Color OLEDs
Color OLED computer peripherals are on the market. This website has a few items for sale including the Optimus keyboard with OLEDs built into each key. This allows for the keys to be changed to any format you wish; enable your keyboard with buttons for Quake, Russian, or surfing the web.
OLED is short for organic light emitting diode. By embedding certain organic compounds into a plastic substrate and exciting the compound with electricity it is possible to reproduce images, in other words create a screen. One major advantage of OLED is that they do not require a backlight as LED screens do because the backlight is built into the pixel. Without the need for a light source it is possible to use a flexible plastic backing to hold the OLEDs together. This will make it possible to create screens on just about any surface. I personally can't wait to have a computer screen glued to the side of my car instead of paint.
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On February 22nd, 2007 G Kontos says:
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Honestly, I was a little surprised to hear that color OLEDs even existed. Here's a selection of OLED displays from One Stop Displays.
Optimus not for sale
They isn't a working version of the Optimus yet, the first version of it reportedly will use monochromatic OLEDs and probably cost most countries GDP for the year. There is the "Optimus mini" which is a 3 button (2cm x 2cm buttons) OLED device and it costs about $160 USD.