Bigger, brighter billboards? Large-surface light-emitting plastic film created

[Panich52]

Bigger, brighter billboards? Large-surface light-emitting plastic film created

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Based on OLED technology and implemented by means of a printing machine, a new method allows for patterned and flexible light-emitting surfaces on advertising displays, info signs and lighting fixtures, for instance. The method also enables transparent smart surfaces to be attached to window panels or packaging.


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I don't find a lot to be happy about w/ this -- bigger, brighter billboards? Ewww

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. It could have residential applications.

Think of it being used on houses for Christmas displays. Hang up some sheets of it tied to a controller, quit worrying about all of those tangled strands of lights. Or create your own 'indoor windows' in windowless rooms by tying it to a camera somewhere.

[Igel]

3. Hogwarts grand hall ceiling effect. n/t

[Warpy]

2. They always use new tech for something lousy first, then explore other possibilities

Just be glad they're not pushing this one as a new weapon.

There's a prototype billboard in coastal Peru that generates potable water from humidity. That is the better billboard and one that California needs to be looking at.