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A dress made from OLED panels
December 13, 2009 | 6:03 pm
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By Chris Meadows
You may be aware of Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) technology as being the newest new thing in the field of color displays for handhelds and tablets (even if, as some believe, it would not be the most efficient display for an e-book reader).
But as this piece in Wired shows, display panels may be thinking too small. How about an entire dress made out of OLED panels?
Granted, this dress is fairly primitive in terms of display technology: the OLED seems be be used strictly for making the entire dress glow or change colors as a unit. (It puts me in mind of the fluorescent dress worn by Minmei in the Macross: Love Do You Remember movie.)
But if the OLED really is that thin and light now, maybe in a few years we will see the sort of controllable display technology integrated into everyday clothing, so we can change the colors or the slogans on our T-shirts as easily as we update our Twitter accounts.
Of course, one Saturday morning cartoon featured that technology as far back as the 1980s…
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Comments:
Gentlemen, let’s be very clear that this OLED dress is not designed with a touch screen.
Love the comment, Betty.
In the early days of digital/electronic ink, some developers saw a day when the technology could be woven into fabric so that color and design could be changed at a whim. A tee shirt could change color, and its slogan could change every day. (Be the first person with a rude Tiger Woods slogan tee!)
The fabric could also be used in home decor in curtains, furniture cushions, etc., and even on wall paper.
As a writer, I can imagine this technology so small that it could be sprayed on the face for makeup or even a disguise.