Backseat TVs That Roll Up Into the Roof of a Car Are My Childhood Dream Come True

CES is a mixed dish of engineering you ’ll actually be able to buy in the coming yr , and technologies you credibly wo n’t see realize for another decade . LG ’s display division really care tolet its imagination run wildat the show , and this year it ’s produce acar of the futurethat leverage the flexibleness of OLED presentation to turn the backseat into a home theater away from home .

There are quite a few company exhibiting at CES that seem especially delirious for a future where autonomous car are the average , and a vehicle ’s passengers can instead focus on other distraction . arrange boob tube in cars is far from a newfangled idea — when I was a kid our family van had a buirdly mordant and white set with a flyspeck screen get on to a swivel on the roof — but today it ’s mostly confine to compact LCD screens in the dashboard , or get on to the back of seats .

Last year , at CES 2022,BMW debuted a concept vehiclewith a feature squall theTheater Screen : a 31 - in , ultra - broad , 8 K display that backseat passengers could use to watch two unlike movies side - by - side . The downside to the idea was that passengers do n’t always want a CRT screen that size of it blocking their view , and the Theater Screen would riffle up and out of the way into the BMW ’s cushioned headliner , at the price of headway in the vehicle .

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At CES 2023 , LG Display is proposing a good idea that seems like one of my childhood dream come true . The company has taken the same whippy organic light-emitting diode engineering plant in its$87,000 retractable TVs , flipped it upside - down , and stuck it to the ceiling of a motorcar .

Its footmark when retracted and roll up is much smaller than what ’s needed for a rigid LCD screen that riffle out of the way , while still facilitating a generous 18 - column inch figure of speech that can be used for ascertain motion-picture show , television , or even video calls . It ’s akin to those retractable sun shades you may suction cup to a vehicle ’s window , but with the potential to make a two - hr drive feel like it ’s flown by in seconds .

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