Also known as an OLED (organic - LED), these paper thin TV screens will be hitting the market big time in '09 and can be seen on YouTube. What's even more cool about these screens is the fact that they can be mounted on almost completely transparent materials. When produced properly, they can have a transparency of 85%, similar to a lightly shaded car window. This gives rise to the idea of car windshields being embedded with tv screens that can "highlight" the road and other objects at night.
Another application for this screen is in advertising. I don't mean billboards and mounted tv's though. I am talking about magazines with tv screen covers. Imagine next month's sports illustrated having a video of a baseball player hitting a ball rather than just a picture. This has a sort of Harry Potter newspaper feel to it.
But on a more practicle side, these tv screens use far less energy than normal LED screens. Since they are not backlight, only the pixels that need to be lighted are pulling energy. Couple this technology with the newer Lithium batteries that come in Laptops and you have a machine that can stay powered for days rather than just hours.
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It does sound like Harry Potter. It's interesting to hear that they use less energy. It would be nice to have laptops that could stay charged for longer periods of times. I wonder what the picture quality will be like. Not sure I like the idea of more possibilities for advertisements.
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