Electroluminescent Displays on the Space Shuttle

We came across this NASA image from 1985 of a Planar electroluminescent (EL) display on the space shuttle. The display was part of the GRID laptop, one of the first notebooks on the market. The fact that EL displays can handle 100 G's was definitely a plus for this application.

Transparent Multi-touch

This isn't a result of our new transparent EL technology, but it is interesting. Microsoft Research has developed LucidTouch, a concept product with the touch screen on the back of the panel. Read more about the technology at NewScientistTech.

What if your display was also a scanner?

See the coverage on Planar's very own display guru, Adi Abileah. The article reviews Adi's SIGGRAPH presentation on technology that Planar developed for embedding optical scanning capabilities within an AMLCD monitor.