We wrote about OLEDs a few weeks ago, and now we’ve cut the video of Anil from OLEDs explaining what they’re all about:
I could think of about a million fun things to do with that lighted glass.
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OLEDs: Organic LEDs
Thursday, April 16th, 2009Progress Is Our Most Important Product
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Noah and I went to the Schenectady Museum today, which is technically an area museum, but since 75% of the interesting science in Schenectady is General Electric, they pretty much own the museum. We saw a few rad things, including Edison’s final patent, and a very odd tinfoil spool recording, but the coolest thing is a poster set we found.
Apparently done in a series of over 100 each, these are posters are pretty amazing. They were meant for schools and classrooms, to get kids excited about science.
The most interesting thing about this from a marketing standpoint is that it breaks down all the complicated stuff GE is doing into bite-sized thematic posters, and then has a sensationalist headline.
HEY YOU CAN TOTALLY DO THIS NOW
So what I’m thinking is we could do some experiments with what the imagery would translate into with a more modern style of illustration, add some animation, and make them kind of one-trick interactive – like you could do a feature demo or something really cool, like a one hit minigame.
UPDATE: I have been thinking about it for a few days, and went to a comic store, and bought a ton of books that have inspirational artists that feel like PROGRESS. I have some friends in the industry too. Maybe the thing is we commission a variety of modern artists to do limited posters, and we make them animated/interactive. Obv the internet is for making things accessible not limited, so what makes them special ? I think probably a special kind of immersiveness.
Rolls of Light
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009One of the things we saw at GRC was some of the work around OLED (organic light emitting diode), the coolest of which was this sheet of light (which unfortunately wasn’t lightable today, though you can see it lit from when the team made a Christmas tree out of similar stuff).
We did a fair amount of chatting about what this stuff could be used for. The creative uses are pretty much endless. Might be fun to get some artists or designers or whoever together (all at once or every so often) and film them messing around with the stuff. Maybe it’s a monthly series where we bring someone from a different discipline in and they get some amount of time to make something out of OLEDs?
While we’re on the topic, here’s a little more explanation (includes the line “limited only to the designers imagination”):