Wednesday, January 31, 2007

What are OLED Displays?

There has been a lot of buzz about OLED Displays over the last few years. They're only now finally starting to go mainstream and becoming available in products that you can purchase.

The term OLED is an abbreviation for Organic Light-Emitting Diode. What makes OLED displays special is the fact that they can be manufactured to be flexible, transparent and very thin. They're also brighter and consume less power then traditional LCD displays with a back light, which means that you get greater battery life from your electronics.

These displays are being used in everything from electronics (including: cellphones, MP3 players, etc.) to clothing. Plus both regular consumer based manufactures and the military are exploring uses for this technology.

Check out the following Wikipedia article for more information on this subject.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nice post :)

Plus there are many other interesting 'future visions' that are possible with OLED. There is an OLED keyboard that has been around for some time in the web. And visions about windows that could act as regular windows at day and at night as a light source (possible with OLED technology).

Check out http://www.about-oled.com/gadgets.html for details of this 'gadgets' mentioned above.