There’s a lot of high-tech stuff going on in the recent Avengers movie, but perhaps even more interesting is the glimpse we get inito the future of computing through those user interfaces.

We’ve seen the inside of Iron Man’s helmet before, showing us the heads-up display that Robert Downey Jr. uses to monitor the status of his suit and to target all the bad guys. There’s a lot of information being flashed at him all at once and you almost get the sense that they represent the evolution of the homescreen widget.

You’ll also notice that a lot of the displays are transparent. That’s already happening, to a certain extent, by Samsung and other companies. And again, we get those fancy blinking widgets again. You might also remember the scene where a window can be “swiped” over from one workstation to the next.

There is a lot of detail going on with these user interfaces. You can thank freelance visual artist Jayse Hansen, who was responsible for that work in The Avengers. It does make me wonder if these UIs are closer in scope to the future of Windows, Apple, or something else entirely.

I also wonder if the menu at the shawarma place is going to look like this one day…

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Have you ever wanted to look at the display on your notebook, for example, while still watching the big game on the TV behind it? Normally, your head (or eyes) have to keep bouncing between the two. If you want to keep your head and eyes right where they are, you might want to know about the new Samsung Transparent AMOLED display for TVs and monitors.

There are two reasons why this display is noteworthy. First, it is the world’s first large-screen transparent AMOLED production prototype. Up until now, we’ve only seen this kind of tech on a much smaller scale. Second, the prototype AMOLED is able to provide up to 30% transparency. Samsung says other similar displays has averaged “below 10 percent.”

You probably won’t want to do too much heavy lifting with this screen, since it only does qFHD (960×540), but it’d be great for the NFL Wild Card games this weekend. Keep up with the stats on NFL.com while watching the TV behind your notebook screen. That would be, you know, if this was somewhere beyond prototype status.

In any case, seeing this display in person was quite intriguing. The display itself wasn’t quite as “crisp” and “bright” as you’d get with conventional AMOLED, but the demo box they had set up really helped to show you can see past the display. In this case, they had a fashion show on the screen and a (physical) dressing room in the back. Pretty neat stuff.

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