Smartphone screens invented in 1880?

Sorry for the catchy title, but no, modern screens weren't invented in the late 19th century. However, smartphone maker Nothing recently made an interesting analogy between the technology used today to display images and pointillism. Nothing is high art££££ A painting technique that uses small, juxtaposed areas of color rather than mixtures of colored pastes, pointillism was popularized in the 1880s by French painter Georges-Pierre Seurat and his painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. The work is also used by Nothing's video to illustrate the link between this pictorial technique and the association of red, green, and blue pixels, which gives the brain the illusion that new colors are being created on the screen.

Hello, the fall… of the back££££ “So, the next time you look at your smartphone,” the video concludes, “remember that it took centuries of innovation, breakthroughs in science and art, and countless generations of brilliant and determined minds… all of which led to the device you now hold in your hands… and you’re using it to watch porn.” Holy Nothing.