Leading analytics company, IHS, has forecast 10 trends that it believes will propel the lighting and LED industry through 2015, which it believes could lead to improved margins for companies and lower prices for consumers. “For the big three lighting suppliers, the road was bumpy: all of them recorded falling … [continued]
The world’s first “consumer-ready, affordable” OLED lamp is now available to customers in North America, via the product design studio Aerelight Design. The rather striking desk lamp utilizes an “advanced OLED light panel” to provide the warm, quite distinct “natural” light that the technology is well known for. The model … [continued]
The price of a typical high efficiency LED light bulb has been falling off the cliff lately, and it’s going to take another steep dive because the Energy Department has just chipped in $10.5 million for a new push to get more low cost LEDs into more sockets. The money … [continued]
LG Electronics released their “groundbreaking” new CURVED OLED TV in the US last week, and it is the first OLED HDTV to be officially ENERGY STAR certified. According to LG, “the 55-inch class LG CURVED OLED TV combines energy efficiency with the highest levels of picture quality and design to deliver … [continued]
Nearly a full year since the company was awarded Best of Show at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, LG has launched its award-winning 55-inch OLED super-thin television in Korea, with other markets soon to open. The LG Cinema 3D Smart TV is one of the thinnest televisions … [continued]
Paintable and printable solar cells are lowering the cost of solar power, and now researchers at Rice University have come up with a battery to match. They have developed a new paintable lithium-ion battery that can be applied to almost anything from beer mugs and bathroom tiles to plastics, glass … [continued]
The title of the Georgia Tech news release, “Stable Electrodes for Improving Printed Electronics,” might not have caught your eye, but this is some totally cool research. Here’s more from Georgia Tech (images via Georgia Tech but placed into the piece by me): Imagine owning a television with the … [continued]
We’ve written about OLEDs (full name: Organic Light Emitting Diodes) a few times on CleanTechnica, including their flexible potential and some work in Germany to bring down their costs. Ernest Beck recently had an interesting piece on ecomagination on the breakthrough work of some OLED researchers from UCLA that we’ve … [continued]
Many of us are accustomed to watching TV on high-quality plasma and LCD screens, but we pay a severe price in energy inefficiency. Toshiba has come up with a solution to our energy woes: flexible OLED paper that doubles as a TV screen.
OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) technology is still new, but the Universal Display Corporation has already developed a flexible OLED wristband prototype. The prototype, which is supported by the US Department of Defense, is currently on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
