#display technology

Google Project Starline Lets You Video Conference With A Photorealistic 3D Person

The future! 🤯

I picked up a desktop particle accelerator. It's huge! 19" screen displayed at up to 1920x1440 pixels if you get the tuning just right. It's bigger than god and twice as heavy. We made some weird stuff in the early 2000's.

There's something indescribable about the glow of an analog phosphor display that is perfect for being some kind of horrible Computer Gremlin that no OLED or LCD can replicate. Plasma comes close but only in spirit. It can remember the scent of the ions and the glow of the phosphors but the miniaturisation process has fragmented its soul.

Ever tried finding a display that isn't just... a rectangle? 📐

Turns out a lot of real-world screens aren't 16:9 at all — think elevator panels, drive-thru menu boards, transit info strips, industrial control panels. These use what's called bar type LCDs (also called stretched or ultra-wide displays), and honestly the manufacturer landscape for these is way smaller and more specialized than standard LCDs.

Spent some time digging into who's actually doing solid customized bar type LCDs for the US market — not just picking sizes off a catalog, but real custom specs (size, touch, brightness, temp rating, the works).

A few nerdy specs worth knowing if you're ever sourcing one:

→ under 1500 nits = basically invisible in direct sunlight → -30°C to +85°C temp range = the difference between "works outdoors" and "dies in winter" → optical bonding done in-house > outsourced (less glare, more durable)