We’re suckers for these “vision of the future” vids. While there’s nothing quite groundbreaking about The Astonishing Tribe‘s vision (except maybe that 90′s haircuts are back), it’s still fun to see. Oh, transparent OLED! We can’t wait.

If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s Microsoft’s screens and displays of 2019 vision.

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Brazilian designer Dinard da Mata, developed this sleek flexible OLED smartphone concept for Philips called the Fluid. Its long horizontal design enables it to also act as a phone, video game controller, and with the ability to wrap around your wrist, this will be one of the first phones to allow us tech nerds to wear the device like the oh so fashionable snap bracelet.

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While I’ve seen OLED screens withstand this hammer test before (Universal Display beat Samsung to the smash on this one) this is more remarkable to me because it’s the best quality flexible video I’ve seen yet (at :24 seconds it starts getting real sexy.) Though it’s good to know I can safely watch TV while kickboxing. Via: Tom’s Hardware

Premiered at Ceatec 2009, Mitsubishi’s 155″ Diamond-Vision TV is made up of numerous OLED panels. These panels can be connected to form a TV of any size and also, can be curved around a building. LED digital billboards and displays have already been using this concept for years so it isn’t a huge breakthrough for OLED but it does show progress.

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-Andrew

via NetworkWorld.tv

As seen in our Behind the Scenes video of our Living Magazine Cover and Spread, this could very well be an early prototype of the technology that could allow this. Included are clips from the keynote speech by Sony CEO Howard Stringer at CES.

This local news story profiling Universal Display Corp. (a leading provider in OLED technology) has some pretty amazing footage and info on some of the UDC flexible OLED prototypes and an interview with our good friend Janice Mahon. Included is a flexible display that can roll out of a pen shaped tube.

Samsung released a 2″ AMOLED display prototype, bended in the shape of an S at SID 2009. More hints of the future possibilities of flexible OLED.

A MIT scientist explains OLED, by passing a current through a pickle. This is entertaining AND informative. A must watch.

via MIT TechTV

We just finished profiling the new Sony XEL-1 11-Inch OLED TV at the Collision Conference on Saturday. When we returned to the studio we were delighted to see the new press release from LG stating that their 15-inch OLED will be released in November to Korea. Mark Wilson from Gizmodo states that the design is “as if vomited up by an engineer and never reassessed,” but I do like how they are hiding the hardware guts in a classic picture frame stand design.

Reuters states “Research firm DisplaySearch expects the market for OLED TV to reach 2.33 million units in 2013 compared with estimated 320,000 units in 2011, according to data provided by LG.” Also LG has stated they are planning to unveil a 40-inch OLED in the future.

Via Gizmodo and Reuters.

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-Andrew

Kodak seems to be making some nice breakthroughs in the OLED Display market now. They have created a flexible underwater prototype that may not seem large to us humans, but in fact, is a HUGE display for lego people! This proves that OLED has the capacity to be safe against moisture. Until now, this was a huge problem for OLED technology. This was posted on one of Kodak’s blogs by Michele Ricks, an OLED Engineer for Kodak.

-Andrew