Monday, February 11, 2002
Notebook-Quality Display in the Palm of Your Hand
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "NEWS" @ 05:03 PM
http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=mvis&script=410&layout=-6&item_id=257226
Microvision is company that has been working for several years on getting visions in your head, literally. The basic premise is they beam an image into your eye which thinks it is looking at a 17" monitor, that is transparent. They already have some very cool things for medical and military applications allowing the user to look at full screen video/text/images at the same time looking through the image at whatever you are working on, be it a heart or some terrorist. :-) But they are relativly low tech compared to what they are currently working on.
Here's a quote from their press released entitled: "Microvision Demonstrates Prototype Display Aimed At 3G Wireless, Consumer Electronics Markets; Notebook-Quality Display in the Palm of Your Hand"
"In its drive to commercialize a miniature display that can meet the demanding mix of high performance and low cost, Microvision, Inc. (Nasdaq:MVIS) today announced it has demonstrated a fully-functional miniature display that uses just three light emitting diodes (LEDs) coupled with a vibrating mirror on a tiny micromechanical chip. "As the user holds a cell-phone-like device near one eye, the tiny display scans a single beam of multi-colored light through a small lens to project a full-color video image of the apparent size and resolution of a notebook or laptop display screen onto the eye. This prototype display represents a major milestone for the company, which believes its unique display can add functionality to such emerging consumer products as handheld wireless devices to gaming systems, portable DVD players and digital cameras. "
The key to this is the blue LED. Red, yellow and even green LED's have been around for several years that were powerful enough for this type of application, but blue hasn't until recently, perhaps the past 12 months, at least at the power and price you can get them now. The blue LED is also what is going to allow the elusive blue laser everyone has been hearing for decades to finally come to consumer products over the next 12 months at reasonable prices. And as you know, it takes Red, Green and Blue to give you a full color display. I don't think any of us have a clue as to what visual display's we'll be seeing in the future. I know I won't miss my dusty old iPAQ display. ;-)
Microvision is company that has been working for several years on getting visions in your head, literally. The basic premise is they beam an image into your eye which thinks it is looking at a 17" monitor, that is transparent. They already have some very cool things for medical and military applications allowing the user to look at full screen video/text/images at the same time looking through the image at whatever you are working on, be it a heart or some terrorist. :-) But they are relativly low tech compared to what they are currently working on.
Here's a quote from their press released entitled: "Microvision Demonstrates Prototype Display Aimed At 3G Wireless, Consumer Electronics Markets; Notebook-Quality Display in the Palm of Your Hand"
"In its drive to commercialize a miniature display that can meet the demanding mix of high performance and low cost, Microvision, Inc. (Nasdaq:MVIS) today announced it has demonstrated a fully-functional miniature display that uses just three light emitting diodes (LEDs) coupled with a vibrating mirror on a tiny micromechanical chip. "As the user holds a cell-phone-like device near one eye, the tiny display scans a single beam of multi-colored light through a small lens to project a full-color video image of the apparent size and resolution of a notebook or laptop display screen onto the eye. This prototype display represents a major milestone for the company, which believes its unique display can add functionality to such emerging consumer products as handheld wireless devices to gaming systems, portable DVD players and digital cameras. "
The key to this is the blue LED. Red, yellow and even green LED's have been around for several years that were powerful enough for this type of application, but blue hasn't until recently, perhaps the past 12 months, at least at the power and price you can get them now. The blue LED is also what is going to allow the elusive blue laser everyone has been hearing for decades to finally come to consumer products over the next 12 months at reasonable prices. And as you know, it takes Red, Green and Blue to give you a full color display. I don't think any of us have a clue as to what visual display's we'll be seeing in the future. I know I won't miss my dusty old iPAQ display. ;-)
