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2012-08-31

Sony's New HMZ-T2 Personal 3D Virtual Reality Viewer

Sony trims the fat on latest Personal 3D Viewer headset



Along with its 84-inch 4K TV, Sony also chose IFA 2012 to unveil the latest version of its head-mounted Personal 3D Viewer. The successor to the HMZ-T1 we tried out at IFA last year, Sony claims the updated HMZ-T2 model boasts a sharper display, improved sound and is some 20 percent lighter, making it easier on the ol’ neck muscles.

HMZ-T2 (HMZT2, HMZT2W.CEK) : Overview : TV & home cinema : Sony

HMZ-T2 Personal 3D Viewer

A personal cinematic home entertainment experience

Twin OLED HD screens, cross-talk free 3D viewing, virtual 5.1 surround sound & adaptable headphones
  • Play movies and games in High Definition 2D & 3D
  • Watch bright, clear, cross-talk free OLED screens
  • View for hours with Auto Colour Temperature
[...]

Enter a world of immersive entertainment

Light and comfortable, the Personal 3D Viewer is a head-mounted display for High Definition 2D and 3D viewing with virtual 5.1 surround sound. Perfect for movies and gaming, its twin OLED screens display vividly sharp images to absorb you in a truly personal experience.


Sony revamps Personal 3D Viewer with HMZ-T2 | Electronista

The biggest strength of the original model was its 3D image, which because of its true stereoscopic 3D effect delivered by separate OLED displays for each eye meant a pristine, cross-talk free, 3D image. Eye fatigue is also further reduced with the introduction of an auto-color temperature adjustment that gradually lowers the image tone intensity from blue to red. Other technical improvements achieved include a 24p True Cinema mode for viewing films at the speed as they are displayed in movie theaters.

Sony gets in your face with upgraded personal 3D viewer | Crave - CNET

Who wouldn't want to get up close and personal with a couple of vibrant OLED screens?

The HMZ-T2's profile looks like some sort of robo-fish.



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2012-03-11

Samsung Flexible OLED Display

Samsung flexible OLED gadgets incoming this year - SlashGear

Samsung is mass producing flexible OLED displays for products still on track for release in 2012, the company has confirmed, though the exact extent to which they actually bend will depend on more than just the panels themselves. Samsung Mobile Display’s assistant president confirmed the sales plans this week, Asia Economy Park News reports, insisting that “flexible displays will be commercialized within a year.” The initial implementations are expected to include smartphones and tablets.




DailyTech - New Samsung Flexible Display Patent Detailed

Foldable displays use plastic rather than glass as a substrate for the displays. The plastic allows a flexible display to be bent, folded, or rolled opening up the possibility of smartphones that are curved like bracelets or can be rolled up into a very thin profile. The patent in question showed images of just such a device with a screen that rolls up into a cylindrical holder.  
The displays can into electronic newspapers, while keeping the same features that are used to in rigid screens. One of the benefits of these flexible screens compared to rigid screens will be very apparent to any smartphone user who has dropped their device and crushed the screen.  
The flexible displays will be able to absorb the shock and bend rather than cracking and breaking, making a more robust screen that is lighter at the same time. According to the patent, the flexible display will be based on a substrate of flexible plastic, metal foil, thin glass, or other thin and flexible material. The patent also notes some the target products for the screens.



A Samsung Flexible Display Patent Emerges, Products due in 2013 - Patent Bolt

The display of patent FIG. 3A may be bent, folded or crooked with respect to a predetermined bending central line seen above as patent point #51. The sensor unit 20 may detect a degree of bending of the flexible display unit as the predetermined bending angle. If the unit is abused or not in use for a given amount of time, the power supply will shut off automatically.



Samsung's patent FIG. 3B simply illustrates the condition where the flexible display apparatus is substantially folded. In that particular bended state, it sure looks like it's mimicking a folded book, don't you think? Considering that Samsung earlier listed the possibility of using an electrophoretic display in an electronic book as one of their possible end user products, it's not much of a stretch at all to envision this being used as such in the future. A few other interesting concept designs have been leaked over time,  such as  this one.

Samsung Flexible AMOLED coming to a Phone near you in 2012 | OMG!Droid


The flexible display, we are looking to introduce sometime in 2012, hopefully the earlier part, said Samsung spokesman Robert Yi

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2012-03-05

Audi Visions OLED Technology




Berlitz is one of the development engineers who have helped put Audi in the lead in modern automobile lighting technology. LED daytime running lights and headlights are development milestones; the next step forward will be OLED. Displays using this technique have already reached series production maturity in the electronic industry. Berlitz and his team cooperate closely with Audi Design on utilizing OLEDs as exterior lighting for the automobile

More details and a video of Audi's concept OLED designs

Audi actually has 3 OLED based designs. The first is rather simple - rear lights that are made from four small red OLED panels, and a flashing turn indicator made from 8 panels.

The second OLED application is covering the car with stripes made of hundreds of small triangular OLEDs. This is beautiful, and also enables the car "to be identified in a whole series of ways that can be constantly varied".
The third application is the rear-mounted "swarm" - which makes tiny OLED lighting panels into a large display.


Audi Visions OLED Technology

The Audi roadmap for introducing OLEDs to series production will take several years to put into effect. At the current level of development, the new diodes only withstand low currents and the acceptable temperature range ends at about 80 degrees Celsius. OLEDs will make an appearance as rear lights in the relatively near future; for brake lights, which have to be about five times brighter, a few more years will elapse. But Berlitz can also visualize white OLEDs being used for daytime running lights and side lights.

The biggest target of all – especially for Audi’s designers – are three-dimensional OLEDs. The first prototypes are now appearing as part of a project with public support. They are fascinating: delicate, almost weightless ring-shaped sources of light, installed on various levels in the rear light units of an Audi TT.

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2011-02-26

Samsung's Full-Color Display with Quantum Dots

Connect the quantum dots for a full-colour image : Nature News




low-energy televisions.

Ink stamps have been used to print text and pictures for centuries. Now, engineers have adapted the technique to build pixels into the first full-colour 'quantum dot' display — a feat that could eventually lead to televisions that are more energy-efficient and have sharper screen images than anything available today.

Engineers have been hoping to make improved television displays with the help of quantum dots — semiconducting crystals billionths of a metre across — for more than a decade. The dots could produce much crisper images than those in liquid-crystal displays, because quantum dots emit light at an extremely narrow, and finely tunable, range of wavelengths.

Dots deliver full-colour display - physicsworld.com



Researchers in South Korea and the UK say that they have produced the first large-area, full-colour display based on red, green and blue quantum dots. The technology could spur the launch of colour TV screens combining a vast colour range with an incredibly small pixel size.

Both attributes stem from the intrinsic properties of the quantum dots, which despite being just a few nanometres in diameter comprise several thousand atoms that form tiny compound-semiconductor crystals. [...]

The First Full-Color Display with Quantum Dots - Technology Review



Samsung's four-inch diagonal display is controlled using an active matrix, which means each of its color quantum-dot pixels is turned on and off with a thin-film transistor. The researchers have made the prototype on glass as well as on flexible plastic, as reported in Nature Photonics this week. "We have converted a scientific challenge into a real technological achievement," says Jong Min Kim, a fellow at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology.
[...]
Quantum-dot displays would consume less than a fifth of the power of LCDs, says Samsung researcher Tae-Ho Kim. They promise to be brighter and longer-lasting than OLEDs. What's more, they could be manufactured for less than half of what it costs to make LCD or OLED screens.

This potential has caught the attention of big display manufacturers other than Samsung. LG Display is partnering with MIT spinoff QD Vision to develop quantum-dot displays.


QD Vision Inc. - Quantum Dot Technology for Lighting and Displays

Displays

QD Vision's Quantum Light™ products offer a unique solution for display systems, providing both superior light and color performance, while simultaneously reducing manufacturing and operating costs and significantly improving energy efficiency.  Quantum Light™ inks and optics are available for all types of displays, from mobile handsets to large, flat screen, high-definition televisions.  More »


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2010-05-27

Sony's Rollable OLED Display




Sony unveils super-thin OLED screen that can be rolled around a pencil

Sony has developed was it calls 'the world's first' flexible colour video screen, that is so sheer it can be rolled around a pencil.

The Japanese electronics giant created the 4.1" across prototype using an ultra-thin flexible material covered in organic semiconductors.

The ultra-thin screen continues to show a clear picture even when it is rolled


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Video: Sony’s new, super-thin OLED display wraps around a pencil



The display is just 80μm thick, offers 432 x 240 resolution (121 ppi), a contrast ratio of around 1,000:1, and produces 100 cd/m2 brightness. Sony says the OLED can be wrapped around a pencil with just a 4mm radius. And the OLED can actually continue to display images and video while being rolled up, which is (according to Sony) a world’s first.

Sony develops a rollable OLED screen



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May 26, 2010
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Sony Develops a "Rollable" OTFT*1-driven OLED Display that can wrap around a Pencil

-New developments with high performance organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) with an original organic semiconductor enable roll-up capabilities-


Technology Features

1. High performance OTFT with originally developed high-mobility and highly-stable organic semiconductor materials, PXX derivatives
 [...]
 

 2. Integration of a flexible gate-driver circuit with OTFTs
 [...]
 

3. Enhancement of flexibility with all organic insulators in the OTFT and OLED integration circuit
[...]

4. Achieved display capable of reproducing moving images while rolled-up around cylinder with 4mm radius
[...]

Sources
Sony unveils super-thin OLED screen that can be rolled around a pencil | Mail Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1281620/Sony-unveils-super-OLED-screen-rolled-pencil.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Video: Sony’s new, super-thin OLED display wraps around a pencil
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/05/26/video-sonys-new-super-thin-oled-display-wraps-around-a-pencil/
YouTube - Sony develops a rollable OLED screen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OvTLg4i2_U
Sony Global - News Releases - Sony Develops a "Rollable" OTFT-driven OLED Display that can wrap around a Pencil
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201005/10-070E/index.html

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SID - Society For Information Display
http://www.sid.org/
Sony Develops a “Rollable” OTFT-driven OLED Display that can wrap around a Pencil « Akihabara News
http://en.akihabaranews.com/47902/display/sony-develops-a-rollable-otft-driven-oled-display-that-can-wrap-around-a-pencil
Amazing: Sony's paper-thin 'rollable' flexible OLED display | ZDNet
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gadgetreviews/amazing-sonys-paper-thin-rollable-flexible-oled-display/15136
Sony unveils ultrathin rollable OLED | Crave - CNET
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20006000-1.html
Sony Shows Rollable OLED Display - PCWorld
http://www.pcworld.com/article/197182/sony_shows_rollable_oled_display.html
Sony Rollable OTFT-driven OLED Display - HiTech Review
http://www.hitechreview.com/tv/sony-rollable-otft-driven-oled-display/24861/
Sony's rollable OLED display can wrap around a pencil, our hearts (video) -- Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/sonys-rollable-oled-display-can-wrap-around-a-pencil-our-heart/
Sony Rollable Colour OLED Display
http://www.gadgetvenue.com/sony-rollable-colour-oled-display-05263054/
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2010-04-13

Colour E-Readers

Liquavista

Colour e-readers with video shown off

A colour e-reader that supports video and potentially web browsing has been shown off by Dutch researchers.

The prototype uses screen technology - based on century-old science - that its makers say is up to four times more energy efficient than LCD screens.

Once established in the e-reader market, Dutch firm Liquavista hope to see its displays integrated into other devices in the future.

But analysts question whether consumers will be enticed by the greener gadgets.

Liquavista said it expects the first e-readers using the "electrowetting" technology to be available by the middle of 2011 and the technology to then become more widespread.


LiquavistaColor & Texas Instruments eReader demonstrator




ASUS DR750


Times Online

Get ready for the newsstand in your hand

The next generation of ebook readers will deliver colourful, interactive papers and magazines wirelessly

Asus, the Taiwanese manufacturer that pioneered the netbook concept, has given InGear exclusive details of its DR-570 reader, to be released by the end of the year. Asus says it has developed a 6in, high-brightness, OLED colour screen that should run for a whopping 122 hours on one battery charge — and that’s not just when displaying text but under real-world conditions, such as running Flash video over its built-in wi-fi or 3G. If that claim stands up, it would make this game-changing device nearly as energy-efficient as today’s monochrome readers.

Asus DR-570 e-reader: fresh details!

The Asus DR-570 packs a 5.7-inch OLED display with a sharp 768×1024 resolution with a 0.03 second refresh rate, 4GB of flash storage, 412MB of RAM, a 1530mAh battery and an SD/SDHC card slot, and it weighs just 200g.

Format wise, the Asus DR-570 will support ePub, PDF, TXT, MP3, MP4 and AVI files and play back Flash videos too so it’ll be a real multimedia juggler. We can confirm it’ll pack Wi-Fi and 3G, but there’s no mention of WiMax as with the larger, monochrome Asus DR-950.


BenQ

BenQ Focuses on E-Readers

BenQ, Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, is going to draw its attention towards e-readers. The company does not have any plans to develop a tablet device which can
resemble the Apple’s iPad. Moreover, the producer
hopes that its color version of nReader will be available in the market this year and will become one of the keys to win the market.

[...]

The company intends to provide a color screen version of the e-reader, which will be available later this year. The original nReader was launched in January and has a price tag of US$280. The device is equipped with a 6-inch touchscreen and apart from displaying e-books, it can play music. The e-reader is available in Asian markets.

Qualcomm


Tablet with butterfly wings – video included


As the current set of eReaders such as Kindle and its peers settle in, developers are looking to improve with a further generation of products. The next generation will certainly include larger, colour screens and semi-conductor firm Qualcomm is tackling this with a Biomimetic display technology it calls Mirasol. Biomimetics is a branch of technology that mimics naturally occurring phenomena to solve problems.
 


E-Books: Mirasol Display Attempts to Trump E Ink



iRex

iRex promise color ebook reader in 2011: 3x brighter than rivals


E-reader manufacturer iRex have announced [pdf link] that they intend to have a color,  writable ebook reader on the market by 2011.  The device, which is currently unnamed, will use a system of  subtractive color mixing which, according to iRex, results in three times the brightness of existing additive color electrophoretic displays. 

PVI E-Ink

Color and Video Coming to Kindle? Partner Shows New Screens

Taiwan-based Prime View International, which last year acquired E-Ink, a top vendor of electronic paper displays, displayed 6-inch and 9.7-inch color e-reader screens at a trade show in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.


PVI has shown its color-screen technology to buyers of its displays including Amazon and Barnes & Noble, which sells the Nook e-reader, the PVI spokeswoman said. But she declined to comment on whether Amazon planned to use the screens in the Kindle.


Color and video coming to Kindle? Partner shows new screens



Fujitsu FLEPia

Hands-On With Fujitsu’s FLEPia Color eReader

Fujitsu’s FLEPia seeks to address the issue of color depth with an eReader that can display up to 260,000 colors when in high-def mode while still rendering black and white text fairly fast in Quick Mode. To get to this depth the reader takes three passes at rendering a page.
[...]

The FLEPia isn’t available in the US currently and may never be. The technology is impressive but still expensive, and tablets are elbowing in on the eReader market.

Notebooks.com First Look at the Fujitsu Color Ebook Reader





Sources:
  1. BBC News - Colour e-readers with video shown off
  2. YouTube - LiquavistaColor & Texas Instruments eReader demonstrator
  3. Get ready for the newsstand in your hand - Times Online
  4. Asus DR-570 e-reader: fresh details! | Electricpig
  5. BenQ Focuses on E-Readers | Top Tech Reviews
  6. InAVate - Tablet with butterfly wings – video included
  7. YouTube - E-Books: Mirasol Display Attempts to Trump E Ink
  8. iRex promise color ebook reader in 2011: 3x brighter than rivals - SlashGear
  9. Color and Video Coming to Kindle? Partner Shows New Screens - PCWorld
  10. YouTube - Color and video coming to Kindle? Partner shows new screens
  11. Hands-On With Fujitsu’s FLEPia Color eReader
  12. YouTube - Notebooks.com First Look at the Fujitsu Color Ebook Reader
Related:
  1. Liquavista - Electrowetting based low power, always viewable color video displays
  2. Liquavista colour e-reader in action! | Electricpig
  3. Liquavista intros color e-paper prototype; developer kit available soon | The Toybox | ZDNet.com
  4. ASUS DR-570 e-reader to sport 6-inch OLED color screen, 122 hours of battery life -- Engadget
  5. ASUS DR-570 color e-book reader gets detailed -- Engadget
  6. SiPix Microcup® Electronic Paper
  7. BenQ looks to color eReader rather than iPad clone - SlashGear
  8. BenQ: colour e-reader out 2010 | Electricpig
  9. BenQ Chooses E-reader Path Over IPad - Yahoo! News
  10. BenQ Global - Home
  11. mirasol® Displays | mirasol® Display Technology (IMOD) by Qualcomm
  12. How mirasol Displays Work: Micro-electro-mechanical Systems (MEMS) Drive IMOD Reflective Technology | mirasol® Displays
  13. LinkNotes: Qualcomm's Mirasol Color E-Reader
  14. iRex announces development of colour device for 2011 delivery - MobileRead Forums
  15. PVI shows 6" and 9.7" color E Ink prototypes, in talks with Amazon and B&N
  16. Fujitsu e-Book Reader Review - FLEPia Color eReader - Features of Fujitsu e-Reader | Reviews by TechnoTalks.com
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2010-01-03

Lomox Light-Emitting Wallpaper

Times Online

Glowing walls could kill off the light bulb

Light-emitting wallpaper may begin to replace light bulbs from 2012, according
to a government body that supports low-carbon technology.


A chemical coating on the walls will illuminate all parts of the room with an
even glow, which mimics sunlight and avoids the shadows and glare of
conventional bulbs.

Thomas Edison

Organic LEDs could kill off the light bulb, first created by Thomas Edison

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Bright future for lighting technology with glowing OLED wallpaper

World's first multilayer white light-emitting OLED

The paper-thin OLED material is capable of emitting light almost as bright as fluorescent lightbulbs. Photograph: Everett Kennedy Brown/EPA

Lomox Limited, a two-year-old company based in north Wales, awarded more than £450,000 today by the government-backed Carbon Trust to accelerate the development of its OLED technology.

Carbon Trust
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Lomox Ltd
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BBC

It is hoped the technology will help cut carbon emissions from lighting in the next few years.

The company said it can also be used for flat screen televisions, computers and mobile phone displays.

And because it needs a very low operating voltage - of just three to five volts - it can be powered by solar panels or batteries, so it can be used outside to light road signs and barriers without the need for mains electricity.

Ken Lacey, chief executive of Lomox Ltd, which is attempting to bring the technology to market, said the company hoped to make it available to lighting and screen producers by 2012, with outdoor applications leading the way.


This technology has the potential to produce ultra efficient lighting for a wide range of applications, tapping into a huge global market

Mark Williamson, Carbon Trust


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Sources:
  1. Glowing walls could kill off the light bulb - Times Online
  2. Bright future for lighting technology with glowing OLED wallpaper | Environment | guardian.co.uk
  3. Revolutionary ‘light emitting wallpaper’ could start to replace light bulbs in 2012
  4. Switch on the wallpaper: Glow in the dark paper that could replace conventional light bulbs within a decade | Mail Online
  5. OLED Display, Low Energy Light, LOMOX® - An OLED Development Company
  6. BBC News - 'Light emitting wallpaper' could replace bulbs
Related:
  1. Off the wall idea lights up the room - Times Online
  2. Lomox Getting Closer to Bringing Us Glowing Wallpaper : TreeHugger
  3. Light-Emitting Wallpaper Using OLED Technology Could Light Our Homes By 2012 - Oled wallpaper - Gizmodo
  4. Help develop my technology
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2009-05-31

Flexible OLEDs Lighting

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The future of lighting: flexible OLEDs in any shape and color

Once flexible OLED lighting can be produced on Roll-to-Roll, a load of new applications can be envisaged. Do it yourself lighting foil that you can cut in any shape you want. Or energy efficient camper lighting you can stick to the ceiling or walls. Holst Centre and its partners are world-leading in the domain by demonstrating a flexible OLED tile without the use of ITO and with printed shunting lines. Whats more, the 12x12cm2 white OLED tile can be cut as is shown in the movie.
More at http://www.oled-display.net
clipped from www.holstcentre.com


See also:

  • Press release (English / Dutch)
  • Shared program on flexible lighting and signage
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    GE OLEDs - the future of lighting

    clipped from www.oled-info.com

    GE shows OLED lighting concepts video


    GE has produced a nice video showing all sorts of design concepts using thin, flexible OLED lighting panels. There's wearable OLEDs for emergency safety gear, illuminated stairs, walls and signs in stores and a nice "wall peel" OLED lamp:


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    Sources:
    1. YouTube - The future of lighting: flexible OLEDs in any shape and color
    2. Lichtgevend behangpapier stap dichter
    3. YouTube - GE OLEDs - the future of lighting
    4. GE shows OLED lighting concepts video
    Related:
    1. Printed organic lighting and signage
    2. http://www.holstcentre.com/NewsPress/PressList/Agfa_ITOfree_OLED.aspx
    3. General Electric OLED Sheets Double Efficiency as Organic Light Emitting Diodes Prices Lower - Popular Mechanics
    4. Flexible Oleds. Lighting''''s Future? | Product Design and Development
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