Trend of transparent Displays

• in general: cool design but useless in phones or tablets (reason: backgrounds bleeds through)
• transparent displays will be more useful in windows or integrated into eyewear

Features of Transparent Displays in Design Studies

Fujitsu Brick Smartphone

• toggling between transparent and non-transparent modes (e.g. to show text of a book and then translation)
• use as magnifying lens, for video and photo capture

Transparent Dual Display

• to enlarge one screen by another (one works as "mother", one as lens)

Lucent Transparent Phone

• integrates nice (but useless) animation into the background/real world

Transparent Phone based on AMOLED

• phone get more transparent when it runs out of battery

Eye Concept Phone

• for augmented reality (e.g. navigation, human recognition, sight seeing)