Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs)— high-quality, energy-efficient displays — are already used in some flat screen TVs. But they’re about to become common in everything from electronic paper to adaptive clothing thanks to researchers at the VTT Technical Centre in Finland.
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22 Responses
12.10.2008
I’d make one of those "I’m With Stupid" t-shirts with those with the arrow glowing.
12.10.2008
Is the arrow pointing up?
12.10.2008
I’d buy it for sure!
12.10.2008
This must suck if you’re someone who dropped $1600+ on an Optimus Maximus keyboard en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keybo …
12.10.2008
why? the optimus uses oleds on its keys.they are also very common on phones and mp3 players, anything that uses a small low powered screen, it just hasnt been cost effective to make large ones yet.
12.10.2008
Cost-Effective would mean they’re cheaper to make… at all sizes, unless I’m mistaken. Which would drive the price of a device like the Optimus Maximus down.
12.10.2008
at the size of the optimus screens they would be fairly cheap, the problem is there is a lot of themand cost effective doesn’t mean at all sizes, LCD’s are cost effective but once you hit about 46" the price starts going up much faster.
12.10.2008
meh. they deserve what they get for being stupid enough to spend over a grand on a freaking keyboard. for $1600 you can hire a room full of dwarves. they do all your typing for you AND it’s a free supply of comedy.
12.10.2008
anyone who pays 1600 for a keyboard deserves to know what a mistake he/she made, if that be by the same keyboard coming down in price by 1500 dollars or getting kicked in the nuts. (i’ve been told girls don’t have anything there so it wouldn’t hurt)
12.10.2008
***** awesome, I can’t wait for this stuff to become widely used, not just for video screens.
12.10.2008
Seems like great news until you realize that they gave no specific information and it was reported by a blog that you probably haven’t heard of before.
12.10.2008
No kidding. This "affordable" process that this "Rolled" program is supposed to implement could be years, or even decades away. I wouldn’t be getting hopes up about it yet, but it is a cool concept.
12.10.2008
Dugg because they are "cost-effective" but not yet "affordable".
12.10.2008
youtube.com/watch?v=HQ6jjfSL-wQ
12.10.2008
Go about 25 sec in
12.10.2008
Good job, Finland.
12.10.2008
I want a TV on my furnace. This will allow that dream to finally become reality.
12.10.2008
until im typing this on a oled display, its all sunshine and *****.
12.10.2008
"Once the ROLLED research makes OLEDS affordable, they may be embedded in clothing, used in “smart” product packaging, used as paper billboard replacements, and more."Just like in Minority Report, that’s awesome.
12.10.2008
Here’s a better article on it from physorg: physorg.com/news147969623.htmlStill doesn’t give numbers but “This brings down overall production costs three to five fold.” Sounds good if it’s true.
12.10.2008
Why do they always mention building it into clothes and product packaging when clearly the most important use is for bendable screens in is mobile devices so that they can have a screen size bigger than the actual object
12.10.2008
If only researchers could produce a commercial OLED solution, that would be awesome.Honestly, been hearing about the great almighty OLED for over 6 years now and its still not used in a mainstream product yet. Sure, some uber expensive retarded keyboard or some ridiculously expensive ultra thin 10" TV, or in a handful of cheap MP3 devices, but nothing people are actually using on a regular basis.I don’t know why they are suggesting that OLED is expensive to make, I first heard about how cheap this technology was to produce, they suggested they could use modified Epson printers to "print" an OLED screen, how fricken expensive can that be.So seriously stop hyping about OLED because IMHO its a dead technology that will be leapfrogged by something new in the next year or two, you know, a technology the researchers can ACTUALLY deliver to the customer rather then just writting white papers about it.OLED = RIP. I didn’t even know you. Where is my fricken laser display.