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World's First OLED Christmas Tree is Very Dorky
Eco Geek Latest —
Yes, the OLED lighting team at GE did print out a glowing, ultra-efficient Christmas tree...and yes, they did put a clip of it on YouTube.
GE's OLED project is generally thought to be ahead of the curve on manufacturing. They can already print OLEDs inexpensively from roll to roll. However, it's harder for them to produce pure white light with the manufacturing process. They've refined that a lot in the last few months, but a Christmas tree was just the perfect idea for what to do with their old, green OLEDs.
Cute.
GE Unrolls 15-Foot Flexible OLED Christmas Tree Scroll [O (LED) Tannenbaum]
Gizmodo —
Move over, Rockefeller Center: even though that's where Jack Donaghy calls home, his homeboys at GE's OLED research labs in Niskayuna upsate are gunning for Xmas tree fame with the first-ever flexible OLED tree. The tree is rolled up from a 15-foot by 6-inch scroll of OLED panels lit green. Since I'm kind of scared at the scruffy mountain men types that tend to descend on NYC as part of the migratory holiday Balsam Fir Trade, this might just be what I need for my apartment. [GE Press Release]
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OLED Christmas tree: festive and efficient
CrunchGear —
Among the landmarks for OLED development, making a Christmas tree out of them probably isn’t high on a lot of researchers’ lists of priorities. Still, it’s a good demonstration of luminance and a very timely proof of GE’s inroads on OLED technology. With all the work ...
Oh come OLED us adore him
Tech Digest —
Headline with bad pun - check. Novelty gadget - check. Silly video - check. Energy efficiency - check. This is tech blog gold! It's an OLED Christmas tree, created by the lovely chaps (and they seem to be exclusively chaps) who work at the GE OLED labs. This video hurt me. Hurt me because now I know that the people who I'm counting on to build me an affordable OLED TV are spending their time making Christmas trees, rather than solving the problem of how to make OLED displays very cheap. Damn their eyes! GE OLED ...
Traditional Christmas Tree Alternitives
Core77 —
xmasTREEa.jpg Considering the season, the blogosphere has unveiled some interesting non-pine Christmas trees. Over at walyou they have collected a bunch; here are our favorites. From the top: Make provides the circuit diagram to create your own mini LED tree. Next is a tree from Tech Blog made of 70 hard drives. Followed by Neatorama 's dorm room bookshelf tree arrangement. And if you're not stacking books in your dorm room head to the Frat house to get drunk via their tree. And at the bottom, from Slash Gear , a team of GE engineers and scientists express their spirit towards their new roll-to-roll OLED ...
