The VIP club in Kuala Lampur installed a large Philips LivingScrulpture 3D OLED system - with 1,680 Philips Lumiblade GL26 (Tall Square) panels. The OLEDs are engineered to move in rhythm with the music, meeting the need for dynamic lighting that illuminates well. This huge lighting system was installed by SLT Asia.

SLT actually says that they built the OLED system themselves at an economical price - at quarter the typical cost. So perhaps this isn't an original Philips LivingScrulpture 3D system but something similar developed by SLT.

AU Optronics announced today that it will show new 4.3" flexible AMOLED panels at the Touch Taiwan 2013 conference next week (August 28-30). The new flexible panels are thinner than AUO's previous prototypes at 0.2 mm (vs 0.3 mm before). This is far thinner than LGD's thinnest LCD display announced last week (1.21 mm). AUO's panels use a plastic substrate and thin film encapsulation.

AUO flexible OLED prototype (2011)

AUO will only showcase the company's 5" Full-HD AMOLED panels unveiled earlier in 2013. These panels features the world's highest resolution density at 443 ppi. The company will also show new panels which are 5" 720p (i.e. lower resolution than the FHD ones but at the same size). AUO refers to these as HD720 AMOLED.

LG Electronics announced today that the 55EA9800 55" curved OLED TV is now available in Germany - for €8,999 (just over $12,000). This is cheaper than in the US (where it currently costs $14,999). LG's OLED TV will be sold at select retailers across Germany starting this week. LG says they will roll out the TV in other European markets in the fourth quarter.

LGE didn't say anything regarding its flat panel OLED TV (the 55EM9700), which is currently on sale in Korea (for $10,000) and in the UK.

The EU-funded ManuCloud (distributed Cloud product specification and supply chain manufacturing execution infrastructure) project was successfully completed, and the partners (Fraunhofer COMEDD, Heliatek, Tridonic Dresden and others) presented a demonstrator of a "facade module" which includes OLED lighting and OPV panels. The ManuCloud project envisions a cloud-like architecture concept, providing users with the ability to utilize the manufacturing capabilities of configurable, virtualized production networks.

The objective of the ManuCloud project was the development of a service-oriented IT environment as basis for the next level of manufacturing networks by enabling production-related inter-enterprise integration down to shop floor level. The EU considers the transition from mass production to personalized, customer-oriented and eco-efficient manufacturing to be a promising approach that may improve and secure the competitiveness of the European manufacturing industries.

Last week Samsung launched their KN55S9C Curved OLED TV in the US (available now for $8999) - and they published a short nice video from the launch event. Samsung says their OLED TV offer the industry's best picture quality, and according to CNET, this is absolutely true (although they didn't review LG's curved OLED TV yet):

Researchers from Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University developed a candlelight-style OLED lighting panel - with a low (1900K) color temperature. To create this device they used four organic electrophosphorescent dyes (red, yellow, green, and sky-blue) that create two emissive layers (blue and orange).

The researchers explain that high color temperature can drastically suppress the generation of melatonin (MLT), a naturally occurring hormone (normally produced at night) that is important for the regulation of the body's circadian rhythms. They say that medical experts have called for the development of new lighting sources with low color temperatures, free of blue emission. Currently no electrical lighting device exists with a color temperature below 2000K. The lowest color temperature is around 2500K for incandescent bulbs. A candle has a temperature of 1910K at its brightest spot.

Sony's new 16.5" PVM-1741A professional monitors are now selling for $3,700 at Amazon.com  - that's $600 cheaper than Sony's official US list price of $4,300. The new A Series are an update to their older PVM series, with a new OLED panel (the same one used in Sony's higher end BVM monitors) that offers a wider viewing angle and a reduced color shift (by half, compared to previous models).

The PVM monitors offer Full-HD (1080p) support, 178-degrees viewing angle, 10-bit drivers and a 1W mono speaker. Inputs include two 3G-SDI, HDMI, composite and Ethernet.

A couple of days ago we reported on rumors that Sony will soon unveil the next generation PS Vita which will sport a 6.3" AMOLED display. This isn't confirmed yet, but Sony did lower the price of the current PS Vita. The Wi-Fi model now ships for $199 (down from $249) while the 3G model is $249 (down from $299).

Sony PS Vita

The PS Vita features a 5" touch OLED display (960x544, Samsung made, apparently with green PHOLED), a quad-core ARM Cortex A9 processor and a quad-core PowerVR (SGX543MP4+) GPU (Sony says that it is as powerful as a PS3), Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth and optional 3G. Gaming controls include dual analog sticks, motion controls and a multi-touch pad on the rear side.

According to a new report from Korea, both LG Display and Samsung aim to start producing flexible OLED displays in November 2013. If this is true it probably means that they will not be able to actually ship the final products in 2013. ETNews says that both companies have high hopes for flexible displays, and if market reaction is good they will invest heavily in more production capacity.

Samsung currently has a flexible OLED capacity of about 8000 5.5-Gen sheets, which is about 1-1.5 million 5" panels a month assuming 100% yield. But yields won't be that high and the line is also used for R&D which means that actual production will be a few hundreds of thousands of panels a month. This isn't even enough for a single mass-market smartphone device.

LG Display developed the world's first QHD (2560x1440) AH-IPS LCD panel for smartphones. This 5.5" display is the world's highest resolution mobile display and is features the highest density (538 PPI).

LG says that this is also the world's thinnest mobile LCD at 1.21 mm. They say it's 12% thinner than LG's previous world record announced just last month. Something does not add up as the previous panel was 2.2 mm thick... so maybe the real thickness of this new panel is about 1.9 mm.