Organic LEDs To Replace LCDs?

Shostykovich writes "There's a story here on the LA Times about some interesting organic-LED technology being explored by the likes of Kodak and IBM. These LEDs are made using "organic compounds", and they're hoping to replace LCDs with these in a few years." Light on tech talk, but they see to think that these could work for head displays.

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Yea, these things are neat

[Natalie's Hot Grits]

We have been working with prototypes of these kinds fo things for a few months.. they really are quite neat..

One thing that is nice is that they use a LOT less power than conventional LCD's. Also, there is no ghost when animation occurs like in conventional LCD displays.. Even in high quality laptop and flatpannel displays you get teh ghost effect, it makes quake3 almost unplayable.

This stuff is really cheep to build too... Once R&D is finished, cost of manufacturing will be almost as trivial as copying mp3's on napster. No more paying $900 for a new laptop display when it breaks.

Overall, this is very great technology. I cant wait for my Crusoe 1ghz with this display and wireless ethernet to come out :)