HP claims display tech will have biggest impact in next decade

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The most game changing developments in IT over the next 10 years will be within the display market.

So claims Martin Sadler, the director of the systems security lab at HP's labs in Bristol.

At a meeting today at the labs he told IT PRO that the screens we have today, which are inflexible and constrictive, will become much easier to project onto more flexible surfaces.

“The biggest transformation we will see in the next 10 years is in displays,” said Sadler.

“We will move to plastic display tech almost certainly [and] we are going to paper our walls with it. You will be able too put this on every surface in your home.”

He also explained that these displays will be much better for power management as they will only need power to refresh what is on the displays rather than run them alone.

“This will change battery power to weeks rather than days or hours,” he said.

Although Sadler's focus was on displays, he was clearly keen to make the point that HP is working hard to innovate.

“Innovation isn't going to stop anytime soon, it's not like technology has been done and now it's all about driving costs down," he concluded. "We are going to see wave after wave after wave and the roadmap of the future shows that processing will speed up by 20,000 times in the next 20 years.”

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