Xiaomi turns 10 and celebrates by sitting down to relax in front of its new transparent television
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/08/12/xiaomi_transparent_television/
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The 55-inch Mi TV LUX offers a substantial cylindrical base, a metal bezel and - at a glance - not much else. Xiaomi has offered some verbiage about the tellie making images appear to float in a virtual space, but we’ll spare you the quotes on this occasion.
Transparent OLEDs have been offered as a digital signage option for a few years now and your humble hack has beheld them frozen into fridge. Xiaomi reckons it has become the first company to turn them into televisions and crank them out in the kind of quantities demanded by consumers. Although just how many people can afford the RMB 49,999 (US$7,200) the device will cost remains to be seen, especially as it will only be sold in China.
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The The Mi TV LUX Transparent TV
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The tellie was launched at a 10th-birthday bash for the company at which founder and CEO Lei Jun delivered a mostly sugar-coated [2]history of the company that did at least recall early hiring difficulties and the company’s flop when first entering India in 2015.
Xiaomi is now the dominant smartphone vendor on the sub-continent and the birthday bash included the launch of two new devices that should do well there. The Mi 10 Ultra packs a 120x zoom camera and 120w wired charging said to fill the 3500Mah battery in 23 minutes. The phone is sold for around $760 in China and offers a transparent model that lets users peer through the screen to see its innards.
The $290 X30 is a 5G affair that boasts a 64MP main camera and a 20MP pop-up selfie shooter. Both phones feature a 6.67″ OLED display. There's no word on when either will make it beyond the Middle Kingdom. ®
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[1] https://regmedia.co.uk/2020/08/12/pr_supplied_xiaomi_mi_lux_transparent_tv.jpg
[2] https://blog.mi.com/en/2020/08/11/from-10-to-infinity/
[3] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Frying tonite
> 120w wired charging said to fill the 3500Mah battery in 23 minutes
120 Watts for 23 minutes sounds like a hell of a lot of power to fill a piddling little 3.7V 3.5Ah battery.
The energy from the charger comes to 2760 Watt*minutes, while the capacity of the battery is 3.7 * 3.5 * 60 = 770 Watt*minutes. Does the other 2000 just cook the battery?
Re: Frying tonite
I dunno, do considerations of efficiency change the sums at all? Is 120W the max the charger will draw from the socket but not what it supplies to the phone?
Re: Frying tonite
Something has to get hot!
Perhaps it's the cable ..>
Re: Frying tonite
I am going to guess it is capable only of 120W charging when the battery is basically empty.
The actual spec says 41% charged in 5 minutes, laws of physics will interfere and I imagine it just gets scaled down and throttled very quickly, probably with added thermal monitoring.
Curiously, it claims this is a new kind of "graphene" based Li-Ion battery..?
Re: Frying tonite
Search for 'graphene anodes' and you'll find a lot of articles and papers. You'll have to dig more deeply than I have to find out how close to production they might be.
Re: Frying tonite
No charging for conventional batteries is linear.
Transparent phone, please?
With the battery and heavier electronics at the bottom so it's more comfortable to hold in one hand.
Re: Transparent phone, please?
We're forever seeing see-thru phones in sci-fi, films like Looper, TV like the Expanse. I never saw the point. And back in our reality, there were some see thru dumbphones on the market a few years back, with boring old monochrome see-thru LCD panels.
Sci Fi Side note: the origami folding tablet things from Westworld appear to be useful.
Re: Transparent phone, please?
When did making sense ever stop technological "progress"? ;)
Transparent TV
Transparent TV?
No thank you.
Re: Transparent TV
I'm wondering how it creates black pixels and handles high contrast scenes. Perhaps there's an LCD layer that kicks in to block light from behind the screen. But absence of emitted light from a pixel isn't quite the same as a true black pixel.
Re: Transparent TV
Wondering what it looks like when viewed from behind.
Also if it would effectively project a blurred mirror image of the picture on the back wall.
Or is it like a rainbow, only visible from one side?
Samsung demoed this a while back
And the demo included making use of the transparency for effects including playing games with people on different sides of the TV. IIRC, which I probably don't. Otherwise informational displays, window display, etc.
I'll wait for the first YouTube videos of this TV being used to confuse a cat.
https://youtu.be/1tsIxNci_dE