OLED, may help improve battery life…

Organic Light Emitting Diode screens for your cell phone, or smart watch…

A Light Emitting Diode uses very little energy to cause electrons to leap (pushed actually), from a tiny needle-point of exotic metal to get to the much lower potential anvil, sitting nearby, effectively shedding the excess energy they don’t need anymore, as light.  Imagine the point as if it were a locker-room full of enthusiastic teenage boys crowded together into a small space, but they’re able to jump across a tiny wire to get to a very spacious room full of frisky ladies.  It doesn’t take a lot of push to get them moving, shedding their pants on the way across.  

Considering that early Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) used plant juice to block the back-light from shinning thru, we learned they could be better than the first versions, and they got there, but still not best.  They used a lot of power to close the shutters (figuratively speaking), via altering the angle of the crystal latus to re-direct the light rather than pass it thru, there by preventing the back-light from showing, making the screen (almost) black.  An ancillary issue was that blue was hard to make because of the way blue wavelength reacted as it passed through the vegetable juice.  

OLED is different, and really cool for engineers.  This new method of creating the impossible blue color is good news.  The LCD back-light took 95-volts to create, and that voltage, from a tiny battery, eat it up pretty fast.  Lately, LCD has improved, but this new discovery, is really great because it means the 95-volts is no longer required, because new cell-phone technology will not be LCD, but a different use of the organic plant materials, and LED.

BTW… if you look up what vegetable they used to make the LCD, you’ll have a completely different thought in your mind the next time you sit for a meal and (like my grand-parents kept saying), “eat your greens”.

What I’m waiting to hear now, is will the LED screen be viewable in a normal sun-lit afternoon street corner.  I haven’t heard it yet, and I watch this sort of evolution, constantly… which means you might want to check AJ’s pages for my next post about the current A.I. and the path of the Anamos… in my opinion, scary but inevitable.

Off Topic Fun Fact… Years ago, an engineering firm searched for some type of liquidfluid they could use in automobile shock-absorbers that would change to thicker or thinner fluid characteristics, by altering a voltage applied to them.  They wanted to use it in dump-trucks because when the truck is empty, the stiff shock made the truck jump like a frog on the roadway at a stop-light, but needed to be able to support the vehicle and allow operator control on curves when the truck was fully loaded.  After testing hundreds of liquids, they found a perfect candidate, Hershel’s Chocolate.  Do they use the high-teck shock in computer augmented luxury cars now, or on rocket launch platforms, or on the support platforms of deep underground military base installations to quell the vibrations resulting from a direct hit by enemy munitions?  Ponder that while your eating your vegetables, as well.