If I only had a nickel for every time I typed that headline … Vladimir Bulovic, of MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics, hooked a pickle up to what looks like a rotisserie spit, and got it to glow like an OLED pixel.
As Bulovic explains, OLED displays are 100-molecule-thick thin films hooked up to electrodes at the top and the bottom.
“The only thing you need to do next, is make sure you have a million individual little devices side by side.”
The gauntlet has been thrown — who among you will build the million pickle TV? MassTLC’s unConference is Thursday — let’s get this thing going as the next X Prize.
Via Popular Science.
Posted by Brendan Lynch
Tags: MassTLC, MIT, OLED, Research Laboratory of Electronics, unConference, Vladimir Bulovic, X Prize
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