We all enjoy having a TV in our homes. In fact, most of us can’t live without them. There’s just one problem: when we’re not using our television sets they can be a real eyesore, dominating the view in our living rooms. But that doesn’t have to be the case anymore. Thanks to a newly designed transparent TV that will enable you to see behind it when you’re not using it.
The Verge sums it up best:
“The best TVs provide a picture that’s so good, it’s like looking through a window into another world. But — and stay with me — what if your next TV was like a window into, well, whatever’s behind your TV? That’s what Xiaomi’s new $7,000 transparent OLED TV promises. The Mi TV LUX OLED Transparent Edition is a new product announced as part of Xiaomi’s 10th anniversary celebration that, according to the press images, is all about displaying solitary objects floating in space.
This TV is able to be transparent partly due to the fact that Xiaomi put all of the guts into its circular base instead of behind the display. But the more magical part of how it actually made a see-through OLED screen comes down to utilizing transparent OLED technology (TOLED). As mentioned on the Universal Display Corporation’s site that breaks down all the specs, TOLED screens use transparent components all the way through the stack that makes up the screen, and with no need for backlighting (each diode emits its own light, hence the acronym), images can look like they’re floating. Most other OLED screens use a reflective cathode layer, which prevents you from seeing through it, even if its back was removed.
The result is a 55-inch transparent TV that “looks like a mere glass display” when it’s off. Powered on, it has a 120Hz refresh rate, 1ms response time, 150,000:1 contrast ratio, and it has 93 percent of the DCI-P3 color profile.”
But the best part about this TV is what you can use it for when it’s not a TV.
As Input puts it:
“Xiaomi’s translucent TV could find many applications beyond merely serving as a talking point for the insanely wealthy when they have visitors. It’s perfectly suited to commercial uses, too. We can think of plenty of applications in art galleries, shopping malls, offices, museums, and anywhere else a size-able screen that can pull a vanishing act might be helpful.”
Helpful and aesthetically pleasing.
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