Researchers Discover the Future of Digital Displays

Imagine an ultra high-resolution display built directly into your contact lenses! That's exactly what researchers have imagined, and potentially created, by adapting a material currently used to store data on DVDs. The technology relies on phase-change materials that switch colors when their temperature changes. The discovery could lead to thinner, lighter, higher resolution displays and lower power consumption than today's technologies provide. By mounting the material on flexible or transparent surfaces, developers could create UHDs on contact lenses, car windshields, and virtually any flexible transparent surface imaginable.

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