- The innovative LG screen has been designed for automotive use
- The company says that a screen and the buttons can be merged without problems in one
- Technology is just a concept, but we could soon see it in cars
The argument surrounding the physical buttons in modern vehicles continues in rabies, with some vocal sectors (possibly led by journalists) that ask for a reduction in the potentially distracted touch screens and the switches easier to locate when driving.
But LG may have presented an intriguing solution, since it has revealed a stretch automotive screen before the SID exhibition week in California, possibly the ces of the screen world.
The company says that its unique screen, that you see a miraculously curved tactile screen come alive with a physical sphere and buttons, has been designed to convert each inner space into a screen … but one with physical buttons integrated into it.
There is little information on the internal functioning of innovation, but LG states that the screen can expand up to 50% while maintaining a high resolution of 100 ppi (pixels per inch) and complete rgb color, comparable to that of a standard monitor.
In a video demonstration (below), the company shows how a dial leaves the surface of the touch screen when activated, allowing the user to increase or decrease the volume or other configurations with a finger turn.
Similarly, two other buttons rise outside the screen under the main dial, which allows the user to sail more easily for menu screens.
LG points out that a conventional automotive fascia requires a separate automotive screen and physical buttons, while this does not. Although it seems to have ignored the fact that many car manufacturers tend to eliminate physical buttons completely, anyway.
As a result, LG believes that its expandable screen, complete with outstanding touch buttons, offers the best of both worlds that is “easy to operate even while driving.”
Together with the elastic exhibition, the South Korea’s technological giant is also showing the largest 57 -inch automotive screen in the world of 57 inches, as well as a 18 -inch sliding OLED screen that can be wrapped and hidden in the internal owner of a vehicle.
ANALYSIS: A touch too much
While LG visualization technology is very impressive, it resembles something that prohibits directly from an alien plane, does not really solve the driver’s distraction problem when it is behind the steering wheel.
The beauty of the physical buttons is that they are still static, easy to locate and the type of things that drivers can operate only with muscle memory, denying the need to take the eyes from the road.
The demonstration of LG reveals that the unit should be used several times before the physical buttons appear, often through very small and possibly quite complicated parts of the screen.
It is almost like a futuristic IDRive BMW system, but with additional steps necessary to reveal the dials and physical buttons that made the German brand system so easy to use … although the new version has sent the buttons controversial.
While a stretch screen may not be the best solution for drivers, it could be an ultra luxurious system for those who travel in the rear, which allows designers for the freedom to maintain the spaces that are seen clean and minimal, while offering a little drama when the occupants decide that they want to enjoy a netflix on the wave of 18 -inch teringos wave that is hidden on the roof.
