It's worth noting that many OLED displays used in smartphones don't have square pixels but are actually made up of a "pentile subpixel matrix" (do an image search for those keywords to see what I mean). That said those non-square red/green/blue subpixels are fixed and Russel Kirsch suggestion seems to be to somehow display differently shaped pixels arbitrarily. I'm not sure the kind of display technology he thinks could achieve that. Maybe E-Ink displays used in eBook readers like Amazon Kindle might be able to achieve this when the magnetic field is applied in a certain way? I'm not sure. Also I came across this quote from his son:
> Walden Kirsch said he regrets his father was unable to appreciate how prevalent that technology has become.
For somebody who had Alzheimer’s disease, he seems very lucid in that 2011 video. The world hasn't changed that much in the last 9 years so I think it's pretty clear that he understood the impact his work had on the world.
It's worth noting that many OLED displays used in smartphones don't have square pixels but are actually made up of a "pentile subpixel matrix" (do an image search for those keywords to see what I mean). That said those non-square red/green/blue subpixels are fixed and Russel Kirsch suggestion seems to be to somehow display differently shaped pixels arbitrarily. I'm not sure the kind of display technology he thinks could achieve that. Maybe E-Ink displays used in eBook readers like Amazon Kindle might be able to achieve this when the magnetic field is applied in a certain way? I'm not sure. Also I came across this quote from his son:
> Walden Kirsch said he regrets his father was unable to appreciate how prevalent that technology has become.
For somebody who had Alzheimer’s disease, he seems very lucid in that 2011 video. The world hasn't changed that much in the last 9 years so I think it's pretty clear that he understood the impact his work had on the world.