Say bub, do you care to know what all that
OLED jazz is about? We'll bet you do, but you don't wanna read some dry polysyllabic academic paper written by five guys during their time away from the lab. What you want is a sharp demonstration, preferably by an
MIT professor, that goes straight to the point of what an Organic Light Emitting Diode is. Igor, roll in the pickle, please. Okay, he's not an Igor, his name is Vladimir Bulovic, but he does a terrific job of explaining how the passing of electric current excites organic molecules into creating those luscious ultra-bright colors we lust after that can fit inside
ridiculously small spaces. Slide past the break to see the vid in full, and yes, it's just as weird as you think it'll be.
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posted Oct 2nd 2009 9:53AM
So what is the organic part made from
Ignore that question
Chinese people are very good at being pixels.
Those dill pickle slices laid out side-by-side. I thought the video was pretty clear about that.
Pixels & Pickles
They don't sound similar for nothing.
That's why they last longer if you keep them refrigerated.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Igor, help me with the bags.
Igor: Soitenly. You take the blonde, I'll take the one in the turban.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I was talking about the luggage.
but the real question is, are they kosher pixels?
So he was comparing it to the thickness of a hair, hmmm... maybe that's where all of his went. There must have been a lot of comparing going on there.
MIT FTW
MIT fail, no diy instructions =(
See that's why he's a genius, he electrocutes a pickle, get the accounting department to OK it, then adds a sony OLED TV for comparison purposes, and it's best secured on his desk obviously.
my high school physics teacher did this in class
the pickle smelled like sh**t !!!!
I wonder what word starting with sh and ending in t has 2 empty positions, can't be 'shit' since that would have one *
shift?
Meh. Alton Brown on Good Eats did it already.
Simpsons did it!
CSI did it, too
I saw one of those at the "adult toy store" the other day, it was battery operated and quite a bit longer.
Plus, Alton Brown doesn't sound like Microsoft Sam's voice from WinXP.
If I only had the audio for this, I would SWEAR that it was using a voice synthesizer.
so we can make a OLED display from pickles, tomatoes and other vegetables..
(like huge one, for ads...)
So...
if a pickle gives you yellow light, Green =Yello+Blue where did blue go? (just kidding ok? If you're thinking of replying, just don't. Thanks)
I was saying, R-G/B*A^b2= blue is very hard to make and inefficient.
10 time more efficient in the future!
If only I was patient enough to wait...
Oh well
The pickle requires a lot of energy to glow. Making a screen out of produce is possible, but you have to pump each object with salt, and use a tremendous amount of energy. You probably also noticed the juice dripping out of the pickle whenever he turned on the electricity, and the smoke coming off of it. Your fruity jumbotron wouldn't last very long.
At least they'd be easily recyclbe.
pretty phuckin dope.......
pickles taste better when they're glowing!
Very interesting stuff. I hadn't previously known anything about OLED technology except "The O stands for organic....".
Everything is getting sized down nowadays. OLED TV screens, well, we face the problem of really small speakers, if placed on the sides of the screen.
I love bright colours and less power consumption, but I really love great sound.
If you loved great sound, you'd have seperate speakers anyway, right?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/video-emo-labs-invisible-speakers-visibly-demonstrated/
Just use two NXT panels with a larger speaker in the base for bass.
Or something like Amina's SoundUnseen.
So if I get an OLED TV, will there be hot pickle juice dripping out of the bottom of it? That could be a real downside to this technology.
Better than the alternative: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krsj2bcnRlM
i may be immature, but this looks like?? and the electric current excites what??
Your Penis
Can they do this with an Apple?
Lol. Maybe then we'll see that on the next MBP generation?
Apple's newest latop and desktops screens; Now made with real apples!
Yeah they can but it will be 3 times the cost and wont be compatible with other fruits and veggies.
Does anyone else think this guy sounds like the Persian King Xerxes from 300?
no
Reminds me years ago in the 90's I was flown to a branch office of Computerland (they also had a side business as an ISP) in Missouri... while I was working on their SGI mail server at about 2am a couple of guys walk upto me and say "want to see a glowing pickle?" At which point in time I moved from to the other side of the workbench making sure to keep them in my vision the theme song of deliverance was pounding in my head....
Shortly thereafter they produced a dill pickle stuck a fork on each side, cut off the end of a powercord and proceeded to shock the hell out of it, claiming the "ones in more brine are brighter". I gotta say Missouri is a weird, weird place.
"the ones in brine are birghter"
as the guy in the video said, higher sodium content = better glow :-)
,,,get me moose and squirrel!
I was shown the glowing pickle in a physics class. I didn't realize that this is what could be done with it. Although, I hope OLEDs don't smell as bad as the pickle did when it was electrocuted
thank you, i didnt know what OLED stands for until i read this article
-Red-
what's with calling him Igor just because English isn't his first language? Pretty poor Engadget..
Igor is pretty common lab lingo for someone that works in a lab.
Go watch "Young Frankenstein."
"Actually, it's pronounced eye-gor!"
I'll give you a nickle if you electrocute my pickle...
I always thought they were saying "pixels". My laptop's screen is 1,470,000 pickles!
Poll: How many megapickles is your computer screen?
No idea, but my camera has 7.2. Must be a dwarf variety.
The tiny cocktail pickles are more expensive than the regular ones, so now we know why those OLED screens are so expensive, pickles increase in price as they reduce in size rapidly.
deep fried pickle
Organic LEDs are not about being "efficient". They are all about DYING.
Yup, that's right. OLED organic molecules burn out/away.
First, the blue goes away some time between 41 days to a maximum of 5 years depending on how recent the OLED technology is and how much you use it.
The problem is so bad that some adopters have to turn their display off 99% of the time. IE: The Optimus Maximum keyboard. Why? Because they're closer to the start curve where their blue only lasts about 1000 hours.
So why would anyone want to build anything explicitly designed to self destruct? Simple, so you have to buy a new one. The manufacturers will only invest enough money to extend life time to what THEY think you should have. Gone are the days of having a 20 year old TV that still works.
It will be more like paying more than full price to license the usage of a device for a period of time (which may be shorter than they promise). After that, pay again or do with out.
Scientist 1: "Hey, we got this OLED to last for 100,000 hours."
Scientist 2: "What? DECREASE IT'S LIFE!"
^ That, is "explicitly designed to self destruct"
Your comment, however, is 50% bullshit.
"Yup, that's right. OLED organic molecules burn out/away."
Yup, cause we all know that CRTs, LCDs and PDPs don't burn out over time. *roll eyes*
I love how there's always one misinformed, gasbag who has to pipe up in every thread about OLEDs.
No, they're about looking good in a small amount of space. Everything degrades through use, you should accept that when you buy something. CRT's and LCD's have simmilar problems, they're just much more mature technologies so one made today with simmilar standards would last longer.
Thanks for keeping us up to date with 5 year old technology. OLED blues are around 30,000-60,000 hours these days and improving constantly.
I reported this to greenpeace
"That's the tastiest crunch I've ever watched! Vlassic!"
They should have used a Ball Park frank. Plenty of sodium to light up when the organic molecules are excited and you can eat them after they "plump up".
didn't you know, there is nothing organic in hotdogs - just glue, sawdust, and pork fat.
And glue, sawdust, and pork fat are made out of... carbon-based organic molecules?
Already saw Alton Brown do it ... AB rocks !
good video
Is he going to eat that pickle
This was my submission to the Science Fair in 6th Grade. I won first place!
Mr. Vladimir Bulovic tells us about his excited pickle....
When seen like this it's actually odd how much trouble they had to get blue, since electricity has no issues getting some blue light out naturally, most gasses emit blue so it's just getting them solid you'd think.
Thanks for posting that. Good Video.
and if you and your OLED screen get stranded, you can eat the veggie slices between the plastic layers...