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The EU launched a new €11.2-million 3-year project called Flex-o-Fab that aims to help commercialize flexible OLEDs within six years. The project partners will create a a pilot-scale modular yet integrated manufacturing chain for flexible OLEDs, and use it to develop reliable fabrication / production processes.

The Flex-o-Fab project will draw on technologies and expertise already used to produce glass-based OLEDs and flexible displays. It will look to migrate existing sheet-to-sheet processes to roll-to-roll (R2R) production to further reduce costs and enable high-volume production. The encapsulation, one of the key challenges of flexible panel production, will be the multilayer barrier technology developed by Holst Centre. The project will also develop novel anode technologies that will need to be transparent with low resistivity, reliable, robust and scalable for R2R production on foil substrates.

Last week our friend Dietmar Thomas (Philips Lumiblade's spokesperson) hosted a free Webinar (titled "Explore the world of OLED lighting") - updating on Philips' OLED lighting technologies and also answering questions. Philips now uploaded the webinar to the web, you can listen to it here and watch the slides:

Dietmar told us that there so many questions left unanswered, that they will setup a one hour Q&A session on twitter to follow up. It will take place on March 7^th, 17.00h GMT+1. You can send your questions using Twitter, make sure to mark them with this hashtag: #OLEDT01

Update: Philips uploaded the webinar's recording, you can listen to it here.

Our friend Dietmar Thomas (Philips Lumiblade's spokesperson) will host a free Webinar on January 22 (titled "Explore the world of OLED lighting") - during which he'll update on Philips' OLED lighting technologies and will also answer questions.

Remember Philips' LivingShapes interactive OLED mirror? those cool and clever €2,490 devices use 64 (8x8) square OLED panels and infrared sensors that detects the outline of the person looking at the mirror and switches off the OLEDs that are in the field of vision - thus turning it into a mirror. Philips just posted this nice photo showing a London Optician that installed three mirrors in one of his showrooms:

The OLED panels are 42x44.2 mm in size, have a color temperature of 3,000K and have a typical luminance of 1,500 cd/m². The total lumen output when all OLEDs are on is 400 lm.

Earlier this week we posted about Dezeen magazine's Philips' Lumiblade Creative Lab visit. Now Dezeen published a second video, this time focusing on Philips' Moorea lamp. Moorea is designed by Daniel Lorch. It sports two GL350 Lumiblade OLED panels (made by Philips) supported on a sprung-steel stem. Total light output is 240 lm.

Philips are already offering a limited edition lamp, but they also plan a large series release in 2013.

Dezeen magazine visited Philips' Lumiblade Creative Lab and posted a nice story and video showing lot's of OLED installations, lamps and panels, including the interactive mirror, the LivingSculpture modular 3D system, structured OLEDs and the OLED automobile backlight prototype. My friend Dietmar Thomas (Philips OLED unit Communication Specialist) is hosting this video:

Philips is currently offering several OLED lighting panels (we reviewed a couple of them in November 2011). In February 2012 they released an OLED lighting roadmap, according to which we can expect transparent OLEDs in 2013 (the video above shows a prototype transparent panel), and flexible 1x1 meter OLEDs by 2018.

Update: Philips have just lowered the price for the interactive mirror to €2,490. Nice price drop, but it's still extremely expensive...

Philips just announced that the LivingShapes interactive OLED mirror is now shipping - for €2,990 (just over $4,000 - and quite a bit more expensive that the €1,500 they said when they launched it in June). The mirror uses 64 (8x8) square OLED panels and infrared sensors that detects the outline of the person looking at the mirror and switches off the OLEDs that are in the field of vision - thus turning it into a mirror. It's clever and beautiful and quite cool in my opinion...

The OLED panels are 42x44.2 mm in size, have a color temperature of 3,000K and have a typical luminance of 1,500 cd/m². The total lumen output when all OLEDs are on is 400 lm.

Philips is going to reduce its large OLED lighting panel prices. All large OLEDs (whether dot, rectangle or tall) will cost only â‚¬86. This is quite a drop - the large rectangular for example currently costs â‚¬269. If you buy two large OLED panels, you'll get the electronics for free.

Philips is also going to release a new starter kit for its new GL350 functional lighting panel. The kit will include three GL350 panels, one short circuit protection (SCP3001), one Xitanium driver and all the required connector cables. The price will be €400.

Update: Philips told us that the interactive mirror will actually cost only €1,500, and will be available in September. Update 2: The mirror is now available, but for €2,990 - quite more than Philips promised...

After teasing us for almost a month, Philips finally launched their new modular 3D OLED system, the Livingscrulpture 3D. It's a kinetic system based on modular OLED blocks. The rectangular Lumiblade panels are placed on rods that can change their height - thus easily creating 3D surfaces.

The system consists of base plates, each one holding 16 OLED panels (4x4). The OLED themselves are rectangular, 76x76 mm each (including the frame, the active area is 61.4x60.5 mm) and the color temperature is 3,000K. The typical luminance per OLED is about 1,500 cd/m². The base panel size is 316x316 mm.

Philips' booth at the L+B 2012 was apparently quite beautiful. We already posted two videos and lot's of photos showing the various new installations, lamps and panels, but the latest video that Philips sent us is the best one yet I think, and it gives a great view of the new panels and the beautiful spiral chandelier: