Google's advanced-projects lab reportedly has a large display screen in the works that will be made up of three smaller screens that fit together like Legos.
The modular pieces will allow the screen to be built in different sizes and shapes while maintaining a seamless picture, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal.
Possibly the most ambitious part of the project is creating display modules that fit together "seamlessly" and make the borders between the smaller screens invisible to view.
"The big challenge is to electronically, and through software, do the stitching between the seams," a source told the Journal.
The project, which comes from a former Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Mary Lou Jepsen, is still in early stages of development and remains a secret even within the company. Details including the size of the screen and how Google intends to use it are unknown.
Jepsen, who leads the display division of Google's advanced projects lab, Google X, is known for co-founding the One Laptop Per Child project. While it ultimately failed, the ambitious One Laptop initiative aimed to bring laptops to tens of millions of poor children worldwide.
The Journal speculated that Gecko Design, one of Google's latest acquisitions, may be assisting with Google X projects. The tech giant's research lab brought on Gecko Design, a mechanical engineering and project design company, in August in an undisclosed deal.
"People come to Gecko because they don't know how to turn ideas into real products, especially when it's something that hasn't been done before. That's what attracted Google X," Jacques Gagné, president of Gecko Design, told the Journal's Digits blog.
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