Many people know the concept of 'LCD screens' as a high quality television. In this article we will not only bring you the highest level TV screens but we will take you back in time to those products that were in homes long before the invention of advanced televisions, laptops and advanced screens. Those years when the LCD also served us in digital wristwatches, Game Boy games, pocket dictionaries, calculators and more
Many people know the concept of 'LCD screens' as a high quality television. In this article we will not only bring you the highest level TV screens but we will take you back in time to those products that were in homes long before the invention of advanced televisions, laptops and advanced screens. Those years when the LCD also served us in digital wristwatches, Game Boy games, pocket dictionaries, calculators and more.
History begins here
It all started with the development of literature in a monochromatic display. A development in which digital wristwatches were mainly used as well as pocket calculators that most of us know from school days and which we used many times also for the purpose of calculations at the workplace and various calculations related to household accounts. In this technological method, the light passed through certain crystals and depending on the voltage applied to the crystal, it changed the plane of polarization. This technology method was invented by the Japanese company known to most of us, Sharp, which still holds the patent. This company introduced already in 1973 Digital watch and the first calculator with the LCD screen.
What is an LCD?
Most people do not know that the term LCD does not come to describe a flat screen TV, but rather it is the acronym (in the English language) for 'liquid crystal display'. Here the reference is to a special technology that has developed over the years, a technology whose main purpose is the use of several segments to build thin displays, where each segment along the way represents a different series of graphic information units (pixels that are expressed in different colors). Until the stage of this invention, people had to deal with large and thick screens, such as for example the old television receivers that can often be seen in movies, in antique shops and sometimes even with older family members. The main advantages of the LCD are reflected in the low weight of the screens, the thin thickness, the width of the screen and the ease of installation of these screens. As of 2015, most screens are LCD screens (mainly the ones we use at home), if we are referring to televisions and computer monitors.
The LCD products of the past
Many people remember or have heard of the portable game console called 'GAME BOY' produced by another well-known Japanese company, the 'Nintendo' company. This game was commercially successful in a big way and was known as one of the best-known and best-selling games in the world of all time (more than two hundred million Game Boy devices have been sold to date). This game began its journey in April of 1989 and its screen was of the LCD type in the colors of black and green. The game was reflective and the first game he remembered was 'Tetris'. In 1996, the Nintendo company had already introduced the Nintendo pocket device whose LCD screen displayed colors of black and white. In 1998, Nintendo introduced a screen with more color options.
In conclusion, LCD has a glorious history that starts with pocket calculators, digital wristwatches and game consoles and every year companies that use this technique manage to surprise us with more and more innovations.
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