Dai Nippon Printing's Joe Walsh approved OLED poster
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Apr 8th 2009 12:53PM
posted Apr 8th 2009 12:53PM
We have to admit that we got excited when we saw this poster, but that's only 'cos we thought it was for the dinosaur rock band from the 1970s -- an appropriate object of some good-natured ribbing, if ever there was one -- instead of some baseball team from Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Manufactured by the Dai Nippon Printing Co., this "light emitting poster" is currently on display at the exhibition space of the aforementioned sluggers. Combining an LED backlight for graphics and OLED panels for scrolling text, energy use is sixty percent that of fluorescent light, and the OLEDs have lifetime of 20,000 hours. Expect commercial availability sometime in April 2010, by which time the Eagles should be ready for their next "farewell" tour.
[Via OLED Info]
[Via OLED Info]
Sixty percent that of a fluorescent light? Either that's a typo or my idea that OLEDs are more power efficient is wrong, either are just as likely
I'm sure he meant 60% less
well, let's not forget that there are OLEDs and LEDs, as well as some controller for the scrolling text. So that's still pretty good, even if it isn't a typo. Plus, the energy comparisons are usually against LCD and plasma TVs, which I'm sure there is a far greater gap.
Damn, I was getting all excited that Eagles (not *the* Eagles) were announcing another North American tour. I saw them on the current one, but it was the best show I've been to see, and I'd love if they came back around. That said, what does the "Joe Walsh Approved" part of the title have anything to do with the article? I suppose this is interesting, an OLED poster with a lifespan of 20,000 hours, but I'd like to see these in a more conventional setting, not used simply for posters.
Imagine one of these bitches in the back seat on my Maserati. You know, it does 185, but I lost my license, so now I don't drive.
I'm a Kintetsu Buffaloes fan, meself.
But life's been good, right?
Yeah, so far.
Have you found it hard to leave?
Cool dudes
Real Joe, or Robo-Joe?
wait, i don't get it. i thought rakuten was a shopping site? someone explain please?
according to wiki, Rakuten owns the team
put some solar power method into this, and they can plaster my city with lit-up moving posters.
hello Minority Report-style advertising.
Protocol violation. You totally jumped verses there. Better would have been to ask how I get around these days, so I could tell you that I have a limo, ride in the back, and we could continue this ridiculousness until it dominated the whole first page of comments.
But, since you ask, yeah, it is.
There goes the neighborhood.
I don't know which is worse, that the Eagles switched back to country music or that they signed an exclusive deal with Wal-Mart to sell the CD. Either one would have been enough to ensure that I would not listen to it, but to do both, they made damn sure.