OLED - Next generation computer screens/displays!

[Timo]

OLED

Organic Light Emitting Diode. Is self-emitting (self electro luminescence), and thus doesn't need any backlighting like current laptop LCDs, and can use just 2-10 volts to generate light as bright and sharp as CRTs!!

Refresh/response rates are as fast as CRTs, and have a huge 160-degree viewing angle (unlike LCD equivalents), and again there are no dead pixels or dead pixels either. Can even be mounted on flexible surfaces!:-



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLED

Small, high-end devices (mobile phones, digital cameras etc.) are going to get a look in first, but eventually I guess we shall see these trickling down and making a debut on consumer laptops, and maybe in home-cinemas. Just as we've seen that LCDs have lowered in price over the past few years as consumerism for them has taken off.



Should also surely increase the battery lifetime of laptops by a great deal, as and when it happens. The screens are incredibly flat and light as well, making it awesome for portability, along with its flexibility.

Timo