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Toshiba to Sell Big OLEDs in 2009?

The news is that Toshiba plans to bring an OLED TV to market by 2009. IDG reported it, but the story got better when the Register repeated it, adding that the OLEDs would have 30″ panels. These would be larger than Sony’s white hot 11-incher; larger than the 21″ OLED TVs that Toshiba and Mitsubishi…

Prototype Toshiba Gigabeat Sports Dazzling Display

We had all but given up on exciting new PMPs before seeing this new Toshiba Gigabeat prototype. And while Akihabara News has technically labeled it a DAP (audio only), we’re expecting that its gorgeous OLED 3.2″ WQVGA screen will find a use for our movies and TV shows as well. Sure, the display isn’t as…

Sony’s 3mm Thick XEL-1 OLED TV Finally Revealed, Japanese Launch this December

So this is what Sony’s special secret product is: its OLED TVs. We previewed them back at the beginning of the year and now we’ve got the details. 1,000,000:1 contrast, out in Japan on December 1, and $1,743 for an 11-inch model. Sheesh. Specs up next. https://gizmodo.com/sony-demos-9mm-thick-high-def-oled-displays-251613 Weighs 2 kgs Measures 287 140 253mm Contrast ratio…

Diesel Rolls Out OLED Watches, Two-Handed Time Telling Returns from 1970s

Here’s a badass-looking watch from Diesel that uses an OLED display in a minimalist style. At first glance it looks like it’s all bracelet, but then you press a button on the side and its aqua-colored OLED lights up with the time of day. It’s available in stainless steel (DZ7080) for $215, but if you…

Portable DVD Player with Sexy-Flexy Display Transforms Into Mini-Theater

Here’s a wild-ass looking portable DVD player (PDP) that reminds us a lot of that player we showed you last month that looks like a butterfly knife. This concept takes that design a few years into the future, looking like it’s about the size and unpocketable shape of that crazy iPhone clone Intel was flaunting…

Nokia Prism Line Is Official, Still Goofy Looking

I don’t know how carving a bunch of geometric lines in a phone helps a company “tap into the cultural zeitgeist,” but that’s what Nokia is claiming their now-official line of Prism phones does. The lower-end 7500 is your basic multimedia phone complete with music player (MP3/AAC/WMA), 2-megapixel camera and Opera Mini for web browsing…

Remember those cool Fossil OLED watches we told you about? They’re available now for $105. [fossil] https://gizmodo.com/fossil-oled-watches-tell-time-impersonate-better-gadge-280021

OLED market projected to reach $2.9 billion by 2012 and $5.9 billion by 2014. [prnewswire]

Fossil OLED Watches Tell Time, Impersonate Better Gadgets

OLEDs are finding their way onto all sorts of gadgets these days, from ridiculously overpriced keyboards to weird flexible screens that serve little purpose. It appears that watchmaker Fossil will soon be joining the ranks of the OLED purveyors with their officially unannounced men’s watches. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen an OLED watch,…

Sony Flexi-OLED Screen Is Trouble Waiting to Happen

Today Sony showed off some 2.5-inch OLED screens that are capable of being slightly bent. It is made out of a glass substrate and is only .3mm thick. Supposedly the display has been created for lightweight, bigger and “softer” electronics, but all I see is problems with this. Sure it could be integrated into phones…

Optimus Finds New OLED Manufacturer, Is Back on Track for Failure

Oops, excuse my editorializing in the headline, but seriously I have been calling for the failure of this thing for months. Anyway, if you remember, right after CeBIT the OLED manufacturer Optimus was going to use dropped them like a bad habit, but now they have found a super OLED manufacturer who is supposedly going…

New Sony 11″ OLED TV For Sale in 2007

This time Sony doesn’t want to be left behind on the display front, and they are going to ship a real ultra-thin 11-inch OLED television in 2007. Not another prototype: a real TV. A small one that will cost a few times more than a comparable LCD, but a telly nonetheless. https://gizmodo.com/sony-demos-9mm-thick-high-def-oled-displays-251613 They won’t say…

Toshiba Matsushita Display Introduces New 21″ OLED Screen That Nobody Will Be Able to Buy

Another week, another display manufacturer trying to make us believe that large OLED screens are going to happen someday. Like Really-Real-Soon-Now™. This time it’s the Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Corporation, a joint venture that has been mass-producing 3.5-inch OLED screens for some time, showing off a 20.8-inch screen with a rather smleh 1280 x 768…

Home Theater Watch Is Neither for Home Nor a Theater, Barely a Watch

Apparently, someone at Gadget Universe (an Alexander Innovation Wizard Company, the geniuses who previously brought you the Sun Visor Theater, the Pseudo-UFO and other potentially hazardous inventions) got the idea that watching movies on a 1.5″ 128 x 128 pixel OLED screen mounted on a watch was a good idea. So good in fact, that…

Optimus Flips-Flops Back to Color, Delays Again

In less exciting news, it seems the whacky Russians have decided to ditch the whole monochrome-only Optimus keyboard and revert back to full color and OLED. The December pre-order date has also been canned. Yawn. https://gizmodo.com/optimus-keyboard-takes-another-hit-only-available-in-b-217311 Optimus Project Blog [Livejournal]

Video Playing Watch On Sale at ThinkGeek

If your lifelong dream was to watch 128×128 video on a watch like the one you had in 8th grade, well, now you can die happy. The same watch as sold on Brando, but about $10 cheaper for the 2GB version and ships from inside the US. Of course, the thing uses an OLED display,…

Samsung Slims Down TV to a Ghastly 12mm, Anorexia Doctors Called

Samsung has figured out a way to make HDTVs even thinner by combining OLED and active-matrix LCDs. The innovation eliminates the backlight, the thickest part of a flat panel, thus shaving it down to an iPod nano-esque 12mm thick. The 1600×1200 demo unit’s 17-inch screen is shaped in the old-fashioned 4×3 aspect ratio and eeks…

Verizon’s Nokia 6215i Is The First US OLED Phone

The 6215i is the first cellphone in the US with an OLED display. Why is that important? Because it’s the tip of the OLED spear, a display technology which may just replace LCDs in cellphones sometime within the next few years. This phone has two displays, one 128×128 and one 96×64, that are both OLED.…

Samsung YP-K5 MP3 Mini Boombox: First Unboxing, Review, and Video.

Here it is. You might have seen some fuzzy flyby images of this MP3 player with speakers built into its backside. But we’ve got it in our hands. And we love it. For a 4GB player, it’s kinda chunky. The magnesium case is almost three times as thick as a nano, even though it has…

Flexible OLED Video Demo Reminds Us Of the 80s, Only More Flexible

Don’t let the old school synth-style music fool you, this FOLED display is cutting edge. FOLED, which stands for Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diodes, can be placed on other flexible material like plastic or metallic foil. It offers an improvement over regular LCDs that need to be built on glass substrate. FOLED – Flexible OLED…