OLED

OLEDs or Organic Light Emitting Diodes will eventually replace modern LCD screens as the diplay technology of the future. LCD has supplanted CRT in recent years due to brighter displays, drastically reduced footprints, ease on viewing, higher resolutions, and reduced electricity costs. OLED will take this even further on most all of these fronts. LCD screens have to be backlight in order to be seen as they just have color and don't produce light. OLEDs do produce light and do it very efficiently. This will be most exciting for laptops as it will greatly reduce battery consumption, but will be beneficial for all technologies that require a color screen. OLEDs have already made their way into some Kodak digital cameras and as the technology improves we should eventually see them everywhere.

Samsung showed off a prototype 21 inch OLED Television in January 2005.

BBC discusses advances in OLED science in April 2006

New OLED advances from August 2006 

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