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By Evan Ackerman

This transparent touchscreen at the Intel booth was being used to demonstrate how powerful their new Core i7 processors are. The screen was performing all kinds of fancy interactive visual tricks with a framerate readout in one corner that managed to hit 1500 fps (!) on occasion while never dropping below 400 fps.

The screen itself is nothing more than a capacitive touch panel (single touch, boo) sandwiched between two sheets of glass, which allows it to create a sort of glasses-free 3D effect. At first glance I got all excited thinking that this WAS the entire display, but it’s actually just a screen of sorts with a projector behind it. Oh well.

There’s no way this transparent touchscreen is going into production, which is a shame… It’s gorgeous, and would work brilliantly paired with one of those ultra short throw projectors.

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By Andrew Liszewski

The OLED Association brought some of it’s cooler toys to CES this year, like this proof of concept foldable AMOLED display from Samsung. It’s just a prototype at this time, but it works, and shows just how flexible and durable an AMOLED display can be. There was even a crease in the middle from where the screen had been constantly folded (it can actually close all the way like a book or clamshell PDA) but it didn’t seem to interfere with the display whatsoever.

This transparent AMOLED worked so well that it apparently caused my camera’s autofocus to look right through it. While it wasn’t as transparent as glass when powered off, it did manage to create the ghostly illusion you get when projecting video onto steam or a waterfall, but with the color and crispness of an AMOLED display. Might not be useful for everyone, but I can see every casino in Vegas using something like this.

And I guess I’m not as gung-ho about 3D video displays as everyone else at CES this year, but if you found just the right angle when looking at this glasses-free AMOLED display, the 3D effect was rather impressive.

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While the engineers at Cupertino may or may not be toiling away on a 3D operating system, the gurus at Spatial View definitely are… in a manner of speaking, anyway. The company, which prides itself on making products “for creating 3D effects,” is bringing a new trio to MacWorld 2009. First up is the Wazabee 3DeeShell, which is detailed as “a special protective skin with an integrated removable lens that can display 3D content on the Apple iPhone.” On deck is the 3DeeFlector, an “autostereoscopic overlay for the MacBook Air and other 13.3-inch notebooks,” which supposedly brings eye-popping visuals (and headaches, we’d imagine) to your ultraportable without the need for humiliating glasses. Finally, the Wazabee 19-inch Gaming Display will probably go head-to-head with the IZ3D, though a frighteningly light amount of details are currently available. One’s things for sure out of all this — three-dee is the future, y’all.
Gallery: Wazabee autostereoscopic overlays bring 3D to iPhone, ultraportables
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