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Optimus Maximus OLED Keyboard Review
The test lab at our review partner Digital Trends tested the expensive OLED keyboard from Art Lebedev, the Optimus Maximus. The unique keyboard did not fair too well in this review with negative points that include high price, poor typing ergonomics and questionable long-term reliability.
Quote from the review: "Thanks to a glowing array of 115 individual OLED displays fitted under its keys, Art Lebedev's Optimus Maximus is the first and only keyboard that literally morphs before your eyes.
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Posted on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Sony may offer OLED TVs in Europe in 2009: Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp plans to sell ultra-thin television based on organic
light-emitting diode technology as early as in 2009 in Europe, the world's
largest flat TV market, the Nikkei business daily said on Wednesday.
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Posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:18:03 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Interview with Densitron about 7-inch AMOLED Panels
OLED-Info published an interview with OLED reseller Densitron. Densitron says that they hope to begin selling 7" AMOLED panels, by the end of August.
The largest panels available in volume today are about 3" in size. The 11 inch OLED TV from Sony is not really a mass market product and does not count here.
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Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Celine our new Video Host explains Optimus Maximus OLED Keyboard
For a couple of weeks we have featured daily gadget videos powered by our partner Wannahaves from the Netherlands. Today we would like to introduce the new host: the lovely Celine. Watch her first gadget video report featuring the cool Optimus Maximus OLED Keyboard.
Watch the Video Report now.
(do not miss Celine's super cute accent.)
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Posted on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:56:03 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Sony ''awfully close'' to selling a 27-inch OLED TV
Sony is currently selling an 11 inch OLED TV (XEL-1) for about $2,500. This TV is more like an expensive executive desk decoration than a home entertainment product. Sony's COO Stan Glasgow said this week at a dinner event in San Francisco that Sony is "awfully close" to selling a 27" OLED TV.
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Posted on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 02:44:06 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Samsung SDI to invest $529 million to up OLED Output
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean display maker Samsung SDI Co said on Monday it
would boost production of next-generation organic displays to six times the
current level by mid-2009, spending $529 million.
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Posted on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:47:46 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Japanese Students schooled with Nintendo
By Dan Sloan
TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo is banned everywhere but the classroom at Tokyo Joshi
Gakuen school in Japan as the ubiquitous DS consoles become the latest tool in
English instruction.
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Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:34:32 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Matsushita has no concrete OLED TV Plans
On Tuesday a report appeared on Reuters that Matsushita plans to release 37 inch OLED TVs in 3 years. A new report on Tech-On says now that Matsushita (soon to be named Panasonic) has no concrete plans on commercializing OLED TVs.
The company is only advancing their OLED technology at this point. The research and development of the Panasonic OLED technology is done at their OLED production at IPS Alpha's Himeji Plant.
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Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:21:19 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Matsushita seen sizing up OLED TV market
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co is finalizing plans
to mass-produce 37-inch organic light-emitting diode TVs in three years, aiming
to overtake rivals in the next-generation flat-TV race, the Sankei Shimbun daily
reported on Tuesday.
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Posted on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Matsushita to produce 37 inch OLED TVs in 3 years
Matsushita plans to mass produce 37 inch OLED TVs in three years.
Matsushita is supposed to be the first company to achieve the ability to mass produce 37 inch OLED panels by then.
The report about Matsushita's OLED plans are from the Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun and not confirmed officially.
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Posted on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:16:47 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Spray-On Solar-powered OLED Displays
This is one of the coolest future products I have heard about in a while: A spray-on OLED display that is self-powered through solar energy.
Japanese Mitsubishi Chemicals and Sumitomo Chemical work on spreadable electronics. The molecular soup would have OLED and Solar cell building blocks that could be spread or even sprayed ultra-thin onto walls or gadgets.
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Posted on Fri, 16 May 2008 01:51:48 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
ThinkGeek sells Optimus Maximus OLED Keyboard
Gadget shop ThinkGeek now offers the Optimus Maximus OLED Keyboard by Artlebedev.
After years in the making the OLED keyboard started shipping in February. ThinkGeek offers it at a still rather high price of $1,589.99. The Optimus Maximus is sure one of the most expensive, if not the most expensive keyboard you can buy.
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Posted on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:05:34 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Interview with Fast2Light about flexible OLED Lighting Technology
OLED-Info published an interview with Fast2Light's project manager Mary M. Kilitziraki. Fast2Light is an R&D setup that researches and develops light emitting foils based on OLED technology.
Quote: "There are a few milestones to be achieved before OLED makes it to the lighting market; a very important one is the performance and lifetime of the light emitting material.
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Posted on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
NAB 2008: Sony HDVF-EL100 OLED Viewfinder
Sony is unveiling its first color professional camera viewfinder based on Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) technology at the NAB 2008.
The 11-inch (viewable area, measured diagonally) HDVF-EL100 model is Sony’s first non-consumer application of an OLED panel. Sony has been selling the XEL-1 OLED TV since last year.
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Posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:58:04 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
LN2 Cooled Galaxy 9600 GT Breaks World 3D Records
MadShrimps published a detailed report about one of their crazy overclocking experiments. This time they push a Galaxy 9600 GT to its limits.
Quote: "Madshrimps cooperating with Belgium's finest overclockers pay offs, in this article we detail the efforts of two OCTB crew members as they push a Galaxy 9600 GT past its limits using LN2.
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Posted on Sat, 5 Apr 2008 20:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Kodak signs OLED Cross-License Agreement With LG Display
Eastman Kodak Company, a pioneer in organic light emitting diode technology (OLED), today announced an intellectual property cross-licensing agreement with LG Display Co., Ltd., of Korea.
The license, which is royalty bearing to Kodak, enables LG Display to use Kodak technology, including yield-improving capabilities for Active Matrix OLED (AMOLED) modules, in a variety of small to medium size display applications such as mobile phones, portable media players, picture frames, and small TVs. The agreement also enables LG Display to purchase Kodak's patented OLED materials for use in manufacturing displays. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
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Posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:23:13 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Video of Optimus Maximus OLED Keyboard
We reported yesterday that the long, long awaited OLED keyboard Optimus Maximus from artlebedev is finally shipping. Engadget got their hands on one with the full 113 OLED Keys (price: $1,564.72).
Engadget published a video showing the OLED keyboard in action and also the new software to customize the layout and icons.
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Posted on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:21:59 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Optimus Maximus OLED Keyboard ships
In 2005 Russian design studio Artlebedev sparked huge interest for their OLED PC keyboard design. Three years later the OLED keyboard is shipping to the first customers who ordered in 2007.
We stopped reporting about the OLED keyboard a long time ago as delays just followed delays. Now the OLED keyboard is real, but the price is just not attractive. Artlebedev offers 4 configurations, 3 of them can be pre ordered right now.
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Posted on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
LG AMOLED Phone LG-SH150A
LG releases the LG-SH150A mobile phone with an AMOLED screen.
The AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode) screen is offering a crisper image and 1,000 times faster response time compared to existing TFT-LCD mobile screens.
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Posted on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:45:33 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Sony OLED TV XEL-1 at CES 2008
Sony announces the availability of the 11 inch OLED TV XEL-1 in the United States at the CES 2008.
The 11-inch (measured diagonally) XEL-1 model is just about 3 millimeters thin and offers picture quality with extremely high contrast, outstanding brightness, exceptional color reproduction, and a rapid response time.
We have been at the Sony CES conference and took a couple photos of the future of television that is currently only 11 inch in size, but Sony also shows a 27 inch OLED TV at the CES 2008.
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Posted on Mon, 7 Jan 2008 01:32:41 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
CES 2008: OLED Pocket Photo Album by Digital Foci
Besides large 15 inch photo frames Digital Foci will also show a tiny OLED keychain photoviewer at the CES 2008.
The Pocket Album OLED 1.5 is a digital keychain photoframe with a 1.5-inch screen holding 120 photos.
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Posted on Sat, 5 Jan 2008 08:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
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