 So we're here at the SID display weekend. Who are you? I'm very active in the displays industry. I've been from the almost very beginning, past president. Very functionally engineering, 40 patents, formed a couple of companies. My last company was TANIS Electron Displays 8 for resizing liquor crystal displays. I literally cut a display and resealed it and it preserved all of its original functions. I first did that in 1999 and have over 40 patents now. I stand right over here. So you say you can take an LCD display and resize it? Yes, I can. No one thought it could be done. So how does that work? Is it just a bunch of liquid? The liquid is so thin that it doesn't move. So it's 5 microns thick and when you cut it, it just stays there. It doesn't care where it is, right? It does care. It stays right where it is and all of the functionality is preserved. But an LCD has so many layers, right? It does. And some of the layers you can't resize or you can resize all of them? No, the LCD material is a sandwich in all the circuitry between two pieces of glass. So you cut both pieces of glass, break it, reseal it by a technique that you press, put it on the sealant and then release. And used in avionics and so it's been used now for 18 years. And avionics was the first use and now there's a bigger use for custom sizes for signage as well as avionics. So why is it a bigger deal than avionics? Well, it fits a unique point. The manufacturers of liquid crystal displays have multi-million dollar factories and they have to make displays by the 150,000 a month as an order. And my customers only wanted 10 or 20. So resizing an existing high performance display was a real solution. High performance display? All of them. The liquid crystal now today has to be considered the highest function display in terms of resolution and performance in life. A very, very functional kind of way to present an image. But when you resize an LCD you lose resolution? No. Indirectly you lose the number of lines but you don't change any of the original parameters. So after resizing it the display is smaller, there's fewer pixels but the performance is the same as the original warranty performance. And so how about all these other inventions you've had, you've done? What kind of things have you worked on? Other things include matrix addressing of a display. I have a very early patent on how to matrix address a display called the one-third select. I taught classes for 20 years at UCLA, extension on displays. I started in 1980. So I've been fundamentally very active in the industry for all my life. So how do you take an idea or an invention and make it into mass production? What's the challenge? What's the adventure of this industry? Well it depends. In the case of liquid crystal resizing the volume was always low. So it was kind of a handheld process. It didn't justify, the volume was so low it didn't justify automated machinery. But it had the flexibility of doing one size one day and another size the next day. So now they're ending up being used in buses and train stations where special sizes are needed for over doors and in unique places where a normal standard size will fit. And there's also going to be a booth here, a pixie scientific booth, right? So what is a pixie scientific? I sold the company two years ago to Dick McCartney and he moved it to Scots Valley and changed the name to Pixie Scientific and is doing very well resizing. Custom size liquid crystal displays are very unique but highly sought after capability in making custom sizes. Any size people want, any shape or not? Shape had to be, you could not do a negative cut so to speak. It had to be round or rectangular or octagonal. You could cut corners off but you couldn't make wedges. You couldn't go inside. Because one of the layers of the LCD needs to address every corner of the display? You had to save two sides where the X and Y addressing electronics are mounted. You could cut away those two sides and cut off the corner. Are there many great friends around here at the SID conference? Are there many interesting things happening in the display world, right? Oh yes. So the new big venture is in OLEDs. So the OLED display has higher performance than the famous liquid crystal but it costs more money and has a shorter life. So the higher performance costs more money, shorter life versus the liquid crystal which has been a fundamental breakthrough going back to 1980. And it has changed the face of the earth and electronic displays. The liquid crystals have replaced a 100 year old cathode ray tube and are now used in all kinds of portable devices. But the OLED, which is more complicated but higher performing, lighting-mitting technology, is used in unique things like cell phones for virtual reality displays and higher resolution, wider color gamut applications. Do you have an OLED TV? I have a liquid crystal television and I probably wouldn't buy an OLED even though it's a better performer, it's more money and a shorter life. So the economics of that maybe are said that the liquid crystal still wins. It would be interesting to see what happens in the coming year, right? Maybe the OLED TVs are going to go down in price, hopefully. Yes, it really is going to be interesting. The Chinese are going into OLEDs in a big way and they may bring down the manufacturing cost and change planet Earth in terms of the fundamental display. Because right now most of them are coming from LG only, right? LCD is the leading technology. But OLEDs are the technology that still has this promise of a little better performance but a higher price, so you take your choice right now.