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GOOGLE’S ADVANCED-PROJECTS lab, Google X, is busy with a number of different project, but it’s added another one to the list: turning several smaller screens into one giant display.
The facility is developing a display composed of smaller screens that plug together like Lego to create a seamless image, according to the Wall Street Journal.
With these pieces, the screen could be made into different shapes and sizes.
Details about the project, such as the size of these modules or how large a screen could be created using them, is unclear. The research is being led by ex-MIT researcher Mary Lou Jepsen – who was responsible for the One Laptop Per Child project – and has founded three startups around display technology.
One of the challenges the team is trying to sole is making display modules seamless so that people looking at a screen can’t see the borders between the modules.
The project follows the same format as Project Ara, another initiative which will allow users to put together smartphone components like building blocks. Also, at its developer conference last year, it showed off a Chrome experiment called Google Racer, which requires you to lay smartphones and tablets together to create one large track for a game.
Google X is working on a number of other projects such as its self-driving car initiative, a smart contact lens for diabetics, a drone delivery project, a life sciences team collecting data to understand human health and a project that will deliver internet access to remote areas via balloons.
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This was launched at Google I/O 2013.. http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/121059-google-unveils-racer-for-google-chrome-trial-game-that-can-be-played-using-multiple-screens
Why?
I’d guess for games/watching movies on a larger screen with other people who have the phone, what else?
What?
TV?
Design & development – running your dev software, browser, image editing software side-by-side, no need to alt-tab, just move your mouse to work on different software titles (assuming this technology is going to be used in a dev environment).
I’d f*n lover this technology in my office.
Seems like the real innovation needed here is to figure out a useful reason that people would actually be interested in something like this, rather than the way of implementing it. This strikes me as something that someone in Google did, just for the hell of it, which is perfectly find, but for whatever reason it clicked with the press and they decided to run with it.
fine, not find
Don’t worry John Google will create a need for you to have one…
Wobbly
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