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Believe in evolution? Edison, incandescent, flourescent, halogen, LED, then OLED

From staid and traditional industries the once-separate world of flat screens and lighting have merged to form one of the most exciting frontiers of innovation and new tech. CRTs are now museum pieces. Cathode ray tubes? Supported by both corporate and consumers' desire to save on energy bills and save...

Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Organic Light-emitting Diode, OLED-A, OLEDS, OLED Screen, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-05

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iTablet goes OLED,??bumped until late 2010

$2000? I doubt it.Apple puts themselves in a "premium" price range, but $2000 for a 10" tablet? Even they're not THAT crazy.No ThanksDon't need or want either, waste of space...If I want real gaming, I'd rather play real games on my PS3 or Wii on my flat screen; or on...

Tags: SunSHINE, iTablet, organic light-emitting diode, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

OLED notebooks to ship by late 2010, Samsung says

And the price??Yeah OLED is amazing, but the price is crazy. These notebooks will probably cost double or triple what the same notebook would cost with LED-backlit LCD. Then again, that would just put it in the same price range as the equivalent Apple notebook. (Oh yes, he said it!)like...

Tags: Notebooks, Monitors & displays, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., organic light-emitting diode, notebook, LCD

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Pico projector phones by the end of this year?

Pico projector phones by the end of this year?Good for casual readingI picture myself lying in bed and projecting the pages of an ebook on the ceiling.Display technology is there, but not the powerThe prototype I saw had to be plugged in to project, otherwise it would drain the battery...

Tags: Projectors, Scanners, projector, laser, Pico projector phone, Microvision, image

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

Heads up! Interactive data eyeglasses

A team of scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS in Dresden, Germany, is working on a device which incorporates eye tracking to influence the content presented to the viewer. Without having to use any other devices to enter instructions, the wearer can display new content, scroll through...

Tags: Team, Temple, Organic Light-emitting Diode, Image, Team Management, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Researchers develop printable rubber-like OLED displays

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have given new meaning to the term flexibility in the context of displays. They've developed of a stretchable display connected by organic light-emitting diodes OLEDs and organic transistors with a new highly-elastic conductor. [caption id="attachment_1542" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Credit: Takao Someya, the...

Tags: Nanotube, Transistor, Organic Light-emitting Diode, Printing, Nanotechnology, Document Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-05-11

Sony giving up on OLED TVs? Panasonic, Samsung push on.

Everyone who's seen Sony's 11-inch XEL-1 TV based on OLED technology has fallen in love with it, but that's apparently not enough for the company to keep working to develop bigger sets. In fact, a Sony spokesman bluntly admitted that "We really made the XEL-1 just to prove that we...

Tags: Sony Corp., Panasonic, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Organic Light-emitting Diode, TV, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Wacom introduces Intuos4 pen tablet; adds sensitivity, OLED

Tablet-maker Wacom today introduced its next generation of pen tablets, Intuos4, designed for the creative professional and offering improved pen performance and new features. The improved pen is capable of up to 2,048 levels of pressure sensitivity, which enables it to capture very...

Tags: Organic Light-emitting Diode, Wacom, Intuos4, Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-25

What should Apple do - Scale down Mac OS X or scale up iPhone OS?

What should Apple do - Scale down Mac OS X or scale up iPhone OS?dosen't matterunless you have apple computers, since they have a very samll percentage of the market, who really cares, Oviously, Apple will not do a netbook like everyone else.It will at least have a swivel screen...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Desktops, Apple iPhone, iPhone OS, Scale-down Mac OS X, Apple-do, operating system, Snow Leopard

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

Philips: Transparent OLED panels coming

Philips: Transparent OLED panels comingRehash?Philips presented the first flexible OLEDs a couple of years back, e.g. with Sony in 2007: http://www.pcworld.com/article/132249/sony_philips_unveil_flexible_oled_displays.html. OK, they weren't transparent, but why should transparent AND flexible be harder than transparent OR flexible? I guess they can charge more if it seems like a whole new...

Tags: organic light-emitting diode, Philips Electronics N.V.

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

Believe in evolution? Edison, incandescent, flourescent, halogen, LED, then OLED

Believe in evolution? Edison, incandescent, flourescent, halogen, LED, then OLEDCan they make them cheap?"Believe in evolution? Edison, incandescent, flourescent, halogen, LED, then OLED"Pretty amusing how we like to relate created objects to "evolution."I suppose if you define "evolution" as simply "change," it would work. That's how most old earthers...

Tags: Monitors & displays, organic light-emitting diode, LCD, light-emitting diode

Discussion threads 2009-03-05

Seeing the light: Dell makes major commitment to LED displays

Seeing the light: Dell makes major commitment to LED displaysWhat's the life-expectancy of an LED display?Is it expected to be better or worse than an LCD display? After all, the two are unlikely to be exactly the same, and if it's worse then surely the energy cost of manufacturing extra...

Tags: Engineering, tree-hugger, light-emitting diode, LED DISPLAY, DELL Makes, global warming, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

Optimus Maximus

Despite its innovative approach to keyboard design, the OLED-based Optimus Maximus keyboard is best considered an expensive novelty. Its $1,600 price tag keeps it out of the hands of the average consumer, and we also question the practical benefit of using 113 customizable OLED screens as an input device. There...

Tags: Keyboards, Lebedev Studio, default layout, Optimus Maximus, Optimus Corp., keyboard

Product reviews 2008-07-17

Samsung: OLED laptop in '09?

At an industry display conference this week, Samsung will unveil a prototype laptop with a 12.1-inch active-matrix OLED AMOLED display. If you have ever seen Sony's XEL-1 11-inch OLED TV, then you know just how cool an OLED laptop could be. On the other hand, if...

Tags: Disadvantage, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Organic Light-emitting Diode, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Canon's take on Sony, Nikon, Geotagging, OLEDs, and more

I apparently caught a "flu-like virus" according to the doctor despite having had a flu shot this year and have been sick as a dog since shortly after returning from Vegas, so apologies for the dirth of posts this week. In the meantime, check out this great News.com Q&A...

Tags: Nikon Corp., Sony Corp., Geotagging, Battery, Organic Light-emitting Diode, Flu, Canon Inc., Engineering, Janice Chen

Blog posts 2008-02-07

Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard on sale - on eBay!

Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard on sale - on eBay!A fool and his money are soon parted. nt;-)Probably has $200 worth of parts in it...OLED's ain't THAT expensive.RE: Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard on sale - on eBay!It's a great idea but its over priced. In the 80's my dad started...

Tags: Keyboards, OLED Technology, Art Lebedev, keyboard, organic light-emitting diode, Optimus Corp., Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard, eBay Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-01-29

Sharp shows off true 100K contrast ratio LCDs at 1" thick

Sharp shows off true 100K contrast ratio LCDs at 1" thickIn the Market for a new TV?Are you ready to retire your DLP display, or are you just amazed by the new and improved.I would definitely be impressed if any monitor offered such contrast. I am sure that...

Tags: Monitors & displays, LCD, DLP, Sharp Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-01-10

What Is OLED

Organic Light Emitting Diodes OLED displays are thought as the "Future screens". The Organic Light Emitting Diodes are receiving lot of attention all through the world as the new kind of display technology. The OLEDs have various advantages over the conventional display technologies. Firstly, fabrication process is very easy, and...

Tags: Organic Light-emitting Diode, OLED TV

White papers 2008-01-01

How OLED Works

The Organic Light-Emiting Diodes OLEDs have very huge benefit: they consume less power and offer brighter displays than the traditional LCD Liquid Crystal Displays or LEDs (Light-Emiting Diodes). This paper describes how the technology of OLED works and what kinds of displays might be possible. A light-emiting organic diode is...

Tags: Organic Light-emitting Diode, OLED TV

White papers 2008-01-01

Pioneer unveils revamped plasma technology

Pioneer unveils revamped plasma technologyPioneer has a good strategyPioneer has always marketed themselves as an affordable high-end electronics company, and I see no reason why this strategy won't be successful as long as their products can differentiate themselves from the pack.IssuesPlasma can produce good picture quality, but also has drawbacks....

Tags: plasma set, plasma

Discussion threads 2007-05-09