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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