. “Smart Bed” seems to me the least useful of the three views of the 2021 virtual showroom, but it’s easy to imagine a future where such displays are so cheap and ubiquitous that video or information can appear on any normal transparent surface from Windows . On the glass coffee table for glasses. It’s not as mind-blowing as roll-up TV, but it’s more practical than the argument.

One of the great things about virtual CES is that, for the first time, booths that were private in person can be made more widely available. LG Display says its show online showroom will be open to all general visitors during CES 2021.