Sony demos battery-powered, fully-wireless OLED TV

What's better than a (cheap) XEL-1? How's about a wireless, battery-powered XEL-1? Sony has recently shown off a completely cordless OLED TV with the same ultrathin chassis as used in the aforementioned 11-incher. Bulking things up a bit is the integrated HDTV tuner, and of course, it's wall-mountable for midgets who live in a Little Tikes playhouse. Unfortunately, there's no real mention of specs (aside from the whole "3-millimeter thin" part), and even worse, there's no telling how long we'll have to wait before we see it hit shelves (let alone grow to a size that's actually useful). Anywho, tap the read link for a plethora of images.

[POW! @ Sep 11th 2008 3:04AM]

omfg nerdgasm

[ngamer007 @ Sep 11th 2008 12:02AM]

OLED is great and all, and I know the technology is making progress, but let me know when it hits a usable size. 11" is a joke, sorry.

[Jack @ Sep 11th 2008 4:08AM]

would be useful for a laptop, just not as part of you home cinema!

[Cody @ Sep 11th 2008 12:04AM]

Seems great for a portable screen to play games on. Although, since it is so thin it might be easy to break...

[Colin Potter @ Sep 11th 2008 12:10AM]

nothin beats a midget joke

[Shinigami @ Sep 11th 2008 12:10AM]

OLED TVs! Please "grow to a size that's actually useful". Those sizes start at 30 inches for TVs and 22 inches for PC/Mac monitors (though I'd prefer to use same thing for TV and for PC monitor needs).

[simon @ Sep 11th 2008 12:29AM]

couldn't you just say 22 inches for computers? I mean what does monitor size have to do with the OS?

[hungry @ Sep 11th 2008 1:08AM]

WTF must everybody not mention linux I use Linux!!!!!

[blizz419 @ Sep 11th 2008 7:53AM]

Me too Hungry but i dont make a big deal outta it, i use windows XP too should i brag about that? i don't care for Macs much though they definitely have there uses who cares what you use as long as you like and are comfortable with whatever OS you use, damn fanboys

[Knives_Out @ Sep 11th 2008 12:12AM]

Fix the comment rating styles Engadget. Neutral comments shouldn't be so light ... you only need to bury the low ranked ones

Neutral - dark
Highly/Highest ranked - dark
Low Ranked - light

[allislost @ Sep 11th 2008 1:09AM]

He's right. It's bit hard to read the neutral comments.

[Kris Quigley @ Sep 11th 2008 2:14AM]

Isn't making comments lighter a kind of censorship? It was fine the way it was before!

[rlynd3 @ Sep 11th 2008 2:40AM]

OK if you really want to make the "low ranking" hurt more and hopefully drive off some of the tools that have infiltrated Engadget lately?.. Then just have the "low Ranks" collapse. That way they're not in view by default, the tools don't get the negative attention and if i was curious i could just expand there post...

P.S. - Your welcome!!

[rlynd3 @ Sep 11th 2008 2:50AM]

---Or---

Low Ranked - light
Neutral - dark
Highly/Highest ranked - "On Fire"

[Josh @ Sep 11th 2008 2:50AM]

Reading comments is like driving through foggy weather.

[Colin Potter @ Sep 11th 2008 2:55AM]

bring back lowest ranked while you're at it... then it can be even more eye-straining to read!

[Wwhat @ Sep 11th 2008 5:32AM]

I find myself voting comments that are low ranked up again just so people can read them.
(not all of them of course, the ones with content)

[mattkenny @ Sep 11th 2008 6:09AM]

the main problem with the new commenting system is that it is actually bad for your eyes. The low contrast between the background and comments results in eye strain. Also, people without the best eyesight will find it very difficult to read. Surely there's a better way to emphasise high ranked comments, such as font size or border colour/width. E.g. lowest ranked could be smaller font (which can be increased by clicking a "show me properly" type button), and high ranked comments could be use a larger/bold font and have a darker/thicker border...

[Wwhat @ Sep 11th 2008 6:58AM]

I made a temp fix for those comments by editing UserContent.css in my firefox's chrome folder, but since it uses '.level1' as indicator that might conflict with other sites that use .level1 for something I guess :/'

[Daza @ Sep 11th 2008 8:02AM]

Hopefully someone can bust out a Grease Monkey script for Firefox. I can barely stand reading the comments. I know Engadget don't care, but if it isn't fixed, I'm outta here -- not going to strain my eyes just to read comments. As others have mentioned only neutral should be light (if at all). If it collapsed it would be much better, or just leave it like it was before, it wasn't bothering anyone.

[Wwhat @ Sep 11th 2008 10:36AM]

Interestingly enough it uses opacity to make the text faint rather than a straight color, way to use advanced functions eh, sigh.

Attempting a paste from the CSS:

.level1 { filter: alpha(opacity=40); opacity: .4; -moz-opacity: .4; }

[Jaws @ Sep 11th 2008 12:45AM]

I'm seeing that big box on the floor, and I'm not thinking thin and light... wake me when the screen size is bigger, the case size is smaller, and the price is a heck of a lot cheaper... ;)

[AuDioFreaK39 @ Sep 11th 2008 2:12AM]

Am I really the first comment to ask about battery life?

[Ron @ Sep 11th 2008 2:49AM]

I was also wondering the same thing. What kind of battery is in there? It's gotta be something powerful if it's going to have good battery life.

[Seanross @ Sep 11th 2008 2:53AM]

Just enough for you to watch the commercials :)

[vbtrash @ Sep 11th 2008 2:20AM]

sony should use these in the tz series vaios (as an option ofcourse)

[vbtrash @ Sep 11th 2008 2:24AM]

sony should use them in the tz series vaios (as an option ofcourse)

[Ron @ Sep 11th 2008 2:59AM]

I must be honest this is pretty impressive. I wonder why this hasn't been done before? There could easily be high powerful batteries in some of todays bigger HD sets.

[Daza @ Sep 11th 2008 9:38AM]

The question is why you would need batteries in a big TV set anyway?

[KrustyOrama @ Sep 11th 2008 4:53AM]

The Office, Season 4, Dinner Party

That looks like the pathetically small tv in Micheal's living room.

[Wwhat @ Sep 11th 2008 5:37AM]

Strange to demo them at a dentist (from the looks of it)

[strider_mt2k @ Sep 11th 2008 6:48AM]

I'm fairly certain that the Jawas had one of them inside that sand crawler of theirs.

[ugg.tryptophan @ Sep 11th 2008 5:38PM]

wireless...on a pole?