I’m really not a techno geek, but I thought this story and photo were interesting. Imagine being able to create computer monitors or television screens that were on a flexible clear film. Reminds me of the current craze of roll-up keyboards and pianos. If they could get their manufacturing costs down, that would help drop a lot of weight out of laptops.

GE has demonstrated the first OLED roll-to-roll manufacturing technology.  “Researchers have long dreamed of making OLEDs using a newspaper-printing like roll-to-roll process,” said Anil Duggal, manager of GE’s Advanced Technology Program in Organic Electronics. “Now we’ve shown that it is possible. Commercial applications in lighting require low manufacturing costs, and this demonstration is a major milestone on our way to developing low cost OLED lighting devices.”

Read the rest of Joel Hruska’s story at arstechnica.com.