China's Visionox has won the "2009 Electronics, Electronic Information Science and Technology Award" by the Chinese Institute of Electronics. Visionox are working on hybrid OLEDs (which combine organic and inorganic materials), and has started building China's first OLED mass-production line that will output more than 12 million 1" OLED displays annually. In 2-3 years, Visionox plans to develop 2.4" to 17" AMOLEDs.

Visionox OLED photo frame Prototype

In October 2009, Visionox has shown us some OLED lighting and displays prototypes.

Novaled
and Willing are showing a new OLED emergency light. The size is 3cm by 10cm, and it's only a few millimeters thick. They say that while it reaches all the standard and regulations that are required, it's still too expensive to be sold commercially.

It's exactly one year since Kenwood has unveiled similar OLED emergency lights that also double as speakers.

GE and Konica Minolta is showing new lamps which use flexible white OLEDs. There are several "configurations" (or designs, really) which include desk lamps and ceiling lamps.We do not have any technical details on those panels yet.

Update: We have found photos of the new lamps, see below

Last week we reported that Ingo Maurer will soon show two new OLED designs using transparent panels from Novaled, and today we have some more information and photos of the lamps. The lamps will use OLEDs made on glass substrates that are transparent when in the off state.

The first lamp is called Flying Future, which uses 90 "Wing" OLEDs with an active area of 30 cm². The second lamp is "4 x 4 is 34" which includes four "Quadro" (100 cm²) light elements that the user can play with. Here are photos of the lamps, thanks to the anonymous commenter:

Flying Future

The Samsung HZ35W camera (with the 3" AMOLED displays and built-in GPS) is now shipping for $378. The camera has Geo-tagging capabilities, a 12mp sensor, 15x optical zoom and can record 720p HD video.

Samsung HZ35W

The HZ35W is now shipping for $378 in the US. In the UK it's selling for £299.99 (and it's called WB650).

The latest company that will soon be showing OLED Lighting panels is Panasonic Electric Works (PEW). They will show a square panel at the Light+Building 2010 exhibition in Germany next week, and also in the Milano Salone exhibition in Italy.

We don't have any technical information (efficiency, brightness, size) about the panels, hopefully they'll disclose more during the exhibitions.

Just a day after announcing their OLED TV in the UK, LG are doing the same in France. There's no price or release date, but the EL9500 15" OLED TV appears in LG's official french site.

LGE 15EL9500

So: Korea, Austia, UK and France. When will it come to the US?

India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has announced a new $10 million project to develop LED and OLED lighting, with first versions of LEDs expected by March 2012. The LED chips will be packaged with phosphor coating and converted into white LED. The target for luminous efficacy of the LED chip is 25-50 lumens/watt.

After they finish the R&D phases, they plan to transfer the technology to an Indian LED chip maker and LED packaging companies.

LEDON is showing their first OLED lighting modules prototypes. There are two series, the LUREON and the LUCEOS. The LUREON consists on rectangular OLED modules, fabricated in cooperation with the Fraunhofer IPMS, with element dimensions of 100x100 and 100x50 mm², which can be easily combined to large area lighting by an
integrated electrical bus system. The LUCEOS module series offers a hexagonal
module system based on Osram's ORBEOS CDW-031 OLEDs.

LEDON OLED Lighting modules photo

LEDON say that the modules include an electrical and data bus system for maximum flexibility in large areas. The system bus can be configured to support DALI or DMX bus systems and allows the simple and robust connection between the different sub elements.

LEDON OLED Lighting was created back in 2009 as a joint-venture between the Fraunhofer Institute and Zumtobel.

Even though the EL9500 15" OLED TV is already shipping for a few weeks in the UK (It costs £1970 , around $3000, by the way), LG has officially announced it today. LG will showcase the OLED TV at the Gadget Show Live this week.