LG Display, distributor of OLED panels to today's OLED TV makers, has revealed the winners of its OLED display design contest, showcasing possible future iterations of home theater displays, and they really are. OLED, come on! The contest has been organized in association with British design magazine Dezeen for the past few months, to help LG Display come up with "fresh and innovative ideas to improve the user experience" of OLED displays. Winning entries include a reimagining of LG's rollable OLED, in a slimmer, spiral-shaped form factor that can be deployed against a wall, without the need for a large mechanical base, such as a raised table that sits above the headboard. from the bed. a bed so you can watch TV and movies while settling in for a night's sleep. While the older design ("Scroll") builds on the flexible, rollable capabilities of OLED panels, which is why it's used in rollable phones like the Samsung Galaxy Fold, the latest ("Console") demands the convenience and display of which way -box design can rethink the way we use and interact with technology. The console could well replace our phones for late-night screen use, but the idea of a screen raised above the bed so you can comfortably look horizontally is truly intriguing. It echoes the LG Display prototype transparent OLED TV shown in late XNUMX, which you can lift off a bed frame to view at the foot of the bed, and talks about the relaxing movie one of our Writers rehearsed throughout the use of its roof as a projection. screen.
A roll-up roll of an OLED TV (Image credit: LG Display) A press release for the announcement states that "The first place was for 'Scroll,' an entirely new term that uses LG Display's transparent OLED display to create "A very stylish and useful design. Taking advantage of the thinness of the OLED panel, the Term attaches to the wall seamlessly while maintaining a large shelf under your big screen." We are told that "5 finalists were chosen from XNUMX entries from over XNUMX countries based on how well they incorporated the endless possibilities of the company's OLED display technology into their imaginative work." Other winners included a side-rollable screen ("Flag.R") that lets you physically control the aspect ratio of the screen, and a wheeled screen ("Trollie") that "can be moved and adjusted. Depending on at the height desired by the user."
Wait, can I get one?
None of these OLED TV designs are commercially available yet, but LG Display has hinted that these winning entries could be incorporated into commercial sets in the future. The press release states that "the award-winning designs will be considered for commercialization once their market potential has been examined by LG Display's talented engineers and designers who are responsible for new products and businesses." These designs could close before they reach your local retailer, or take a few years to do so. Mais ils ils parlent du potentiel naissant de l'OLED, ainsi que de ce que LG Display appelle son « évolutivité sans précédent » – avec la technologie TV premium qui s'étend sur le marché dans une variété de nouvelles tailles et de nouveaux facteurs de forme all the time. Forty-eight-inch OLED TVs, are you interested? TV maker LG Electronics brought the rollable OLED/65RX to market, after all, and while it costs €XNUMX in the UK, and surely €XNUMX when it launch in the US, it does. exciting technologies. Don't expect a next-generation OLED TV to be affordable when it first hits the market. The best XNUMX-inch LG OLED TV deals now
