Well this is fantastic news for anyone who's ever wanted a device with a high-res display, but can't afford
fancy hardware like the iPhone or iPad. Floraine Berthouzoz and Raanan Fattal, a couple of graphics
researchers, have found a way to make crappy low-res displays show high-res imagery.
And the secret is to simply just vibrate them.
Ok, so there's a lot more to it than that, but the clever discovery basically takes advantage of the way our
eyes will blend multiple moving images together. To display a high-res image on a screen with significantly
less resolution, the image is first broken down into several smaller images matching the display's native res.
These images are then flashed in quick succession while the screen is rapidly, but subtlety, vibrated.
Not enough vibration that the viewer gets dizzy, but enough motion so that the multiple images are never
displayed in exactly the same position.