Thursday, June 4, 2009
Weird and Wonderful Uses for OLED
Because OLED is so thin and flexible, it lends itself to many applications that be awkward for other display technologies. Without further ado, here are four of the coolest ones yet:
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Usually, a patient would be required to stay in the hospital to get zapped by red lazers to treat the cancer. Instead they can go home and let the OLED bandage do all the work.
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If cars used a thin OLED screen for the mirror, there'd be less need to worry about blind spots, because the 'mirror' could show anything. That's gotta make driving safer and more convenient.
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We mentioned this briefly in the first post. Imagine if keys could contain mini screens to portray their function. Instead of icons that we point and click with the mouse, one can start to press the keys directly. Keyboard shortcuts suddenly look a lot more intuitive. Even the letters of the alphabet can change completely for things like 3D programs.
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OLED has often been mentioned as being useful to incorporate transparent images into eye glasses to augment reality. Well this gizmo goes a step further and responds to eye movements (blinking, eyeball moving) to scroll and otherwise manipulate imagery inside the lens. An eye sensor is used to track the eye. Pretty nifty stuff...
