SmartWrap Technology to Turn Your Entire Home into a Flat Panel Display

Today there is a fashion of gadgets that are slimmer, brighter and offer more in the same package.

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To improve the technology further the researchers are developing Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs).

OLEDs are produced by applying a small electric charge to a thin layer of Organic compound that can then emit light. The main reason for using OLEDs in the displays is that these pixels are self luminescent and don't require a backlite to make them shine.

But researchers are not stopping just there. They have developed a flexible composite called SmartWrap that is equipped with these OLEDs. Mass production of this technology is still a far fetched dream and will take around five more years.

After five more years we can expect to see a thin flexible and even rollable screens that we can carry around just as today we carry our notebooks.

The most far fetched dream is making OLEDs that can be integrated into the building material to create walls and ceilings that can glow and display moving images. This dream can only be overcome when technologies like SmartWrap can be developed to their full potential. The makers of SmartWrap commented that the technology will be available in the next three to five years.

Currently the researchers are working on organic compounds so that they can reduce the cost of OLEDs.

But I surely see a bright light at the end of the tunnel and my dream of a full house theater should get some shape in the next half decade.

Via: popularmechanics