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Toshiba OLED Video Wallpaper Powered By SF
Toshiba has been working on what science fiction writers call video wallpaper - a thin covering for large walls that could be used for illumination and color scheme (at a minimum) and full-wall, full-motion video at the far end of the scale.
"OLED is anticipated to become an important light-emitting device for the next generation," Toshiba said in a statement.
The problem that the scientists have had to overcome is increasing the efficiency of existing OLED devices, such as televisions that use the reduced-energy material. To achieve that, the wallpaper uses light that has been redirected by an ultra-fine grating that is fabricated by self-assembled nano particles, said Kaori Hiraki, a Toshiba spokesman.
Toshiba's work is still in the research phase; Toshiba says it is years away from a commercial product.
The first direct use of this idea that I know about is the video wallpaper from the 1999 novel A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge. Another example is the smart wallpaper from the 2003 novel Oryx and Crake by Margret Atwood.
Take a look at some of these other real-life efforts to make video wallpaper a viable commercial product:
From Telegraph.
The breakthrough in wall coverings is the result of improvements in organic electroluminscence (OLED) screen technology, according to Toshiba, that enables the paper to emit light.
- Shinoda Plasma Video Wallpaper
- Roll-to-Roll Processing OLEDs And Video Wallpaper
- Digital Daewoo Folding Screen DID-FS
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