seems OLED could be closer than we think

[dragon2309]

Remeber all the hype about OLED that led to nothing because as opposed to LCD etc... it needed a lot of energy to produce white, and none to produce balck, this is the other way round with LCD's. So costs would have been higher. Well, it seems moves have been made to get on with this stuff, take a look http://www.computerpartner.nl/article.php?news=int&id=2515

 

[WeatherMan]

The optimus keyboard has been made with OLEDS, but IIRC they don't have a very good lifespan

 

[dragon2309]

yeh, they dont have a long lifespan, because to amke the colour white, they have to have a high voltage put through the OLED cells, seeing as well over 80% of most screens on a PC are made up of white, or brighter colours, the cells are constantly at full voltage. Just look at this site for example, or google, or MS Office (word, excel, publisher etc....) all have a wide theme of white.

OLED screens wont last that long wich is why costs are higher and its why we dont all have OLED screens right now.