Wearable Instrument Data Displays

by Yme Bosma · March 19, 2004

Instead of, or in addition to, using LCD displays all over the boat to display relatively simple, but important, instrument data, why not use a fiber-optics jacket that is wirelessly connected to the boat network….? And since today is the day of revolutionary technologies, please make sure this jacket is powered by nanobatteries.

“The optical fiber screen displays animated visual information such as texts or pictograms. This new type of display is created by weaving 0.25mm diameter optical fibers. At one end of the optical fibers is a light. The optical fiber screen is a matrix comprising 8×8 pixels, ie, 64 squares measuring 35x35sq.mm, with 12 optical fibers per pixel.”