<p><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 15px; "><a href="/images/old/6a00e5537d96628833012877955c5a970c-800wi.jpg" rel="lightbox" style="display: inline;"><img alt="The COOL Transparent Laptop" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e5537d96628833012877955c5a970c " src="/images/old/6a00e5537d96628833012877955c5a970c-500wi.jpg" style="width: 480px; " /></a> <br /></span><span style="font-size: 12px; ">Are you into betting? Like&#0160;</span></span></span></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; ">online sports betting</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; ">? I can bet you money that you will be taken by
surprise that they have actually built a laptop which is totally transparent. </span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; ">A transparent laptop? Not just the
keyboard area, but a transparent laptop screen? I kid you not; Samsung has come
out with a laptop screen that is totally transparent. It’s so cool, it’s
unbelievable. It has an OLED screen, a technology with which Samsung has been
experimenting with for many years.</span></span></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "></span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; "><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><a name="0.2_graphic02"></a></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><img alt="The COOL Transparent Laptop" height="1" src="file://localhost/Users/kenstruztd/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip1/01/clip_image001.png" v:shapes="_x0000_i1025" width="1" />OLED is a very expensive technology at
present, but it offers a number of advantages over the common LCD screens. It
has a flexible substrate, which makes it potentially usable as displays on
clothing, or as roll up displays. It consumes less power compared to LCDs, and
it has certain properties that produce a better viewing experience.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; ">This Samsung laptop is not really hundred
percent transparent; but it is twice as transparent as the industry average for
transparent displays, and is also about the largest transparent display slated
to be in the market in the near future. It is translucent, and looks a little
like those photochromatic lenses that turn dark in sunlight. This screen has a
very similar look, and the bright icons on the display, against the backdrop of
that semi-transparent, dark OLED screen, looks really great. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 15px; "><a href="/images/old/6a00e5537d96628833012877955dc4970c-800wi.jpg" rel="lightbox" style="float: left; "><img alt="The COOL Transparent Laptop" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e5537d96628833012877955dc4970c selected " src="/images/old/6a00e5537d96628833012877955dc4970c-500wi.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; width: 260px; " title="Sonyericsson-xperia-pureness-2" /></a> <br /></span>Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA Pureness now looks
lifeless in comparison to this gizmo. XPERIA only sports a small 1.8-inch
transparent screen, and this laptop has a regular 14’’ display. This still
unnamed beauty is going to hit the US markets later this year, at a price
target of $332. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; ">Samsung has been experimenting with OLED
technology for a few years. Its Korean lab has been abuzz with excitement about
OLEDs ever since it brought out the 21 inch OLED TV in January 2005, touted as
the largest OLED display at that time. OLEDs have comparatively higher
resolution than other displays, and their response time is significantly
better; about a tenth or more of the best LCDs. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; ">Three years later, in January 2008,
Samsung came out with an ultra thin 31 inch OLED TV, again the world’s largest
OLED screen. Since then, it has been bringing out larger and larger OLED
displays and the largest so far stands at a cool 40 inches.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; ">Samsung has also come out with an OLED
screen that is thinner than paper, and “bendable.” This screen has extreme
color resolution capabilities, and its flappable nature makes it potentially
usable in a large number of situations. It can be used as a slide in screen in
cars, for example, for a better rear view when backing up. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; ">There is some doubt about transparent
laptop screens and their usefulness. A laptop is, after all, a very private
technology, and to make it transparent will be a distraction, to say the least.
What is onscreen will get superimposed on that is behind the screen, and it will
probably be harder to focus on the display itself.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; ">While that may be true, geekdom is totally
interested in this cool gadget, and can’t wait to show it off to girlfriends
once they get their hands on it after shelling out three hundred odd bucks.</span></span></p>

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