Found this video on YouTube and thought I would share it with you. It was produced by Swedish screen manufacturer TAT. It shows their vision of how screens may be utilised in the near future. I’m not to sure how accurate they are. The opening screen of a mobile phone that can be stretched to become a tablet looks a little far fetched. There is also a bathroom mirror that acts as a screen allowing browsing in an iPad style. My thought was “That mirror would soon be full of fingermarks”.
However, there is a monitor that is transparent and has a touchscreen that can be operated from either side. I think that this would be great in an office environment, not particularly from a productivity viewpoint but rather from helping to bring people together. It would encourage users not to put their monitor against a wall leading to offices in which everyone is facing each other rather than having their backs to one another.
The video is supposed to be set in 2014 and while technology is moving ever faster I can’t see anything other than the photo sharing style being available in three years time. That last sentence will no doubt come back to haunt me.
Watch the video and let me know what you think…