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A glimpse into the future of lighting

Anil Duggal
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Hi folks. One of the questions I am most often asked about OLEDs is the potential product applications. What are they going to look like as a lighting product? Well, if you want a glimpse into the future of OLED lighting, check out this video our Lighting team put together. It’s pretty cool and really shows some of the exciting lighting applications OLEDs could make possible. Enjoy!

July 29th, 2008 | Advanced Technologies, Lighting

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Very interesting stuff. As I strongly feel our cities are over-illuminated, causing the night sky to disappear in an orange haze from sodium lights, I wonder if there might be applications for OLEDs (as well as LEDs) that might suffice as replacements. Replacements that could provide the safety and security we need from street lighting without flooding the ambiance.

At the very least GE might consider the killer combo of a solar-powered OLED street lamp. The sun charges a battery inside the pole during the day, the battery then powers the OLED panel at night. Ought to save a kilowatt or two, no?

James | 7/29/08, 11:21 PM

Let me see this stuff

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OLEDs Are The Future Of Lighting | Misc | DeviceInn | 7/30/08, 10:41 AM

As a migraine sufferer, I can’t wait to see the end of fluorescent lighting. OLEDs can’t possibly come soon enough, as far as I’m concerned.

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OLED, le futur de l’éclairage « muuuz | 7/31/08, 12:10 AM

Can we hope that future Olympics pools like in the picture on next link http://www.ge.com/company/advertising/ads/print/chinese_elements_lighting_lg.jpg will be illuminated by OLED?

Gheorghe Curelet-Balan | 8/14/08, 8:37 AM

japenese invented blue LEDs 1996, GE blocked them from entering America with cheap ultra long lasting lighting.

In reality they waited tell protection ran out and they could invent a 2nd product based on the same tech.

in reality 20 years ago this tech was possible. I’ve had wall lighting imporated from asia for the last 10 years; made from LEDs like for a laptop.

All they are doing is re-inventing the wheel to sell it in a protected market.

lol | 10/10/08, 2:51 PM

Unlike the person before me, I do not believe there is a conspiracy. OK I really like this idea. Just think you can have your whole ceiling made of OLED and you can turn on all or part of it depending on your lighting needs. Send me a panel and I will test it out. GOOD JOB GE.

Ricky J Warden | 10/11/08, 9:49 AM

as for adapting to business environment — think of all those acoustical tile ceilings w/ florescent inserts.

create direct size replacement panels for the inserts — or go it one better. Make the front plastic “fuzzy” so it deadens reflected sound and then the whole ceiling could softly glowing OLED panels all daisy chained electrically off the few panels that replaced the original florescent inserts.

renman | 10/11/08, 10:03 AM

does anyone know if they are home testing these OLED’s?

ZIGGY | 10/11/08, 3:42 PM

Please hurry and bring OLED to ‘Main Street’! I think that in today’s energy & green counciousness, that the concerns of your marketeering types, who fear that they will not be able to crash into the old tech market, are totally unfounded. BRING ‘EM ON !!!

Randell Gray | 10/12/08, 3:16 PM

[...] If you haven’t seen these organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, no doubt 2009 will be illuminating. OLEDs are already beginning to be used in TVs and cell-phone displays, and big names like Siemens and Philips are exploring the technology to make it a lighting source as well. The OLED printer was made by General Electric. (Check out GE’s video about OLEDs here:) [...]

Innovationedge » Blog Archive » The future of light | 10/12/08, 10:16 PM

I am a graduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in the Design for Emerging Technologies program. I am currently involved in a research project called the GFRY Studio that is working on new ways to reduce energy consumption. Is there any way to acquire product sample for design applications as of yet?

Bo Rodda | 11/19/08, 4:31 PM

I am an Industrial Designer at Levolor and we would be very interested in making some of these applications. Who can we contact?

This is such an exciting development. I would imagine the medical industry would appreciate the ability to better light their work. And the safety implications could be huge as well. Automobiles would be safer by being easier to see with bands of this stuff integrated into panels. Whole products could light up when being used improperly. Instead of instructions components could light them selves in order of operation. A very small innovation would be never having to pull out a fuse to see if it is blown.
Wayfinding would be absolutely revolutionized.

Very exciting stuff! …need any industrial designers?

Ryan Bishop | 11/25/08, 11:04 AM

Wow, this is awesome…

By when can we expect GE-OLEDS in market?

Kalyan | 12/11/08, 11:22 PM

“OLEDs are the future.” This is the term I used to find this blog. There is no new technology that I have seen thus far in my life that I feel is bringing us any closer to a William Gibson cyberpunk future than OLED.
Video screens printed onto clothing? yes please.
Home lighting elements that could double as a computer screen or a public address system? I’ll take two.
All companies currently working on this technology give me a huge amount of hope that I will live to see it.

Chuck Chuck Razool | 12/24/08, 7:02 PM

Hello, I have an idea for the future in lights.
I just finished a class in Phoenic University College on line and we studied the environment. One of the topics was on conserving energy, and well I had mentioned an idea for saving energy during the holidays. So, I thought of trying to get in touch with GE. I really don’t know how though so I figure I would try here. I really don’t want to discuss it in here of my idea, I’m sure you understand why. So please get back to me on this, it might be worth it for us both. Thank-you Elizabeth James

Elizabeth James | 1/12/10, 3:57 PM