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Traffic supporting OLED luminaries concept
Jan 30th
Swedish research firm Visual Guidance Systems Scandinavia AB (VGS) developed a new road lighting system concept based around OLED luminaires. The basic idea is that the lamps come in different shapes (enabled by OLED area-lighting panel designs) that signals information processes to support drivers – so a lamp above a crossroad or a pedestrian crossing will signal the object beneath it: VGS sent us an article showcasing this new concept – with lot’s of examples and discussions how this compares with current road luminaries and advantages in safety and traffic management. You can download the article in the link below.
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Philips to reach OLED lighting panel efficiency of 120 lm/W by 2019
Jan 24th
Digitimes Research posted about Philips lighting unit, and they said that the company’s goal is to reach an efficiency of 120 lm/W for their OLED lighting panels by 2019. We talked to Philips and indeed they confirm this number. Philips is gearing up to start production in their new Aachen production plant which will increase production capacity tenfold and will also lower prices considerably. This is quite an increase from the panels Philips make today. The regular Lumiblades offer around 12 lm/W, while the Lumiblade Plus (a phosphorescent panel, developed by Konica Minolta and produced by Philips) offers 45 lm/W. We reviewed Philips’ new Lumiblades recently , here’s the short hands on video: read more
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Blackbody shows new OLED lamps, releases 2012 catalog
Jan 22nd
Blackbody is exhibiting in the Maison & Objet conference in Paris, showing their latest OLED chandeliers – including some classics like the Big Bang , and some new ones like the I.Rain by Thierry Gaugain, shown below. Blackbody says that they have already installed several chandeliers at different places. For example the “Wishing Tree” by Aldo Cibic is installed in the opera Ristori in Verona, Italy, while the Mini Bang is installed in Hotel particulier XVIIIe siècle in Paris. read more
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Color changing OLED Chair art project
Jan 8th
Artist Takahiro Matsuo designed a color changing “OLED Chair” art project which uses Verbatim’s Velve color-tunable OLED panels . This chair was on show at Tenjin IMS, Hakata, Japan in December 2011. The Velve panels do not generate any heat, so you can actually sit on this chair: read more
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Philips Lumiblade OLED lighting panels hands on review
Nov 27th
Philips released their first OLED panels (or Lumiblades, as they call them) back in April 2009, and in May they sent us a few panels for a review . Since then Philips released new panels, and last week they sent us a new “experience kit” with two OLEDs: a white dot and a white tall rectangle. read more
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New Lumiblades coming to OLED-Info soon
Nov 17th
Philips were the first company to release sample OLED panels, back in April 2009 . In May 2009 they sent us a few Lumiblade panels for a review . Now I’m happy to report that they will send us new Lumiblades for a 2nd review shortly. These will be larger panels and it’ll be interesting to see how they compare with panels from Lumiotec , Osram and Blackbody . Philips also released a new video showing their OLEDs (see above). You can see the Edge and O’Leaf OLED lamps, the Mimosa Installation and the Living Shapes OLED wall .
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Lumiotec Hanger and Vanity OLED lamps hands on review
Nov 17th
Back in June, Lumiotec announced a couple of new OLED lamps: the Vanity desk lamp and the world’s cheapest OLED lamp, the $450 Hanger . Both use a single square OLED panel (we reviewed a previous generation panel back in September 2010 ). They were kind enough to send both lamps for a review, and after a few weeks of dealings with the Israeli customs, the lamps finally arrived and here’s my review. Both lamps use Lumiotec’s Version-2 square OLED panels (14.5 x 14.5 mm active area) which feature a color temperature of 4,900K and a maximum luminance of 2,700 cd/m2. The panels are not very efficient at 10.5 lm/W ( they use all-fluorscent OLEDs ). The Hanger consumes 12 W while the Vanity consumes 13 W (the extra Watt is because of the electric touch sensor, more on this below). Here’s our hands-on review of Lumiotec’s Version-1 panels . read more
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The Holst center shows a 30 x 30 cm flexible OLED lighting panel on metal foil
Nov 15th
The Holst Centre released a short video showing a new 30×30 cm flexible OLED lighting panel on a metal foil: We don’t have any more details yet, but this is quite a nice prototype…
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Motorola’s Droid RAZR now shipping
Nov 11th
Motorola’s Droid RAZR is now shipping – starting at $111 (with a Verizon contract). The Droid RAZR is an LTE Android smartphone with a 4.3″ qHD (960×540) Super AMOLED Advanced display. Other features include Gorilla Glass, a dual-core 1.2Ghz CPU, 8mp camera capable of Full-HD video, 1GB RAM, 16GB of flash memory (and a microSD slot). The RAZR is very thin at 7.1mm.
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Apple files a patent discussing an OLED BLU for an LCD display
Nov 11th
Apple filed a new patent that discusses using an OLED backlighting unit (BLU) for an LCD display. According to the patent filing, an OLED BLU unit may be thinner than a LED BLU and also have an improved light uniformity without using light guides. The BLU may act like a ‘one large white pixel’, but Apple also discusses the option that it may have several controllable ‘areas’ which will receive grayscale image information which may be used to modulate the light brightness (like local-dimming in full-array LED panels). Finally Apple says that the BLU will include one or more ‘OLED units’ bonded between two glass pieces. We’re not entirely sure what they mean. Using an OLED BLU for an LCD display has been discussed before, although it seems that it will not be a very efficient design – if you have a white OLED, why not use color-filters and not an LCD at all? This is the architecture that LG Display proposes for its upcoming OLED TVs . read more
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