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Sony’s XEL-1 OLED Lasts Half as Long as You Expect, Says Study

Now, we’ve been raving about Sony’s diminutive XEL-1 OLED TV for a while, but an independent investigation by Displaysearch is casting doubt on the screen’s lifespan. They ran two XEL-1 units for 1000 hours, then measured the change in brightness emitted by the screen. They concluded that it would take 17,000 hours for the screen…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

EP2502 Cellphone Watch: Surprisingly Stylish, and Waterproof

There’s something about the idea of cramming a cellphone into a wristwatch that keeps the designs rolling out, but is this the first one with a touch of style? Possibly, with that metal case and strap, and looking not too horrifically fat to wear. The EP2502 even has a 1.3-inch OLED touchscreen, a 2-megapixel camera,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Panasonic Joining OLED TV Game?

In a end-of-article one-liner afterthought, Digitimes noted that Panasonic will begin making OLED TVs “in the future.” They’ll join Samsung (2009) and LG (2011) in jumping off the current LCD and Plasma train, which is an increasingly competitive (read: lower margin) market. [Digitimes] https://gizmodo.com/samsung-oled-tvs-in-2009-382434

Television Jason Chen

LG OLED TVs Will Hit in 2011

While Samsung seems a tad wishy-washy about exactly when they’ll be producing OLED TVs, LG has set out a clear date. It’s 2011 apparently: Though they’ll be investing in next-gen LCD production lines too, the plan is to have volume production of 32-inch OLED screens within three years. [Digitimes] https://gizmodo.com/samsung-oled-tvs-in-2009-382434

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Samsung OLED TVs in 2009

Samsung SDI has just made a bold assertion about OLED technology: TVs and monitors will be using the tech just next year, and it will be in flexible displays by 2010. And Samsung’s putting its money where its mouth is by doubling Active Matrix OLED production capacity from 1.5 to 3 million panels per year…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Sony Shows Off 0.3mm-Thick OLED Display; Doesn’t Get Much Thinner Than That

Sony’s 11-inch, 3mm-thick XEL-1 OLED TV is OK, I guess. But sometimes I worry that it’s just too thick. I mean, 3mm? Come on, Sony. Who do you think you’re dealing with here? Luckily, it looks like Sony is working on a new 11-inch OLED, one that’s 10 times thinner than its expensive predecessor. https://gizmodo.com/sony-xel-1-oled-tv-review-verdict-small-on-size-larg-372072…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Sony’s Pro HD Camera is World First to Get OLED Viewfinder

Organic Light Emitting Diodes are getting used in phones, lamps and now the world’s first professional camera color OLED viewfinder. The HDVF-EL100 sports an 11-inch screen, and apparently it’s Sony’s first non-consumer application of the display technology. The 960 x 540 pixel screen’s wide acceptance angle and deep contrast is designed to help operators achieve…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

World’s First OLED Lamp

We’re not sure why someone would want to make an OLED desk lamp at this point in time, what with the technology being relatively new and somewhat expensive right now, but OSRAM Opto Semiconductors and designer Ingo Maurer have done just that. This lamp, called “Early Future”, is made up of ten distinct OLED tiles…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Analyst Pulls 2nd-Gen iPhone OLED Display Rumor

Another day, another analyst making crazy predictions about Apple products that most likely aren’t true. Today it’s Ken Dulaney of Gartner saying the second generation iPhone will have an OLED display instead of the current LCD display. Where did Ken get this wacky idea? “‘Rumors’ overheard in Asia.” Here’s our take on it. 1) OLED…

Tech News Jason Chen

Sony XEL-1 OLED TV Review (Verdict: Small on Size, Large on Beauty)

Why is this dinky little TV so important? Its screen is roughly the size of the box that Lebowski comes in, and it costs hundreds more than the 50″ plasma overshadowing it in the picture. Why so important? Because this little TV is LCD’s Grim Reaper. The days of the LCD are numbered—the time of…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

MIT Media Lab’s Siftables Are Cool, But Ultimately Useless

These Siftables from MIT Media Labs are small Post It-sized displays with processing power built in, allowing it to communicate with other Siftables as well as detect motion and proximity. You’ll have to see what that means in the video, as they have different examples of shaking these Siftables, connecting them together, and having each…

Tech News Jason Chen

Art Lebedev Designing Wireless Optimus Mini 3 3.0

Art Lebedev and his Lebedevites are hard at work designing a follow-up to the Optimus Mini 3, a smaller, three-buttoned version of the Maximus keyboard we saw at CES. Here’s what they’re thinking: wireless, possibly Bluetooth, maybe AC-powered. People use this to control PowerPoint presentations (good idea, you can see what’s coming up before others…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

This is pure speculation, but I can’t help liking this laptop mockup with an Optimus-Maximus-style OLED keyboard. Sure, it’d be a $1000+ option that wouldn’t do much substantive good in the long run, but hey, people are paying the same amount for SSDs, so you know this would sell. Heck, you could even combine the…

Tech News Adam Frucci

What the Samsung Soul’s Haptic OLED Touchscreen Soul Patch Is Like

The Samsung Soul tries, and largely succeeds at making a touchscreen 5 way navpad. Like the Maximus Optimus keyboard, the controller is backlit by an OLED screen (this one is a two color deal) that changes icons depending on the context: In the media player, you get FF/RW and play/pause controls; in the calculator, you…

Gadgets Brian Lam

XEL-1: Sony’s First OLED TV Reviewed by Sound and Vision (The Bastards)

I can’t say I’m not jealous that Al at Sound and Vision for getting first domestic review of the upcoming Sony 11-inch OLED TV. The set has one of the highest price/size ratios ever, but it also pulls off one of the highest performances of any modern TV, too. Here are the particulars, in case…

Reviews Brian Lam

The Next New Hotness in Cameras for Canon: Built-In GPS for Geotagging, Fuel Cells and OLED Displays

The megapixel race is essentially over (maybe)—besides holding little weight w/ geeks anymore, even the lowliest shooters pack in eight (noisy) ones. So now, it’s all about features: Gravy is the new steak. Canon’s main mouthpiece, Chuck Westfall, says that one of Flickr fiendsters’ and OCD metadata hounds’ wet dreams—built-in GPS for automated geotagging, will…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Foxconn and United Keys Bring OLED Keyboards This Summer on the Cheap

The only complaint we have with the Optimus Maximus display-changing OLED keyboard is its price, which is why this news of United Keys and Foxconn teaming up to build their own keyboards is exciting. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-optimus-maximus-keyboard-341896 Foxconn, if you remember, manufactures many of Apple’s iPods while at the same time breaking Chinese labor laws—which to us…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Samsung’s 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

It’s still years away from mainstream adoption—and there are huge barriers to manufacturing the larger screen sizes—but Sony and Samsung are already slogging it out to achieve the largest screen size for its prototype OLED TVs. (Toshiba already took its 30-incher out of this year’s battle.) The active-matrix organic light-emitting diode technology (AM-OLED), produces brighter…

Gadgets Noah Robischon

PC + Lamp = Turning Lamp

Turning Lamp by designer Seungchan Lee, is a revolutionary design that blends a lamp and a PC; two items that aren’t usually associated with each other. The PC sits atop a lamp stand that still has its power-pull-cord, allowing for the PC’s power to be controlled by simply pulling on the cord. With an OLED…

Tech News Christopher Mascari

Justify Your Gadget: Optimus Maximus Keyboard

Kotaku readers will already recognize our Justify series, but we give people 15 seconds to pitch us their product or answer a question. If they make it, great. If they miss it…you don’t want to know. For our inaugural Justify Your Gadget, we talked to Art.Lebedev’s very own Art Lebedev. So can he justify all…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Sony’s XEL-1 OLED Lasts Half as Long as You Expect, Says Study

EP2502 Cellphone Watch: Surprisingly Stylish, and Waterproof

Panasonic Joining OLED TV Game?

LG OLED TVs Will Hit in 2011

Samsung OLED TVs in 2009

Sony Shows Off 0.3mm-Thick OLED Display; Doesn’t Get Much Thinner Than That

Sony’s Pro HD Camera is World First to Get OLED Viewfinder

World’s First OLED Lamp

Analyst Pulls 2nd-Gen iPhone OLED Display Rumor

Sony XEL-1 OLED TV Review (Verdict: Small on Size, Large on Beauty)

MIT Media Lab’s Siftables Are Cool, But Ultimately Useless

Art Lebedev Designing Wireless Optimus Mini 3 3.0

Concept Optimus Maximus Laptop Has an OLED Keyboard Built In

What the Samsung Soul’s Haptic OLED Touchscreen Soul Patch Is Like

XEL-1: Sony’s First OLED TV Reviewed by Sound and Vision (The Bastards)

The Next New Hotness in Cameras for Canon: Built-In GPS for Geotagging, Fuel Cells and OLED Displays

Foxconn and United Keys Bring OLED Keyboards This Summer on the Cheap

Samsung’s 31-Inch OLED Is Biggest, Thinnest Yet

PC + Lamp = Turning Lamp

Justify Your Gadget: Optimus Maximus Keyboard

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

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VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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