GE Announces OLED Manufacturing Breakthrough

bughunter writes "Today GE announced the successful demonstration of the world's first roll-to-roll manufactured organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting devices (press release). This demonstration is a key step toward making OLEDs and other high-performance organic electronics products at dramatically lower costs than what is possible today. The green crowd is thrilled as well. Personally, as the parent of a 3-year-old technophile, I'm dreading the animated cereal boxes." Now can I get my Optimus Keyboard for less than $1,299?

Re:Our ugly future

[Telvin_3d]

As if having blinking shiney flashey crap on the internet isn't bad enough now we're subjected to it in meatspace.

Except that meatspace has it's own rules. Same way that most of those anonymous internet jerks would never act the same way face to face*. Annoying flashing stuff on a website? Limited stuff you can do about it. Annoying flashing sign in meatspace? 30 seconds with a hammer or wire cutters or even a battery depending on the electrical tolerance and you are good to go. Problem solved.

*Please note. Meatspace has its own brand of assholes. I acknowledge that The two groups are not mutually exclusive.

Re:Organic != 'Green'

[LWATCDR]

Yep my favorite was when I saw Organic Sea Salt....
Right up there when the Video store had Apollo 13 in the SciFi section.

Re:Ok, so how about this idea...

[AvitarX]

<i>you'll either have to buy 'em or deal with the crazed screaming/whining/sulking that will ensue.</i>

That's why my wife won't let me in the cereal isle, and I'm an adult.

Re:Our ugly future

[Anonymous Coward]

"Except that meatspace has it's own rules."

That's right. One of those rules is that we don't abuse apostrophes. IT'S means IT IS. The possessive ITS is *already* possessive so it doesn't need an apostrophe. "*Please note. Meatspace has its own brand of assholes."

Weird. You got it correct there.

Re:Organic != 'Green'

[Bearpaw]

While I'm probably more of a tree-hugger than most Slashdotters, I'm occasionally tempted to start marketing Organic Hemlock Tea ... "The first tea that's guaranteed to reduce your impact on the environment!"

Re:Our ugly future

[Anonymous Coward]

...Because meatspace is all well and good, but it's a good idea to spend some time in greengrocerspace as well.

Re:Ok, so how about this idea...

[Spokehedz]

You obviously haven't gotten out of your parents basement, so we know you haven't gotten laid. Therefore, we know you don't have any kids. As such, you have no idea what its like to be at your wits end in the grocery store with your children.

Let me put it in terms that you would understand.

Imagine that you've stayed up for 4 months straight coding some program--but every time it starts to work, it changes and you have to change your code all over again. Then imagine that every time you tried to sleep, your compile failed and you have to sit up all night making sure that it compiles okay. All the while you are running all over the basement to make sure that none of your other compilers are failing either, and lifting them up and down to change out their power supplies.

Got that? Okay. Good. Now imagine that you just want to go to Microcenter to pick up some more Bawls but your laptop is SCREAMING at the top of it's 2" speakers that it wants Serial-ATA. You know that it doesn't use Serial-ATA, but it is just making all kinds of noise, and shaking. Then other people start to look at you and your laptop making such a cacophony, and your bloodshot eyes just roam over them like they are zombies and you are three seconds away from killing everybody within a 50' radius of you.

Oh, and this happens every single time you go to the store. Like clockwork.

You will cave in. You don't know you will, but trust me--and every other parent out there--you will cave, and buy it whatever it wants to just shut it up.

So Yeah. There is no 'Just don't buy it' crap with kids. Someday, if you ever get out of your parents basement, you will know that.

Re:Animated meatspace

[Anonymous Coward]

How about stacks of comic books, and a fat balding man in his forties yelling at his mom.

Re:Organic != 'Green'

[MadMidnightBomber]

What makes OLED's 'green' is that they don't require back lighting like LCD displays. Which means you can generate images for a fraction of the electrical draw.

Except that it isn't a fraction of the electrical draw---not if they're only 2-3x the efficiency of an incandescent bulb, anyway.

Er, when I studied maths, 1/2 and 1/3 were very much considered to be fractions. Maybe they have since been reclassified as fruit?