Display device
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A display device, also known as an information display is a device for visual or tactile presentation of images (including text) acquired, stored, or transmitted in various forms. While most common displays are designed to present information dynamically in a visual medium, tactile displays, usually intended for the blind or visually impaired, use mechanical parts to dynamically update a tactile image (usually of text) so that the image may be felt by the fingers.
Here are the common types of display devices :
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[edit] Analog electronic displays
- CRT display (earlier)
[edit] Digital electronic displays
- Electronic paper
- Nixie tube displays
- VF display
- LED displays (later)
- ELD
- PDP
- LCD (most recent)
- HPA display
- TFT display
- OLED (forthcoming)
- SED (forthcoming)
- Laser TV (forthcoming)
- Carbon nanotubes (experimental)
- Nanocrystal displays (experimental)- Using quantum dots to make vibrant, flexible screens.
[edit] Projectors
[edit] Mechanical types
- Ticker tape (historical)
- Split-flap display (or simply flap display)
- flip-disc display (or flip-dot display)
- Rollsign
[edit] Refreshable Braille display
See also Optacon.
[edit] Idiot lights
The "Check Engine" light on an automobile dashboard is the quintessential idiot light, giving only the information that something is amiss, but not what particular subsystem or component, nor how urgent the problem is. Neither does it give any information about issues that may be still within acceptable limits, but trending towards failure. If the idiot light itself has failed, it will give no indication that it has done so.
[edit] Segment displays
Some displays can show only digits or alphanumeric characters. They are called segment displays, because they are composed of several segments that switch on and off to give appearance of desired glyph. The segments are usually single LEDs or liquid crystals. They are mostly used in digital watches and pocket calculators. There are several types:
- Seven segment display (most common, digits only)
- Fourteen segment display
- Sixteen segment display
[edit] See also
- Large-Screen Television Technology
- computer display
- graphical output device
- television
- Video monitor
- Times Square, where numerous display devices can be seen in use
- Comparison of display technology
[edit] External links
- Society for Information Display - An international professional organization dedicated to the study of display technology
- displayMagazin The online magazine for displays
- The Cutting Edge of Haptics An article in MIT's Technology review about new touch illusion display technology, by Duncan Graham-Rowe.
- The International Society for Haptics
