a bright idea: philips lets flat lights out of lab - led display panel

AACHEN, Germany-one day, our ceilings and walls may emit light, illuminating the interior space as brightly and evenly as natural light.
While this possibility has been around for years, Philips, a Dutch electronics company, is allowing people to patch up technologies that can do so.
The world's largest lighting manufacturer has started sellingit-
You use your own glowing wafer Kit called "Lumiblades ".
"For anyone who wants to pay nearly $100 per square inch, they are all red, white, blue or green.
This is the first time that people outside the research lab have the opportunity to come into contact with lights made of organic LEDs or oled.
The company's goal is to get designers, architects and other creative people to think about how to use these flatlights and start working together to develop early-stage products.
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Siemens and Royal Philips Electronics, which is developing oled, believe that the technology will eventually be more efficient and energy-efficient than traditional incandescent lamps.
Save on compact fluorescent lamps and even LED lights that have just entered the market.
Oled has a key advantage: they glow evenly from the entire surface, not from a single point.
In this way, the lampshade and other covering objects are no longer needed to disperse the light and protect the eyes from strong light.
From an engineering point of view, creating light and then coloring immediately is an inefficient way of doing things.
At the moment, Lumiblades is just a small flat light-
Interested in yourself.
"We believe that OLED has a lot to offer in terms of design, beauty and lighting effects," said Dietrich Bertram, who is responsible for Philips's OLED business in Aachen, just across the border from the Philippines's home country, the Netherlands.
The company said it has sold more than 100 of its products since Philips began offering the Lumiblades kit in April.
Buyers mostly use them for prototyping and plan to order more custom oled when ready to go into production.
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Based on the artist, an art installation called "You Fade Out the Light" was made using 1,024 Lumiblades.
"This is 2 when people walk through the structure. 7 meters (9 feet)wide by 1. 3 meters (4. 25 feet)
High, the camera and computer turn off the lights on the opposite panel of passers-
Imitating their movements is like a huge monitor.
"After working with oled, I think it's more of a material than a light source," said Hannes Kochs, one of the installation designers.
The diffuse light projected by OLED panels makes them "amazing, completely different from other types of light," he said ".
Lumiblades from about 70 euros ($100)
500 euros in a small square ($700)
Something the size of a mobile phone.
The bigger a piece, the brighter it will be.
When turned off, Lumiblades are similar to small mirrors with an aluminum backing inside the two glass plates.
After opening, a layer of organic material inside begins to glow, and Lumiblade will glow.
Only the faintest feeling of warmth.
The technology is still in its early stages.
Philips did not try to win prizes for the presentation of the kits, which are sold online and come with only one simple wire. (
Lumiblades must be plugged in despite the battery-
Electric oled is possible. )
"All the content of this experience kit is engineering samples that do not meet existing lighting and safety specifications," said a manual in the box . ".
The company recommends the purchase of an additional 70 euro converter box and dimmer to ensure that users do not "overdrive" their panels.
Oled does not have a light bulb to blow, but turning on the juice will burn the lamp brighter and wear it faster.
When used at the recommended current, the lights in the kit are designed to last 10,000 hours, at which point they fade to half the original brightness.
In contrast, the life of incandescent lamps is 1,000 hours, roughly the same as the compact fluorescent lamps currently produced.
The company says it sees interest in artists, architects, jewelers and some industrial applications that even require lighting.
In addition, Philips and other companies are working with automakers to use oled in display panels because their lightness and coolness are valuable. TVs with OLED-
Display-based also began to appear.
Philips finally hopes to bring transparent window glass in the daytime and luminous in the evening to the market.
Similarly, GE is developing a cheap flexible oled packaged in plastic that envisions a light, roll-able-
Blind launch window.
Bertram said his personal dream has been the same since he started researching oled years ago: "I really want to see the sun rising on the ceiling, even if it's dark and rainy outside