Flexible OLED Technology
Universal Display Corporation’s FOLED® flexible OLEDs are organic light emitting devices that are built on flexible substrates such as plastic or metallic foil. FOLED displays can offer significant performance advantages over LCD displays that are typically built on rigid glass substrates and contain a bulky backlight.
FOLEDs are thinner and lighter weight than other displays. This means that cell phones, portable computers, wall-mounted televisions and other products that use them can also be lighter and smaller.
FOLEDs can also be more durable - less breakable and more impact resistant - than other displays.
It is built on optically-clear plastic films and thin, bendable metallic foils are currently under development at Universal Display Corporation. Such displays may be made to bend, flex and conform to many surfaces. For example, FOLEDs may someday be found affixed to curved helmet face shields, shirtsleeve cuffs and automotive instrument panels.
Radios and Electronics: Starck Time and Weather Station
Design meets technology in this collaboration between Philippe Starck and Oregon Scientific. The Starck Time and Weather Station is a new combination of style and function. It includes innovative functions such as precision timing with a clock that automatically sets itself to the official U.S. atomic clock, accurate to one millionth of a second. Its cleanly partitioned LCD display features a bold time indication, and includes date, current indoor and outdoor temperature, barometric pressure with trend, humidity, moon phase, and easily recognizable icons to indicate the weather forecast for the next 12 to 24 hours. The time can be projected on a wall or ceiling, and users can choose from seven melodies for the two-minute crescendo alarm with snooze function. The digital AM/FM radio has a 16-station memory with sleep timer.
Originally a nightclub designer in the 1970s, Philippe Starck became widely known in the 1980s for projects ranging from the French president’s private headquarters to the Café Costes in Paris. When he made his curvybacked, spikelegged chair the centerpiece of design for the café in 1984, both chair and café became famous overnight. He is also known for interiors, such as the Royalton and Paramount hotels in New York and for product designs including furniture for Kartell, Driade, and Flos crystal for Daum cutlery for Sasaki and domestic wares for Alessi.
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TENORI-ON: Playing Sound and Ambient Light Patterns
Tenori-On is great LED based novel personal digital instrument for playing sound and ambient light patterns developed by Toshio Iwai.
It is operated by touching 16×16 LED switches. You could think of them as musical keyboards that respond to the subtlety of your finger touch by emitting light waves, creating afterglow, and making soothing sound sequences. The instrument knows how long and from which direction the player touches each LED switch as well as the tilt angle. ITRON is used as the computational engine that handles complex processing in real time. It has a jog dial, LCD display, hi-quality stereo speakers, and four function switches in the frame. On the back side of the device are additional 16×16 LEDs that allow audience to see the light patterns as well. Multiple TENORI-ON devices can be connected for collaborative sessions and exchanging songs.
Interface:
The Instrument contains acceleration sensors. The software can calculate direction of finger movement.
It has two built in speakers, a clear button, 12 function buttons on the outside. Small LCD display. Volume control and headphone output. The 16×16 LED matrix on the rear side acts a display only (not input).
Multi-user:
Tenori-On uses the Midi protocol and can communicate with other Tenori-On, synchronizing them. Remote mode allows you to control Tenori-On from a PC or another Midi instrument.
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