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Samsung shows off a passport prototype with a flexible OLED screen
I'm not quite sure what the benefit of this is, but the government sure is interested in making passports fancy and electronic. Samsung is now showing off this prototype ID card with a built-in flexible OLED display.
The display is 2 inches and 240x320, showing a rotating head in 260k colors with a 10,000:1 contrast ratio. I, for one, don't want to have to deal with ensuring that my passport is fully charged before going to the airport, but that's just me.
By itisspencer at 12:19 PM ON 06/19/09
LeeLoo Dallas "Multi-pass"
By RG at 12:39 PM ON 06/19/09
Whom ever wrote this article is really dumb.
You don't need to charge it, it receives it's power from the RFID transmitter, if you didn't notice, the closer it got to the RFID transmitter the britter the image got, because more power was made available to the display.
By SchizoDuckie at 1:19 PM ON 06/19/09
I'm with RG.
And the benefit is clear isn't it? Forge thát!
By muss34 at 2:09 PM ON 06/19/09
Now that is just paint SCIFI ......!!!!
By muss34 at 2:14 PM ON 06/19/09
Now that is plain SCIFI.............!!!!!!!!!
By Lucky13 at 2:33 PM ON 06/19/09
"I, for one, don't want to have to deal with ensuring that my passport is fully charged before going to the airport, but that's just me."
WHOA!! did you even watch the video before you posted and wrote the article. it tells you in BIG LETTERS that its powered by RF. You dont need to charge it.
i think im gonna apply for a job with dvice, maybe i'll bring the stanard up.
By r4nd0mn4me at 11:02 AM ON 06/20/09
Now that I would have in my ID card! I could see this be big sellers if they had a user programmable battery powered one for pictures of your family.
Epic win for Samsung but epic fail for NS for not bothering to watch the vid before posting...maybe I should apply to work for NS as well...:P
By IsoTek at 4:48 PM ON 06/24/09
@RG...Um, it's "brighter" brainiac.
The benefit of this, besides being cooler than a static picture is that the picture can show multiple profiles of an individual thus cementing ones photo image into someones memory better, plus other info could be displayed in the window if desired. Lastly these devices will be nigh impossible to forge thus making the ID impossilbe to replicate by neer do wells seeking to create fraudluent credentials.
By Bodak at 10:29 AM ON 07/17/09
HA! "Multipass"!
That's awesome!
I think the technology is awesome... too bad once the government gets a hold of it, they'll figure out a way to make it inefficient and costly.
Disney annual passes should use this...
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