Posted on 10/11/2008 10:33:42 AM PDT by LibWhacker
NISKAYUNA, New York (AP) -- On a bank of the Mohawk River, a windowless industrial building of corrugated steel hides something that could make floor lamps, bedside lamps, wall sconces and nearly every other household lamp obsolete.
It's a machine that prints lights.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Ping for Later!
WOW!
This is all about OLED technology. This will be a very big deal in a very few years. It will revolutionize HDTV and eventually eliminate the standard light bulb. An interesting read on current progress which includes an expensive but practical 11” TV made by Sony. It’s coming for sure but it will be a few years.
Sounds good. Let’s sell the technology to China.</sarc>
Wonder how much electricity they use compared to incandescent and flourescent. I just skimmed the article so maybe it said in there, but I didn’t see it.
The answer now is “it depends.” But in future generations, power consumption per unit of light should be better than 1 order of magnitude lower than incandescent.
jas3
I read about this a while back. You can put a sheet of this on the ceiling and have light evenly dispersed across a room. Lots of other excellent application.
bmflr
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