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- Trekhawk, on 11/07/2008, -0/+37"A TV monitor that can be rolled up and put into your bag after use"
OLED Technology: Making life easier for cat burglars everywhere. - WheezyMustafa, on 11/07/2008, -0/+10I think we broke the website.
- doublefelix, on 11/07/2008, -0/+9What I 'don't know about OLED technology' could fill a technical manual. I doubt one digg submitted article is going to fill in the gaps.
- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 11/07/2008, -0/+9What does your ignorance of how PCs work have to do with an article on OLED?!
- arunforce, on 11/07/2008, -1/+6This is why we can't have nice things.
- Seann7656, on 11/07/2008, -1/+6This makes me want to watch Minority Report again
- JaysonthePirate, on 11/07/2008, -1/+5Didn't see it there but they have 1,000,000/1 contrast ratio. Blacks are absolute because there is no backlight. The one at the Sony store is amazing.
- danj484, on 11/07/2008, -1/+5I wouldn't worry, there are enough problems with the technology at present (especially lifespan varying dramatically between colors) that it'll be awhile before society pressures you to upgrade. And next time, google is the best tech support in the world (i.e., finding related issues online). That way you learn about computers, rather than Apple's policy of doing it for you behind a smokescreen.
- inactive, on 11/07/2008, -2/+6sup, epicfailguy
- malex, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3"Not anymore in a very near future."
Present future tense? - CrimsonBlur, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3What do you mean /conspiracy theory? That's exactly what American companies have been doing for years.
Haven't you noticed that the American mobile companies never have the latest phones? It's because they figure they can sell the just-shy-of cutting edge to Americans and mark it way up, claim it's cutting-edge, and make huge profits.
It's not just the cell phone providers doing this, it's just the most obvious example. - onux16, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3[from the summary] "Sounds like sci-fi? Not anymore in a very near future."
Then it's still sci-fi. - ethana2, on 11/07/2008, -1/+4RovertNeville: www.dell.com/ubuntu
The 1525n with 8.04 is amazing. - Smwbigboss, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2Samsung made a 40 inch one, but it wont be on sale any time soon
http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/20/samsungs-40-inc ... - filldeviant, on 11/07/2008, -1/+3Am I the only one that thinks America has been held back from technologies so that sheeple keep buying less advanced technology to enlarge already large corporations?
/conspiracy theory - TheZorch, on 11/07/2008, -2/+4OLEDs and LED lighted DLP TVs are the wave of the future. They both use less electricity.
- BlatheringIdiot, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2I like the fact they are organic. Too much technology is based on inorganic material.
- ePuck, on 11/07/2008, -1/+3Mac laptops are good! but for your desktop you should build (or have someone build) a pc
- jman583, on 11/07/2008, -1/+3My big question: are these going to eventually get cheaper then LCDs and Plasmas?
- Culero, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2BTTF Newspaper ftw
- blueblazer17, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2i'm with double....i don't know a lot more than this article tells me!
- dsmx, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2There is no reason why they won't and in theory they could be a lot cheaper than LCD's and Plasmas as the manufacturing process is easier apparently.
- spepin, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2I don't even want to imagine how much that would be.
- fuzzlog, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2How much for the girl?
- samssf, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1The problem I see with a paper-thin display is that you need a place for things such as connectors, speakers, etc.
- spepin, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1I keep seeing really small versions of these at Sony stores. They resolution and colour are amazing.
Mind you, the price tag is a little steep. - KMartSheriff, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1I saw one at a Sony Style store too. The color and brightness was awesome and the picture was very crisp, but I couldn't help but notice a flickering come from the screen (similar to a CRT monitor at a low Hz rate). I'm not sure if it was simply because of its size or that exact model, but it made it really hard to watch. Hopefully this won't plague all OLED tvs, because everything else about them (aside from their high price, which will drop of course) was excellent.
- mrebay007, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1Why is this linking to a dev site?
- 7righthandedmen, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1video?
- leandrotami, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1Start making wallpaper rolls with them. Holodeck, here I come!
- expert01, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1Comment Jack: From wikipedia: "In 2007, experimental PLEDs were created which can sustain 400 cd/m² of luminance for over 198,000 hours for green OLEDs and 62,000 hours for blue OLEDs"
LCDs are usually rated at 60,000, along with plasma displays and LED's. If you use the screen for eight hours a day every day you're looking at 20 years of screen life. If you are addicted to your computer or TV and used it 14 hours a day, that's still 11 years. If it was a TV, at four hours a day, that's 32 years.
Personally, I expect my computer monitors to be replaced every ten years, at least. For the past decade, it's been once every two years (gotta love thrift stores). If I could get a large OLED monitor that lasted ten years, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Also, "Eventually, bendable, transparent OLED screens could be stacked to produce 3D images".
Basically, OLED screens can be printed in the factory (which makes them cheap), use less power while displaying a brighter, crisper, better image, have a wider viewing angle, better refresh rate, they can work good in direct sunlight... these sound great. And with retail units on the market, and the screens being used in more and more portable electronics, prices should drop like a rock soon.
Now if they can get my MRAM and Memjet printer on the market... - ScotchInBox, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1Actually I read an article in Technology Review about some female scientist who was working on it in IBM's labs - probably about 5 or so years ago. Great magazine BTW...
- Nitrodist88, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1I would really like it if they actually started releasing large OLED TVs, instead of talking about them.
- p3ngwin, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1this tech does, Tom Cruise doesn't.
- TheNewsReel, on 11/08/2008, -1/+1Craptastic.
- inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+0Roll on OLED and Laser TV.
- MerriamWebster, on 11/07/2008, -1/+1You're doing it wrong.
- inactive, on 11/08/2008, -1/+1I already know what OLED means, no need to tell us in the description.
Learn the Digg user base. - nrox653, on 11/08/2008, -1/+1Sir, you are an idiot. At least when it comes to *cough* tech discussion *cough*
Remind me what display technologies have to do with Microsoft and Apple again. - omgitsmit, on 11/07/2008, -3/+1Wearable OLED? OMFG TELLETUBBIES! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
- lamejoketeller, on 11/08/2008, -3/+1420th digg
- replaysMike, on 11/07/2008, -7/+2Actually I did need to know that stuff. Oh I see what you did there...
- inactive, on 11/07/2008, -11/+5So it looks like my wearable computer is not far off? Or is this just more tech buzz trying to make me feel my W2k is ancient, my 19In monitor not enough and I am too old to know the difference? However after taking to MS tech support (what a bunch of idiots) I am buying a MAC lappy next time.
- inactive, on 11/07/2008, -8/+2I will finally switch to flat-panel displays once OLED monitors become mainstream. I'm buying me a 19" OLED screen when they come out (IIRC, Samsung said it'll be next year).
I never liked the poor gamut of LCDs, so I've stuck to CRTs, but OLED looks to be the best of both worlds.
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