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Blackbody unveiled new experimental OLED installations designed by Cibicworkshop (Aldo Cibic and Tommaso Corà). The new collection (called WonderOLED) uses both round and rectangle OLED panels.

WonderOLED includes four installations:

Novaled wants to raise $200 million on the NASDAQ or the NYSE, and today the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released the company's filing, which reveales some interesting details. Novaled is selling its doping materials (produced by BASF), licenses OLED technology and also offers R&D services

First of all, here's a summary of the company's financial statements (all in Euro): in 2009 the company generated revenues of €6.4 million and a loss of €1.3 million, in 2010 revenues of €6.8 million and a loss of €2.3 million and in 2011 €17.4 in revenues and a profit of €1.2 million.

Blackbody is exhibiting in the Maison & Objet conference in Paris, showing their latest OLED chandeliers - including some classics like the Big Bang, and some new ones like the I.Rain by Thierry Gaugain, shown below.

Blackbody says that they have already installed several chandeliers at different places. For example the "Wishing Tree" by Aldo Cibic is installed in the opera Ristori in Verona, Italy, while the Mini Bang is installed in Hotel particulier XVIIIe siècle in Paris.

Blackbody announced their new Smart OLED lamp family back in September 2011, and they kindly sent us a V-LUX OLED desk lamp for a review. The V-LUX is an OLED desk lamp with two long rectangular OLED panels, designed by Bertrand's ID Medas. The V-LUX comes in 4 colors - gray, red, black and white - they sent me the black one.

Each OLED panel is 100 cm² in size, has a color rendering index of 80 and a color temperature of 3200K. The V-LUX consumes 2.8 W and its size is 35 (H) x 25 (W) x 46 (L) cm. The price is €572.

Blackbody just sent us work of a new family of OLED lamps they will start offering soon called Smart OLED. There are seven different lamp designs, some use a single OLED panel and some two. Each OLED panel is 100 cm² in size, has a color rendering index of 80 and a color temperature of 3200K. The power consumption is 2.8 W. The Smart OLEDs will be available soon, starting at 440€.

Blackbody also sent us their new OLED lamps catalog - which includes dozens of lamps in all kinds of shapes and sizes. 

Blackbody is showing some interesting new OLED lighting designs including a flexible red OLED stripe inside what seems to be a glass, an OLED dress and an OLED chandelier:

Blackbody announced a new OLED 'sculpture' -the Samothrace. Blackbody says that this is more than just a lamp - it's a "modern figurehead" - a silver plated monolith that has an OLED lighting-device on top. It has a 154cm2 OLED surface in total and the whole thing is battery operated. Blackbody says that the batteries last for 8 hours (and charge within an hour and a half). Apparently it is available in 'limited edition' - but we do not know the price.

The Samothrace (which was designed by Bertrand Médas from ID’S) will be presented at the "Maison & Objet 2011 salon NOW!" - starting tomorrow - in Paris.

Astron Fiamm has created a new car concept (called Car.Bones) that uses OLED Lighting: headlights, inside-lighting, turn indicators, and more. Alessandro Dolcetta, Astron FIAMM's co-found says that "OLED opens up a new era of by Astron Fiamm products lighting ‘signatures’, and this light-modeling capacity enables us to help our clients and especially car manufacturers to create a endless variety of visual product offers."

Car.bones can be visited from the 2nd October to the 17th October at the Paris Auto show Mondial de l’Auto 2010. More photos of this OLED-Car concept be be seen below:

Blackbody will show new OLED lamp designs at the NOW! Maison & Objet Fair (September 3rd to 7th, 2010). All of the new lamps were designed by C+B Lefebvre. Those lamps are available to buy, but probably cost quite a bit. Here are my two favorites:

The first lamp (shown above) is called 6"O" with an active area of 540cm2, color temperature of 3200 K°, 26W power consumption and it weights 5.5Kg : "Providing both linear and surface illumination, this light bridge creates an enlightened area free of shadows and glare. This virtually tamed lighting offers both direct illumination whilst simultaneously bathing the surrounding area in a halo of soft light.

Blackbody is introducing a new OLED lamp, called MGR. It uses 48 white and 24 red OLEDs. The overall active OLED area is 6.480cm², and the lamp fills a volume of 2.90m x 0.85m x 0.70m. It is actually a chandelier, hung from the ceiling:

The MGR was designed by Bruno Lefebvre. Here's how he describes his design: MGR is an OLED banner, an expression of Blackbody. This new language of light, gives us building blocks to conceive simple or complex, white and colored light compositions. The arrangement in the three axes XYZ of one single module reminds of the L40 iconic masterpiece from the 1920’s, designed by Gerrit Rietveld, functional and cultural origins of the MGR. We have named our creation MGR (Merci Gerrit Rietveld) to thank our fathers, like Gilles Derain and other famous lamp designers did in the past.