Picture of the Week: OLED TV Debuts at CES

Photo Credit: LG

This 55 inch TV was a show stopper at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last week.  The screen itself is only 4 millimeters thick, making it ideal for an on the wall screen experience. Unfortunately, this requires some of the hardware to be contained in a separate box, and the current price will set you back around $8,000 when the LG releases them for public sale later this year. OLED (organic light-emitting diode) based screens use less power than LED and plasma screens and can have higher resolutions. The individual diode is a semiconductor 200 times thinner than a human hair that emits light when electricity is applied. This technology is so thin, that the screen is actually printed on a single layer of glass using inkjet technology. Scientists and developers are excited for the potential of OLED screens to be printed on flexible surfaces, possibly even clothing, in the future. Because of high cost, these screens are currently most common for small applications like cell phones, but as LG has shown, this technology is on to bigger and better things. If you want more information about OLEDs, check out this great review from How Stuff Works.