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In 2010 Philips showed a beautiful OLED installation called The OLED Wall, made from lot's of small lumiblade OLED panels, which featured a mirror-like visualization using a camera. Today Philips unveiled the 2nd generation wall, called Lumiblade Living Shapes - which also offers a mirror-like feature, and can also display text information.

The new Living Shapes is made from modular OLED units - each has 16 OLED panels (4x4), and each OLED panel is a 5x5.5 cm in size. The company is showing one version (shown above) that features 72 modules (1,152 OLED tiles in total) - they say it's the world's largest OLED lighting product (but it's not the largest OLED product - Mitsubishi's 6-meter OLED GeoGlobe has 10,362 PMOLED displays!).

Back in April, Philips unveiled a new OLED panel called Lumiblade Plus - which is the world's most efficient panel under production (45lm/w). Back then Philips said that the panel was 'developed by Konica Minolta', but wouldn't say more. Today Konica Minolta issued a press release with some more information: it appears that indeed the materials and structure were developed by KM and the production will be handled by Philips. Production will start in autumn 2011.

While I do not understand the cooperation entirely, after talking to KM it seems that both companies will offer the panel for sale. It's not clear whether Philips will pay royalties for KM on each panel, but it might be so. Philips are already accepting orders for the Lumiblade plus (€120, minimum quantity is 100 units) - but KM says that the panels are not shipping yet. We do not know how many the panels Philips is going to make - but perhaps the agreement with KM was part of the decision to expand Philips' OLED capacity.

American hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas went on stage on Paris on three shows, wearing clothes embroidered with LEDs and OLED lighting panels from Philips. Fergie had a 'leather cat woman' outfit that has 75 white Lumiblade OLED panels. The panels were controlled remotely - and were synchronized to the music and lighting sequences.

Philips' OLED panels (Lumiblades) were the first to be released back in 2009. Philips' panels come in different sizes, shapes and colors, not just white squares. Check out our hands-on review of the Lumiblade OLED lighting panels.

Philips are offering a new OLED lighting kit called 2of3 - which offers quite a saving. The kit includes driver electronics and two large OLEDs (you can choose from the rectangle, dot or square, all in tall version) - and it costs just €180. If you choose two rectangles you save €434!

This is not a limited-time offer. Philips say that it is time to give more people access to this new light source. In fact they told us that what they do is apply the 'volume' price to the engineering samples price. Good on them!

Philips announced that they are investing €40 million ($57 million) to expand their OLED lighting panel production capacity in their Aachen, Germany fab. The additional capacity will be available in 2012.

Philips say that the new capacity will support the "rapid growth" of their OLED business - used for high-end design lighting applications for decorative and ambiance creation purposes. Philips' OLED lighting panels (Lumiblade brand, here's our hands on review) come in several shapes and sizes. Philips developed their own panels and also collaborated with Konica Minolta on the Lumiblade Plus panels which are the world's most efficient OLED panels produced today (45 lm/W).

Philips will be touring Europe to show OLED lighting panels, applications and designs. You'd be able to experience OLED lighting live - with OLED panels, lamps (the Edge) and installations (You Fade To Light). The lumiblade team will be presenting present and future OLED technologies, and OLED experts will also be on hand to provide technical advice.

The EDGE OLED lamp

The 'Lumiblade Exchange' show will be coming on Berlin (June 1-2, in the Soho House, Torstraße 1), London (June 9th in the Shoreditch House, Ebor Street) and Milan (June, detailed info not available yet). Philips also plans to add more cities in Europe and Asia to the tour.

Update: we got some new information regarding Philips and KM cooperation

Philips unveiled their latest OLED lighting panel, the Lumiblade Plus - which is the world's most efficient panel under production (45lm/w). Currently available in one size (Square Tall White - 7x7cm) the panel was developed by Konica Minolta and is produced by Philips, and features full phosphorescent organic materials. The panel is available for €120 (minimum quantity is 100 units though).

Technical details of this new panel:

• Luminous efficacy: 45 lm/W
• Thickness: 1.8 mm
• Lifetime: 10,000 hours
• Luminance: 1,000 cd/m²
• Current/voltage: 71.5 mA / 3.6 V
• Color coordinates (x; y): 0.45 ; 0.41
• Color temperature: 2,800 K

The European OLED100.eu project developed a new OLED lighting panel that is the largest to date: a 33x33cm² panel. The new panel offer 25lm/W at 1000 cd/m² luminance. This relatively good efficiency was achieved using out-coupling and an efficient RGB OLED stack. The panels were fabricated at the Gen-2 line at the Fraunhofer IPMS.

The new panels are based on the on-substrate tiling concept - with 5 segments connected in series. The 33x33cm² panel itself is seamless and so can be tiled to create larger panels. The active area on each panel is 828cm^{2 (}aperture ratio of 76%).

Philips announced a new discounted OLED kit for a limited time. The Lumiblade Special Kit contains 3 white OLEDs (rectangle, dot and square) and the electronics driver. The price is 490€ (instead of 671€ before the discount). The offers starts today and will run until March 10th.

If you're interested in the kit, you can buy online in the Lumiblade shop. Here's our hands-on review of Philips' Lumiblade OLED panels.

Update: The next workshop dates are 23.2, 6.4 and 26.5.

We just got word that Philips will be holding new three-hour long OLED lighting workshops at the Lumiblade Creative Lab in Aachen, Germany. The workshops offer a chance to experience and experiment with Philips' OLED lighting panels, learn about OLED technology today and in the future.

If you want to participate, you can get send an e-mail to Philips (info.lumiblade@philips.com). If you're interested in Philips' OLED panels, be sure to read our hands-on review!