OLED DEVICES - OLED NEWS BLOG: January 2008

Monday, January 28, 2008

OLED DISPLAY LIFESPAN DOUBLES!

Doubles You Say?

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The concerns over the degradation and life expectancy of OLED TV displays seems to be a fleeting one now that Toshiba along with Matsushita Display Technology are developing a new OLED prototype display panel that effectively doubles their life expectancy.... from the current 20,000 - 30,000 hours ( that's about 8 hrs per day use for 10 years) as an average to over 50,000 hours.

According to recent reports the development of a 20.8" protype OLED display is designed with a metal membrane that assists in light transfer from the polymers within the substrate through the glass surface much more efficiently than current OLED standards. This will mean that the OLED displays natural brightness can be cut in half while maintaining the picture quality and effectively doubling the units lifespan.

With this huge step of increasing the lifespan of OLED TV displays, it looks like a major hurdle has been overcome in the development process of OLED display technology. This could possibly lead to larger screen OLED TV's being available for retail sooner than predicted. As with LCD and Plasma TV OLED TV will eventually become an everyday product as time and product development allows.

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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

WORLD'S THINNEST NOTEBOOK! APPLE'S MACBOOK AIR

Light As MacAir!

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It looks like Apple does it again with their 2008 debut of the the thinnest, most eco friendly notebook computer the world has ever seen........the Apple MacBook Air. A seemingly impossible version of a laptop that can fit easily into a manila envelope, is another one of Apples awesome computer creations with a unique & super sexy style, being super slim..... to say the least, its slightly wedge shaped, with the silver finished recycled aluminum chassis. Its ultra-slim design comes in at 0.16" to only 0.76" (3/4's of an inch) at its thickest point. It will definately be the envy of anyone who craves the latest in portable computer technology.

MacBook Air Features

Here now starting at us$1,799.00 (+), Apple is at least attempting to offer another unique product to the retail market at a reasonable price for such amazing technology. The "Air", to be as eco friendly as it can be, is made from recyled aluminum with a traditional laptop footprint of 12.8" x 8.94" at only 3 lbs. It comes with a full size QWERTY keyboard which is also backlit, an awesome razorthin 13.3" smart TFT LED backlit screen, an ambient light sensor, 1280 x 800 pixel resolution, 2gb DDR2 SDRAM, 80GB or 54GB SSD (Solid State Drive) 1.8" harddrive.Custom built for the Air by Intel, are the1.6gb or 1.8gb Intel Core 2 Duo processors. An oversized solid-state multi-touch trackpad is also an excellent feature. The laptop also includes the iSight video camera, micro-DVI port, one usb 2.0 and one audio out port. For graphics work the Mac Air has the Intel GMA X3100 graphics processor with 144MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory installed.

Battery power is estimated at 5 hours while wireless. Like MacBook and MacBook pro, the Air uses a slimmed down MagSafe connector for power. It also comes with a 45 watt power adapter. In keeping with eco isues the Air is made of fuly recylable aluminum, the first to use "mercury free" lcd screens with arsenic-free glass. All circuit boards are BFR- free and PVC-free plus the retail packaging uses 56% less material than their MacBook.

The Air does not come however with a built-in dvd or cd optical drive player but it has the ability through Remote Disc the Air is able to locate drives on other computers within its range to grab the information from a dvd or cd.

As with all of Apple's Macs, the Air has the latest virus resistant OS X Leopard operating system along with ILife. However there is no firewire connector for hooking up your digital video cameras or an ethernet jack when wi-fi is unavailable. A $29 usb ethernet cord is offered to connect via hardwire.

Want one?? Of course you do, but will you sacrifice features for design? For a laptop its certainly makes the category for breakthrough in its design and style. Also what happens to their product designs if they decide to incorporate OLED technology within Apples laptops? Possibly flexible screens, roll-out displays like a large pen or fold-out FPD smartphones utilizing FOLED (flexible OLED; Organic Light - Emitting Diode technology), & AMOLED (Active Matrix OLED) for example.Only time will tell if people will be hot for for this type of super thin and very lightweight portable MacBook Air but in any case, the "MacAir" Looks like another Apple winner to me!

Now available worldwide.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

CES 2008 - HDTV's - SuperThin Is In !

Samsung 31" AM-OLED TV

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Samsung

One of the biggest attractions at the Las Vegas 2008 CES show was the Samsung SDI (Samsung's affiliate dedicated to display production ) premiere of their 14.1 inch and the 31" AMOLED TV (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode tv technology). Samsung is now in the lead for creating OLED mid-sized displays however speculation is when they will end up in stores is another issue altogether.

Their organic displays will use half the power of other types of tv's but allow for the extreme 1million:1 contrast, 1080p resolution, colour gamut of 107%, brightness of 550nit, super deep blacks with colour only seen on OLED screens. The blacks in OLED displays are simply areas of the screen that do not phosphorize, so they are really a true black FPD in its true sense compared to other types avaialable.

Even though problems are presently found in manufacturing larger OLED screens, Samsung comes through with their razorthin 9.3mm 31" OLED TV at 40-50% lighter than LCD's of the same screen size. The panels life expectancy is said to be around 35,000 hours. Which is among the best in the active-matrix organic panels made to date by far.

It looks like samsung will begin commercial production of the mid to large size OLED TV's around 2009-2010. Samsung also showcased their 52 inch ultra-slim LCD TV and quadruple HD-LCD TV with a 50,000:1 contrast, 550 nit and mass production commencing in 2009. President of Samsung's Digital Media Business, Dr. Jongwoo Park, says " OLED and quadruple full-hd technologies represent an entirely new paradigm in picture resolution technology. This is a level of clarity that is in some cases four times beyond current industry standards, yet retain the slim fit and lightweight profile preferred among our customers".

Panasonic
Panasonic rocked the house when they unveiled their mind blowing 150-inch plasma television they say will be shipping by years end. This behemoth, said to be the world's largest plasma tv, sports : 4k x 8K" resolution ( about 8 megapixels). Panasonic was proud to state that 9 50 inch panels could replace it.

Pioneer

Pioneer Corps. showed their latest plasma display prototype that is just 9 millimeters thick or three eigths of an inch, now said to be the world's thinnest 50" diagonal tv coming in at 41 lbs. Their new Kuro concept tv's push the barriers of thin and lighweight displays, the company says. The Extreme Contrast TV gets to absolute black, says Pioneer. The tv has no backlight.....it uses chemicals embedded into the panel which emits light to illuminate the images. So when their is no charge their is absolute black.. They are looking at 2009 for their thin tech displays to make it into retail stores however.

Hitachi
Hitachi Ltd. showed off their newest LCD prototype display that is twice as thick as the Pioneer plasma model, a 50" PDP TV at a super slim 1.5 inches, whcih is the name of this particular model with three sizes of 1.5" lcd tv's - 32", 37", 40".

Sony
Sony debuted their 27" OLED TV with 1080p res and predictions are looking at 2009 for this one. The XEL-1 is now shipping into North America for around $2,500 but that will eventually come down as time and larger screens are produced.

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Apple Patents OLED Customizable Computer Keyboard

Optimus OLED Keyboard

'designed by Art Lebedev - a Moscow based studio

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Update Feb 08

Lebdev studios makes their announcement that they are now beginning shipments to ful-fill their pre-orders from late 2007 of their highly anticipated OLED keyboard, a first of its kind with the Configurator Software also now available.

Apple Patents OLED Keyboard

Apple's creative design teams are always going to surprise us with their innovativations not found in any other products on the planet and their recent patent filing in 2007 for an OLED QWERTY keyboard is starting to get some attention as of late.

With the increasing use of organic light emitting diodes - OLED - in devices today, Apple has proceeded to patent a dynamically controlled keyboard utilizing organic technology. It will be able to be mass produced since some of the standard components from traditional keyboards can be used in the OLED models. This means costs can be lower and made available simply enough for mass production if they proceed in that direction. This type of keyboard design would lend itself very well to media work, since applications like Adobe Photo Shop, FinalCut, Logic and more would be simplified due to the keys would each display more data on the keys...... or should we say touchpads?

OLED technology used for keyboard design, will ultimately lead to future styles that could easily incorporate a few added features such as; finger print recognition, video capability with AMOLED ( Active Matrix OLED )screens embedded into the keyboard plus stylized units using shaped FOLED ( flexible OLED) to vary the keyboard designs.

What are Oled's?

Oled's are solid-state devices which are composed of thin film layers of (carbon-based) phosphorescent organic chemical compounds imprinted onto a silicon; glass, or a polymer susbtrate..... which then emits light when an electric current is applied to the device. Since OLED's are emissive (they create their own light) it results in lower power consumption than traditional lighting methods today. The displays then become very crisp, bright, high contrast ratio, along with being super thin displays, as thin as 3mm in smaller displays up to 9mm. LCD's in contrast are utilizing a backlit technology, however the latest LCD's are now down to a staggering 9mm thickness for the newest HDLCD TV's, so LCD is far from being ousted from the number 1 position for displays worldwide for a few years yet to come.

Apple's First iOLED Gadget in the Works

The Apple OLED keyboard or most likely a keypad style will be super slimline with the keys having the ability to " morph " so the keys characters and functions are run via instructions from software. This would then mean that if you are using for example Microsoft Word, then the characters on your keyboard would change to your desired settings, than say if you are using Excel software. Another additional super feature is that the OLED keyboard's characters will also change according to the users language of choice that they care to write in. IPhones have a similar editing feature depending upon what mode you are in....like when entering email mode the pad changes to suit your need. Not too mention since the keyboard is backlit the user will be able to view it in low light conditions.

Patents can take a number of years to come to fruition if at all but as they make very clear....Apple embraces technology and they are superior in getting products to market....and fast! So it looks like 2009 -2010 and beyond will present some very interesting OLED inventions.

OLED keyboards will be available soon for all you gadget lovers but the price will definately be in that "new tech pricey range" as is normal for any new products debut period. I can't wait to try one out. What about you??

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Apple OLED KeyBoard Article:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/01/03/apple_developing_dynamic_oled_based_keyboard.html

Art Lebdev Link:

http://www.artlebedev.com/