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"Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful."
- Philip K. Dick
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| Transparent Flat Panel Display | ||
| A fifty-inch flat panel display that is (or can be) transparent. |
Tell me about that amazing former age of the world when people lived in buildings pushed up out of the ground, rather than in proper underground cities!
 (Flat Panel display from Things To Come [Movie])
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| Technovelgy from The Shape of Things To Come,
by H.G. Wells. Published by Alexander Korda Productions in 1936 Additional resources -
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As shown in this picture, the screen is obviously transparent.
(Flat panel clearly transparent)
The little girl remarks "They keep on inventing new things, don't they? And making life lovelier and lovelier!"
These displays were also available in a small, desktop size.
(Smaller desktop flat panel display)
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Transparent Flat Panel Display-related
news articles:
- Transparent TV From Active Inc (And H.G. Wells)
- Samsung Transparent OLED Display And H.G. Wells
- Transparent OLED Display Gets Bigger
- Samsung Transparent OLED Laptop
- Samsung 19 Inch Transparent AMOLED Display
- Samsung Transparent Smart Window
- Transparent Smartphone Prototype From Polytron
- Samsung's Transparent Display Finally As Big As HG Wells'
- Transparent OLED TV By Panasonic
- Mi TV LUX Transparent Edition OLED TV
- Samsung Gets Transparent Smartphone Patent
- Transparent MicroLED Screen From Samsung
| Transparent MicroLED Screen From Samsung |
| Augmented Reality Book Covers Reveal The Inner Book |
| TCL CSOT 17-Inch Printed OLED Scrolling Display |
| Looking Glass Display Good Enough For Science Fiction, Fantasy |
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'And he had been sent with troops, supplies and bombs to command Russia's most trusted post, the Moonbase.'
'What is your population', I asked. 'About eighty millions.'
'THE autobus turned silently down the wide street of Hydropole. Robot-guided, insulated from noise and cold...'
'The car had no steering wheel, and no one drove!'
Now that's power walking that Hugo Gernsback would have approved.
'It was disturbing to think of the Flatline as a construct...'
'...he rewired the delivery robot so that it would serve him midnight snacks.'
'On went the electric-yacht faster and still faster.'
'...the huge vessel had spun, with a sickening lurch, through a complete half-circle, the instant the power was reversed.'
'...he realized that it was not quite a clear lens. Speckles of colored brightness swirled and gathered in it.'
