It turns out that Philps are also working on transparent OLED lighting. They have published a beautiful image of their protoype:

Transparent OLEDs by Philips

Here are a couple of short OLED videos. The first is a 5 second clip showing an ID card with an oled display, shown at CeBIT 2009. I don't have much info, but this might be another prototype from the Samsung Passport program we heard about back in May 2009. Will the future passports, driver licenses and ID cards will feature such flexible mini displays?

It's a nice clip, anyway, looks a bit like something taken from Harry Potter films...

Several companies are exhibiting new OLED lighting panels at the Lighting Fair 2009, in Tokyo.

Japan's Research Institute for Organic Electronics (RIOE) showed an OLED panel with 5,000cd/m2 luminance and only 15W power consumption (that's 15lm/W, like a incandescent bulb). They also showed a transparent OLED window (70% transparent).

RIOE transparent OLED window

Lumiotec, the Japanese joint-venture, had 1.9mm thick OLED panels on show. They actually plan to start making samples of those devices by fall 2009. 

Lumiotec thin OLED panel

Panasonic actually displayed an even thinner panel - only 1mm. They think that OLED lighting will be ready within 2 years, but it will take much longer (10 years) for it to be used main lighting.

Panasonic OLED lighting panel

Philips exhibited their Lumiblade OLED panels. They recently built a new plant in Aachen, Germany, to make those panels.  

Philips Lumiblade OLED panel prototype

Back in January we first heard of the EDAG 'light-car' concept. The car (which they call Light-Car-Open-Source, or LC-OS) will have OLED taillights, 'body' lights and also an OLED dashboard. The idea is that everything is configurable - you can change the look of the car and your dashboard (just like you can change your desktop), and also display custom 'signs' on the rear window.

EDAG light car prototype

Today EDAG showed another prototype, in the motor show at Geneva. They don't actually plan to produce this car, but to share their technology and concept with car makers.

ASUS' CEO said that they are considering an OLED display for the next generation Eee computers.

Today's Eee devices come in 7", 9" and 10" displays sizes. I'm guessing that they will start with the smaller screen sizes for the OLED displays. Just last month we published an OLED-in-laptop poll, and it seems that people are willing to pay extra for an OLED display (and to gain quality, thinness and battery life).

This will not be the first PC to sport an OLED, that honour goes to the OQO Model 02+, but the display on that computer is only 5". 

The nice chaps at the OLED100.eu project sent me this nice EuroNews video, explaining OLED lighting and the OLED100.eu project. It includes some nice ideas on flexible or transparent OLED lighting.

I really liked the OLED chess set featured in this film. Also the futuristic OLED kitchen has some nice ideas.