Thursday, May 23, 2013

Wearable Touch



Certainly the usual suspects for impressive OLED products did not fail to deliver at this year’s Display Week exhibition, with LG’s OLED TVs and also a whole range of new Samsung Galaxy 4 devices at the show. However, there was also an unexpected exhibitor showing the audience in a very impressive setup what this technology can do.

The Japanese manufacturer Futaba showed various OLED devices that illustrate the broad potential of the technology. One demo showed an OLED watch based on a flexible passive matrix display, which also featured  touch functionality that visitors could try out themselves. But also some transparent PM OLED displays and other flexible display elements were on display and those devices will seemingly go into production in the near future.

Where will those products find their applications?  It seems Futaba is targeting automotive applications first, something that could make a lot of sense especially as the flexibility, transparency and touch features could enable some really interesting new solutions. The low information content of the PM technology should not have strong negative implications in the automotive environment. –Sven Murano






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