IR-detecting OLED film could mean cheap night vision on everything
By Tim Stevens 
posted April 27th 2010 7:59PM
posted April 27th 2010 7:59PM
posted April 27th 2010 7:59PM
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I want this on my next phone. For.. reasons I cannot legally describe.
@iFargle
I want this surgically implanted into my retinas for reasons I cannot legally describe
I want this surgically implanted in my retinas to.... save electricity on lighting! Yeah. Thats it. Lighting.
@Seb6554
I want a high intensity IR emitter for reasons I cannot legally describe.
@erik1080 lol
I cannot legally describe jack *#$%!
@iFargle
coat my eyes in this stuff and i won't get yelled at anymore for pissing around, rather than in, the toilet in the middle of the night...seriously that thing is deceiving in the darkness
@Pearl Jam actually they can make contact lenses using this right?!
My inner child is screaming.
'I WANT IT NAOO!'
Pervert approved! St-stamp!
Sounds fun. I hope this isn't one of those fantastc ideas we will never hear from again.
This would make the MW2 night vision googles actually worth it.
Paris Hilton must be happy
@brettlewis It'd allow us to see just how messed up... her hair is.
it doesnt sound like true infrared vision. Title is stupid and misleading
@Natal
YOU'RE stupid and misleading.
@smp
up-voted
for making a 6 year old's insult an accurate statement.
"research taking place at the University of Florida"
lmao.
@Natal
Florida has universities?
Go Gators!
@GatorCoder
Go Gators!!!
I was thinking of replacing my car windshield with an 65" LCD TV (receive meta data + video feed from camera mounted on the hood) .. but I guess if OLED works that'll be cool too.
Tim: You might want a different night vision pic for this article. IR-based night vision gives you all sorts of colors based on the amount of heat coming off objects. The green night vision is light amplification.
@John H
Seriously?
@SgtR
Seriously as in is that true or seriously as in did I seriously bother to make that distinction? Yes to the first and to the second, what can I say I have my geek/nerd side, as I suspect most Engadget readers do. Nothing wrong with being precise and correct, despite what people who can't distinguish there/their/they're and it's/its might say when confronted by someone who can.
@John H
sing it brother
@John H
Actually, according to the article in popular science (http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-04/tapping-oled-tech-cheap-thin-film-gives-night-vision-cell-phones-eyeglasses) the resultant image will in fact have a green tint and will therefore look very much like the picture provided.
@John H
Actually, you're confusing light amplification (which amplifies all light, including IR), with FLIR which turns radiated heat into a visible picture.
Don't believe me, put on LA goggles and have some one shine an IR light in the lens. You'll see a blinding green flash before the protection circuits kick in.
Uh oh, Buffalo Bill's in big trouble now! (Oh wait...was she a great big fat person?)
i'm also excited by infrared
I wish that engadget would make a tag for far-in-the-future products, because i don't want to read this if it isn't happening soon.
does this mean i will finally get to sneak up to my neighbors window at night at watch her while she sleeps without having to wear a miners head lamp on my head??
@Krispy
Either she's a heavy sleeper or blind.
just give me my sunglasses at night.
cheap??? yeah that's what they said when OLED first came out...the XEL-1 sold at $2499 when it was released! Even if it's cheaper to produce them now, I doubt that manufacturers would reduce the price, instead they would stay at the current price but increased product quality. I guess saying that it will be 'cheaper' is inappropriate.. instead should say that it gets 'better', at the same price.
"Dr. Franky So" - I haven't timewarped back to April 1st have I?
Windshields and glasses. Who among you can spot the egregious technical flaw in that? It's such a duzzy that it screams how incompetent the writer is.
All you have to do is... coat glass with it, and every passing photon will be amplified. What a crock.
@BuzzMega
Do us a favor, look up silicone micro lens arrays.
Oh, and learn to spell doozy.
@jon Okay Deusenberg = deusy (Wikipedia) or doozy from the slang variation.
Got it.
Now you work on two things: Optical physics and silicon versus silicone. You can NOT cover a windshield with micro-lenses and see through it or have it show up to your eyes as a coherent image.
My image chips are covered with micro lens arrays, but they are laminated on top of the image chip, not a filter. A windshield is equivalent to a filter, presumably clear. As are eyeglasses. Neither can be coated with micro lenses and perform what the writer promises from his or her fog of misunderstanding.
@BuzzMega
Main Entry: doo·zy
Variant(s): or doo·zie \ˈdü-zē\ also doo·zer \-zər\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural doozies or doozers
Etymology: perhaps alteration of daisy
Date: 1916
: an extraordinary one of its kind
From a real dictionary, but way to source Wiki, (let me guess, freshman?) Regardless of it's origin whether from "Duesy", or "Daisy" the word you want is "Doozy", unless you're calling this a car.
Actually, I meant silicone. It's been used for lens arrays in everything from space based solar collectors to sensor micro-arrays.
However being an expert in OP I'm sure you just forgot that.
For the other, of course you can't see through it, it's a display.
I've always wanted a night-vision windshield...
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One of the things that has held back OLED displays has been the color blue. If you are making a green-only display this vastly simplifies making the display using current OLED tech.
Maybe Tim Tebow can use these sucker to increase his chances at sucess in the NFL. Tim Tebow sucks.