The BMW Museum in Munich, Germany, is now hosting Osram's Dandelion OLED installation - with its 1000 OLED panels. The Dandelion was first unveiled this installation at the L+B 2012 conference back in April. Osram has lent this to BMW until the end of January 2013. It's possible to buy such an installation from Osram, for about €150,000.

Just a few days ago Osram showed a beautiful automobile rearlight prototype based on OLED Lighting panels. Maybe BMW will return Osram's favor and come up with a new model that uses OLED lighting...

Nanosys announced it has raised $15 million (this is the company's sixth financing round) - to expand its QDEF production capacity. Nanosys says that response from manufacturers has been great and demand for their QDEF film (which improves the color performance and efficiency of LCD displays) has grown - so much they will now expand their capacity tenfold, which will make them the largest quantum dot producer in the world.

QDEF films are drop-in films that are placed on a phosphor-less gallium nitride LED backlight. They act like a phosphor - absorbing the blue light from the LED and producing red and green light, which is then combined with the original blue light to generate a high-quality white light. They say that a QDEF-powered BLU is more efficient, too. Back in June I visited Nanosys' booth at SID 2012, you can read more about this interesting technology here.