Posted on 01/04/2017 4:49:14 PM PST by Hojczyk
LG has unveiled an array of devices to make smart homes even smarter - including a radical ultrathin TV than can be hung on the wall with magnets.
The ultrathin LG Signature OLED W television is just just 2.57mm thin in the 65-inch model, and mounts seamlessly to the wall to create the experience of ‘looking through a window into another world.’
The company is set to market the device, which as yet has no price or release date, as a 'wallpaper' TV.
To avoid cables, it has a single cable that runs to a sound bar, which has all of the normal connectors.
There is built-in Wi-Fi and four HDMI ports, complete with 4K video and HDR tech, and will also be available in a 77-inch version.
The smart TV's operating system is an enhanced version of webOS: webOS 3.5, and the set is also 25 per cent brighter than last year's Signature edition OLED TV.
LG revealed its 2017 Super UDH TV lineup, which uses the firm’s nano cell display technology to generate the most accurate colors, and reduce screen glow.
The uniformly sized one nanometer dots cover the panel, and help to suppress wavelengths of light.
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Never heard of Lustron Homes before but now I want one.
A definite slice of post war Americana.
I wonder if someone will ever start making them again.
Was it the one on Lawndale Drive in Greensboro? Last I heard there was an effort to get it listed on the Historic register.
I went looking for the Lustron Home in Greensboro, there are two, one on Lawndale as I mentioned. Two in Raleigh that are for sale, one endangered. That led me to a site listing all modernist architecture homes for sale in NC and I found this:
http://search.fisherrealtync.com/idx/details/listing/b189/80949/627-Sheepcote-Road-CASHIERS-NC-28717
You spent some time up Cashiers way too, as I recall? Love those grand contemporaries lining the cliffs of Whiteside Cove heading up to Highlands. My favorite was once called Sunledge, may still be, been in it several times, stunning two story wall of glass atop a cliff. A little disorienting, actually, but beautiful. If I ever have a major windfall again, I’d dearly love to have one of those places. There’s one architect in particular that seems to have been responsible for most of them, Jim Fox.
Here’s another, but it’s more of a valley view up Whiteside rather than top down:
http://www.ncliving.com/featured/175-cliffmont/
There’s another Lustron on Dellwood behind the two on Lawndale.
Oops, Fairfield, not Dellwood.
That area’s slowly gentrifying into Irving Park “fringe,” believe it or not. It was pretty much blue collar when I first came to town in the late 80’s.
3.5mm = .138 inches, that’s slightly more than 1/8 of an inch. That is thin!
There is some crazy money along that road. Back in the old days (30+ years ago) I worked for an engineering co. and we did a job about 1/4 way up the road from Cashiers to Highlands. A private residence was built along a steep creek and there was an old 20’ tall concrete dam we were rebuilding about 200’ behind the house. It was a $70,000 job. The owners were fixing it so they could have a water fall and hear the water splashing while they sipped Chardonnay on their back deck.
2.57mm = .102 inches, that’s less than 1/8th of an inch!
I lived on Fairfield back in the early 90’s. Used to walk up to Egberts and eat a hot dog then cross the street and cruise the return bins in the retail section of the the Sears warehouse.
I think that’s the parking lot in front of the Harris Teeter now.
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