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The Future Of Light - Organic LEDs

Posted by michael on from the let-there-be dept.

pmbarth writes "The filament based or fluorescent light technology has not changed for a long time. However, there appear to be new lighting technologies on the horizon. Personally, how cool would it be to just 'have light', and not have a bright light-source to contend with? Bye-bye incandescents!"

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  1. Mmm...organic! by NaturePhotog · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not only energy-efficient, but tasty and better for you, too! :-)

    Also of interest was the article linked to from the posted one, about using organic LEDs for thin, bright computer displays.

  2. Weird Tech Paper by Prof_Dagoski · · Score: 3, Interesting


    This reminds of a weird tech paper from Digital Equipment Labs I once read. Some engineers were screwing around on break and one of them hooked their kim-chee to a power source and some test equipment. They discovered two things: one the kim-chee acted like a rectifier and that it also acted like a LED. They then did some preliminary research into the field of vegetable electronics. I'm not sure how serious this really was, but it was a fun read. This used to be on the web, but I haven't seen it in ages. Has anyone else read this?