Did you know McDonalds was going to become, or Microsoft was going to become, or QVC was going to become the household names they did?  How could you have known they were destined to be staples of the American economy? Everyone has hind sight but few have foresight. If only I had a way or someone to direct me on how to identify a unique growth business poised to dominate a mass market. I don’t have a crystal ball but I can tell you to read and you may start to get the picture of the future.

Steve Squires is HGUE/Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc.’s CEO. This is his take on the future of Quantum Dots & Solar power from Quantum Dots, look at the Oct. issue, pages 56, 57 & 58   http://www.interpv.net/ebook/ebook_03.asp

What he doesn’t tell you is there is a lot more potential from Medical http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=43821676, Waste Heat Recovery (Could be as big as solar) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=43767056, Biotechnology, Semiconductor http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401102946.htm, Optoelectronics, Military and Aerospace research fields and finally, OLED/LED’s http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayRe…5066582&EDATE= . What was that about identifying a unique growth business poised to dominate a mass market?

This was my take months ago  and still is,  HGUE is to be a global play that will pay: 

http://solterra1.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/hgue-re-inventing-solar-with-solterra-renewable-technologies/

Helping the environment stay green and clean for our children through innovative science!

Apple keeps not saying anything but leeks keep bubbling to the surface regarding a possible tablet PC in the next year.  Now there’s word that there might be an option for an OLED screen along with the less expensive LED versions.  As I’ve said before, while pushing e-literature with one hand while slapping the very unversatile e-readers with the others, I like the idea of being able to download/purchuse digital books but I don’t see a reason why it can’t be done with a fully functional computer.  Leave it to Apple to fill the void.

Considering that the majority of the praise for Amazon’s Kindle device has been for its screen and how closely it resembles the look of actual paper, I have to think that has played into Apple’s apparent courting of an OLED version of its much rumored tablet PC. Personally, a reported cost of $2,200 turns me off entirely but I have a feeling that I wouldn’t exactly be Apple’s target audience for such a product. But a nice multi-functional tablet PC for $500? I’m in. Even if I don’t download the latest STephen King novel to it, I’d be happy with something that I could use either as a notepad or (hopefully) hook a keyboard up to and use as a regular computer. I’m very much of the word processor/internet box computer buyer segment of society – video/photo/music editing has never been a hobby of mine – so a lack of processor power isn’t a big deal to me. Also wouldn’t mind the ability to hook the tablet up to my television or a regular computer monitor if the screen proves to be too small to use as a monitor in and of itself.

Also of note from the article, Conde Nast is said to be preparing a host of magazines under its publishing umbrella for download to tablet PCs. for those who don’t want to follow the link, among Conde Nast’s publications are Vanity Fair, Wired, Vogue, GQ, W and The New Yorker.

While I’ve been watching developments in OLED, surface computing and 3D screens with interest over the last few years. Sony now appear to be making significant steps forward in interactive digital screen technology. While some mobile phones already use touch screens and thin (TFT) screens. I’m looking forward to seeing more business and consumer products feature touch screen technololgy and flexible screens very soon.

Find out about their new OLED screen technology: HERE

Monitores CRT (Cathode Ray Tube): Os deste tipo monitores têm sua tela baseada em um tubo. A tela deste tubo é composta por camadas de fósforo, que é atingida por elétrons através de “disparos” feitos por um canhão localizado no início do tubo. Quando o elétron encontra o fósforo, uma luz é gerada naquele ponto, assim, exibindo a imagem.

LCD (Liquid Crystal Display): As telas de LCD são formadas por um material: O cristal líquido. As moléculas desse material são distribuídas entre duas lâminas transparentes polarizadas. Essa polarização é orientada de maneira diferente nas duas laminas, de forma que estas formem eixos polarizadores perpendiculares, como se formassem um ângulo de 90º. Grosso modo, é como se uma lâmina recebesse polarização horizontal, e a outra, polarização vertical.

Plasma: O primeiro monitor de plasma foi desenvolvido em 1964. A vantagem da aplicação de monitores de plasma em informática ate meados da década de 70, uma delas era da inutilização de buffer de dados para a atualização de imagens. Uma tela de plasma é uns dispositivos baseados nos painéis de plasma, que foi aprimorada na ultima década tendo em vista o mercado da televisão de alta definição.

OLED: É uma tecnologia criada pela Kodak em 1980 e promete telas planas e finas, leves baratas que as LCD. São usados nelas diodos orgânicos, compostos por moléculas de carbono que emitem luz ao receberem uma carga elétrica. Multi-Touch: É uma tecnologia de monitores onde o homem pode interagir com a tela com o toque da mão ou do dedo, onde o simultaneamente são interpretados pelo sistema e são executados.

Licht ist zurzeit hoch auf der (Medien-)Agenda. Dabei spielt zurzeit weniger die Sparlampe die Hauptrolle, als vielmehr die neuste Generation der Lichttechnologien. So strahlte am Mittwoch 10vor10 einen – wirklich gut gemachten! – Bericht über LED-Lampen aus. Fairerweise muss man an dieser Stelle nochmals betonen, dass das Potential der LED bei weitem noch nicht ausgeschöpft ist: So darf man in allernächster Zukunft – sprich nächstes Jahr – noch wärmere Lichtfarben, dimmbare Lampenvarianten sowie höhere Wattagen sprich hellere Lampen erwarten. Bis jedoch die vor Kurzem von Philips in den Wettbewerb um den L-Prize geschickte 60 alten Watt entsprechende LED-Lampe (s. nebenstehendes Bild) auf den Markt kommt, wird es noch bis Anfang 2011 dauern.

Was es jetzt schon beim Elektrofachhändler oder z.B. in den Coop Baumärkten zu kaufen gibt, zeigt diese Übersicht: Philips LED-Lampen-Sortiment Herbst 2009.

An der (Technologie-)Tür klopft jedoch schon eine ganz andere, neuartige und viel versprechende Lichttechnologie: die organische Leuchtdiode oder kurz OLED genannt.

Warum organisch? Nun, weil die eigentliche Leuchtschicht aus organischem Material, sprich Kohlenwasserstoff besteht; demgegenüber ist die LED schlicht und einfach ein Halbleiter- resp. ein Computerchip. Setzt man diese – extrem dünne – Schicht bei der OLED unter Strom, beginnt sie zu leuchten. [Wie dünn diese Leuchtschicht ist, zeigt folgender Vergleich: Wenn die Dicke eines OLED-Elements der Höhe des Eiffelturms gleichgesetzt wird, dann ist die Leuchtschicht in denselben Grössendimensionen so dünn wie ein menschliches Haar!]

Im Zusammenhang mit OLED hat Andrea Freiermuth von der Berner Zeitung einen sehr schönen Übersichtsartikel geschrieben. War es bei der LED noch möglich, die Technik in die alte Glühbirnenform ‘hineinzuquetschen’, wird das bei der OLED überhaupt nicht mehr möglich sein: Lampenschirme wie wir sie bis anhin kennen, gehören mit OLED definitiv der Vergangenheit an.

Wer nun denkt, dass OLEDs nur etwas für Captain Kirk’s Kommandobrücke ist, der irrt, gewaltig. Bereits kann man von Philips eine Installation kaufen, die Mirror Wall – zwar nicht im nächsten Coop und zu 9.90 CHF. Momentan kostet der Quadratmeter OLED noch um die 1′000 Euro. Doch gibt es bereits ein europäisches Forschungsprojekt, welche zum Ziel hat, diesen Preis um den Faktor 10 zu senken (OLED100.eu). Zurzeit hat Philips in Sachen OLED die Nase ziemlich vorn. Doch die Konkurrenz schläft nicht. Und Konkurrenz erwächst bei den OLEDs für einmal nicht nur von den klassischen Licht-Mitbewerbern wie Osram oder General Electric. Da tauchen plötzlich Computerfirmen im Markt auf, oder sogar Pharmariesen wie Merck wollen sich erfolgreich in diesem Zukunftsmarkt positionieren. Ganz zu schweigen von den Unternehmen, die von der Bildschirmtechnologie her kommen, wo OLED ebenfalls eine viel versprechende Nachfolgetechnik für LCD-Fernseher zu werden scheint.

Man darf gespannt sein, was aus der OLED-Ecke in nächster Zukunft alles so kommen wird. Von Philips wird es bereits in den kommenden 6 Monaten weitere Produkte geben, die kommerziell verfügbar sein werden. Aber bitte – noch – nicht nach dem Preis fragen…

Die Veröffentlichung des Mac tablet verschiebt sich von März 2010 auf die zweite Jahreshälfte, schreibt DigiTimes aus Taiwan. Der Grund sei der Wechsel einiger Komponenten, Apple habe sich nun zusätzlich für ein 9,7 Zoll-OLED-Display von LG entschieden. Ein Tablet mit 10,6 Zoll TFT-Display plane Apple aber weiterhin, die Quelle von DigiTimes schätzt den Preis auf zwischen 800 und 1000 US-Dollar – die OLED-Ausführung könnte sogar um die 2000 Dollar kosten. Als Hersteller benennt die Quelle Foxconn, Quanta sowie Pegatron Technology, dieses Unternehmen gehört zu Asus und fertigt als OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) sowohl Motherboards als auch Spielekonsolen.

Ungeachtet aller Gerüchte hat sich der Condé Nast-Verlag dazu entschieden, sein Magazin Wired schon mal für das Mac tablet vorzubereiten, egal ob und wann es erscheint. Man spräche aber auch mit Hewlett-Packard, von Apple selbst habe man bisher nichts erfahren, erklärt CEO Chuck Townsend. Wired setzt auf Adobe Air – ob Apple dies unterstützen wird, ist allerdings so unsicher wie ein Coitus Interruptus, auf dem iPhone sucht man Adobes Luftnummer genauso wie Flash vergebens.

Quelle: macnews.de

Ever entertaining—if unreliable—DigiTimes has not one, but two big tablet rumors today. The mythical device (subscription required) has been delayed from early 2010 to the second half of next year, and there will an OLED model. Seriously.

According to anonymous sources inside that the electronics supply chain, Apple (s aapl) changed the launch from March—as opposed to January—to “switch some components” and to add a model with a 9.7″ OLED screen. The OLED model will be manufactured with a display from LG Electronics, as part of a $500 million dollar contract with Apple. That model would be in addition to an LCD tablet with a 10.6″ display.

If making two tablets with different size screens seems a curious decision, the price of the OLED tablet is extreme. According to DigiTimes, a 9.7″ OLED display would cost about $500, and display price is typically a third of total cost, so $1,500 would be the price to manufacture the tablet. Even accounting for cost reductions by next year, the retail price could be as high as $2,000.

That’s probably about right (the price, not the rumor). The Sony XEL-1 TV has an 11″ OLED screen and retails for $2,500, but can be found for as “little” as $1,800. However, even with a subsidy from a wireless provider, there is no way Apple is going to recreate the Cube failure in two-dimensions by selling a tablet in the range of $2,000. Look for an LCD tablet for around $800 early next year.

Again. Rumors. Love. The. Apple. Tablet…
Anyway, rumors say that the Apple Tablet is delayed because of the cost/quantity of the OLED screen.
Comments? Do you think the Apple Tablet is really in the works? I certainly hope so…I want one!

-VC

Forget LCDs. The future is now, with OLED technology making cel phones, computer monitors, and television screens paper thin. OLED, or Organic LED is just on the horizon and will be available soon to tech savvy consumers looking for the next big thing!

The OLED (organic light emitting diode) display trumps the traditional LCDs (liquid crystal displays) in that it does not require a backlight to function. OLEDs display deep black levels, draw less power, and can be much thinner and lighter than an typical LCD display. In addition, at 1,000,000:1 (yes a million to one), OLED displays have a much higher contrast ratio than traditional “dumb old fashioned” LCD monitors.

Initially the prices will be high but as with everything technological, prices will fall as consumer demand increases. Look for OLED technology to hit shelves in full force in 2010-2011. I just love this crap!

It’s official: New TVs sold in California will be more energy efficient in coming years. The hotly debated state energy efficiency standards for televisions — the first of their kind in the nation — have just been approved by the California Energy Commission (hat tip our friends at sister site NewTeeVee). The standards say that new TVs sold in 2011 (58 inches and smaller) need to reduce energy consumption by an average of 33 percent by 2011 and 49 percent by 2013.

Many TV makers have opposed the rules, while the state’s utilities support it. Groups like the Consumer Electronics Association say that the efficiency standards will result in higher prices of TVs in California, closings of stores that sell TVs in California (because those customers will go online or out of state to buy TVs), and unhappy customers who won’t be able to find certain popular TV models in California because they won’t be economic to produce there. The CEA says that the industry has been getting more energy efficient on its own and doesn’t need regulation, which will lead to “decreased industry competition and less innovation.”

But as Amy Westervelt pointed out over on Solve Climate earlier this week, the ruling could lead to a boost in sales in the state for manufacturers that specialize in energy-efficient screens, using LCDs backlit with light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and next generation organic light-emitting diode (OLED). Consumer electronics giants from Sony to LG to Samsung are working on OLED TVs and the technology is supposed to be more widely deployed by 2012 — just in time to meet Cali’s new green TV rule.

Guardate un po’ questa presentazione di un progetto avveniristico per un pc che sta tutto attorno ad un tubo: srotoli, attacchi alla corrente e, usando la tecnologia oled, hai una tastiera touch screen ed uno schermo 17″. Volendo puoi avere uno schermo da 34 pollici con tanto di penna.
Ecco a voi la presentazione!

Thinking maybe you can’t live another day without finally breaking down and purchasing a penscanner? We can sympathize. There are plenty on the market, but the newly hatched DocuPen X Series is mildly more interesting than most out there. They’ve managed to cram 64MB of memory, Bluetooth, a tiny OLED screen and a lithium ion battery all in that tiny package, and if you’re the sunflower seed-eating, alien-hunting type, you probably want one of these for scanning your files at up to 600 dots per inch. DocuPen’s teensy X Series scanners start at $370.

Playboy CEO Says TV Business is Changed “For Good;” company expreiences a $2 million drop in domestic TV revenues, driven by shift to VOD. (paidContent)

RealNetworks Laying Off 4% of Staff; roughly 70 people of its 1,700 workforce. (CNET)

Puppet Walt Mossberg v. Ryan Block; a fight over the relevance of Flash makes this one perturbed puppet (NSFW). (Mr. Hogg’s YouTube Channel)

Orb Releases Mac Client; free app streams media (e.g. a live view from a webcam) to practically any device. (jkOnTheRun)

A Roadmap to OLED TVs? Reports peg LG creating 15-inch model this year, 20-inch next year and all the way to 40-inch panels in 2012. (The New York Times)

Já imaginou carregar um notebook da mesma forma que se carrega uma revista, um jornal ou um canudo de formatura?

Pois é, no Japão estão em desenvolvimento protótipos de notebooks flexíveis com tecnologia OLED. Não entendeu? Veja o vídeo acima e descubra o que eu estou dizendo.

Os futuros notebooks terão tela OLED junto a outros materiais flexíveis, o que também inclui as tradicionais conexões. A tela é multi-touch e há ainda uma caneta especial, também dobrável. Uma base para a conexão com a tomada de energia acompanha o produto.

A única coisa que faltou foram painéis solares que carregam o próprio notebook tanto em ambientes fechados quanto em abertos, assim dispensando os famosos fios. O que vocês acham?

Créditos: PlaneTech

Lately, I’ve really wanted to check out the Zune HD. It is a beautifully designed portable media player with a webkit-based Internet browser. It’s OLED display is said to be gorgeous, and this sucker packs an Nvidia Tegra chip which means silky smooth HD video playback without any lag. The size looks almost perfect, being just slightly slimmer than the iPod touch.

The user interface is very artsy and greatly improved compared to previous Zunes. Critics have praised the Zune HD as an evolution of the device which is finally coming into into its own. Finally a device that is on par with Apple’s iPod touch, and could give it a run for its money if it gains enough traction. The Zune HD needs apps and it needs them fast if it wants to rumble with the iPod touch.

I’ve hit several Best Buys and have not been able to even see the device in person. Haven’t had time to check out J and R or some other places. The more great things I hear about it, the more I want to hold it in my hands.

Here is another reason to pick the Zune HD up. It is one hell of a scratch proof gadget. Check out how it fairs under a pen, knife, key, and other sharp objects.

Stunning.

Sony Walkman NWZ-A840

Gonzalo Tirado Hightech presenta las nuevas series de los Sony Walkman NWZ-A840 de reproductores de MP3, tienen un estupendo diseño con una pantalla OLED de 2,8 pulgadas. Midiendo 7,2 Mm., el dispositivo cuenta con 64 GB de espacio de almacenamiento con sintonizador FM, una cancelación de ruido incorporada y la famosa e impresionante batería de 29 horas de reproducción de música o 9 hs de video de Sony. La tecnología del Sony Walkman NWZ-A840 además permite soportar la mayoría de los formatos multimedia y actualmente está disponible con acabados en bronce u oro. Gonzalo Tirado Hightech nos muestra aquí debajo un video.

Samsung está metiendo toda la leña en el asador para distanciarse cada vez más de sus competidores y vaya si lo está logrando. No sólo acaba de presentar nuevas pantallas OLED para portátiles, sino (y los más importante para nosotros) es que acaba de anunciar todo un televisor OLED de 30 pulgadas y encima con tecnología 3D.

Como podéis ver, Samsung continua en la vanguardia tecnológica. Le está dando sopas con onda a muchos de los fabricantes que hasta ahora eran de referencia obligada en el sector. Y la muestra es esta presentación de toda una pantalla OLED de 30 pulgadas y encima con 3D. Mientras, otras casas, prácticamente han paralizado todas sus novedades en paneles OLED. Pero volviendo al televisor, que es lo importante, decir que estamos ante un equipo de 2.5mm de grosor, con contraste del orden del millón a 1 y con tecnología 3D basada en sincronización con lentes. Sobre precio mejor no hablar porque nos puede dar a todos un soponcio. Pero el hecho está ahí. Que hasta ahora las compañías que presentaban equipos “hito” eran otras y como podéis ver, parece que las cosas están cambiando…