Display Technology — Posts
16 posts on "Display Technology" by Shlomo Strauss — bilingual writing on technology, science, and business.
- Corning's evolution from Edison's lightbulb to AI optical fibers — Corning has sustained 175 years of relevance by adapting its glass technology for everything from Edison's lightbulbs to modern AI data centers.
- How NASA's 1989 VIEW Project Laid the Foundation for Modern VR — Although NASA's 1989 VIEW project failed its space goals, its optical and tracking innovations laid the groundwork for Nintendo, Oculus, and modern VR.
- Why Nvidia skipped new GPU launches and what DLSS 4.5 signals instead — VRAM shortages driven by AI server demand blocked new GPU launches, so Nvidia responded with a Transformer-based DLSS 4.5 upgrade that generates graphics…
- The technology powering the Sphere's massive LED exterior — A look at how 1,500 Nvidia A6000 GPUs, 1.2 million LED tiles, and custom sync software bring the Sphere's exterior screen to life.
- Google's patent puts 3D face recognition directly under the display — A newly filed Google patent describes an under-display 3D face recognition system that could rival Apple's Face ID while eliminating the need for a notch…
- The 1958 physics experiment that launched a $220 billion industry — A 1958 analog tennis game built on a repurposed oscilloscope is recognized as the first real-time video game, and the unlikely ancestor of today's gaming,
- Active optical HDMI cables: when the premium price makes sense — Unlike standard copper HDMI cables, active optical variants convert signals to light internally, solving interference and distance problems in demanding…
- BOE makes screens for Apple and the world — and almost no one knows — A look at BOE, the Chinese display giant behind TV panels, smartphone screens, and a new folding dashboard prototype — operating largely out of the…
- Jensen Huang sees billions of robots filling the labor gap within 20 — In a Bloomberg interview, Nvidia's CEO outlined a future shaped by robot labor, physics-based AI training environments, and fully AI-managed data centers.
- What a video player looked like in 1930 — Decades before digital pixels, early video devices already relied on the same core principle: cycling still images fast enough to fool the human eye into…
- Why skipping in a video is never instant: the role of key frames — Video compression stores only the differences between frames, so seeking relies on periodically saved full images called key frames — which is why…
- Why two 14-inch screens are not always equal in size — Aspect ratio determines actual screen area — a 14-inch display at 4:3 offers roughly 12.6% more workspace than a 16:9 screen of the same diagonal size.
- ThinkPad sub-series explained: how to tell T, X, P and E apart — A practical breakdown of Lenovo's ThinkPad sub-series — T, X, P, L, E and Yoga — so you know exactly what you're paying for before you buy.
- Why Apple stacked two OLED panels in the new iPad — Apple's Tandem OLED bonds two panels together to reach 1,000 nits full-screen brightness, three to five times that of a typical computer display.
- Apple's new iPad Pro is impressive — and almost nobody needs to — Five takeaways from Apple's iPad event: why a product that's too good becomes a business problem, what the new OLED display actually delivers, and where…
- LCD vs OLED: how your screen actually works — A concise breakdown of how LCD and OLED screens work, and why the difference matters the next time you buy a device.