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A PC display built into each eye.. Sharp does tiniest ever VGA

All this peering at tiny hand-held screens has to be a temporary joke, surely? Sharp seems to be well on the way to getting us down to a full colour display small enough to become invisible to other people.

According to eetimes.com, Sharp has demonstrated a prototype of a 2.6-inch CG silicon panel with VGA (640 by 480) coverage, at 300 pixels per inch resolution.

A picture of this, possibly the smallest VGA display ever, was published by mobile mag.com

This is small enough to be taken out of the hand-held PC or phone, and put into clothing.

We're getting very, very close to the point where a personal, wearable "HUD" or head-up display could be built into the peak of a cap, giving a full-colour PC display shown to (say) a politician reading a speech. The speaker would look through what appear to be ordinary spectacles instead of a conspicuously visible "sincerity board" in front of him.

Using such a display, you'd be able to project a data overlay onto the landscape you were looking at, indicating which shop sold what.

Oh, yes! - I forgot. I want one ...