Move Over iPad: Board Games To Go Organic.

Posted by Jonathan in GAMING on 01-28-10    1 Comment


The iPad and baseball … oh please that is just old hat. What’s really the cutting edge of displays? Board games! They’re a sport. Not a big sport, but they count. And there’s a way interesting new riff Organic Light Emitting Diode display technology that is, at least in the lab, making neat board games electronic. OLED Display.net is reporting, and many of the edgie tech blogs picked up, a new technology out of Queen’s University in Ontario that renders board games on mobile, changeable OLED displays. So if you are thinking of playing some table top baseball — and not wasting your time on the dumb iPad watching MLB —  these suckers will positively make that game rock. Simply place the paper like displays on any table and they render different images depending on the state of the game. Now on top of the cool factor, the big story here is how fast innovation is coming to next gen displays. If something as simple as a board game can be coolified, just think about what will happen in a stadium, or a sports bar? Probably the bar itself will be a display. Strange days ahead.



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