Kodak OLED technology will be featured on Green Magazine TV Thursday, June 25 at 8:30 am on the Time Warner Cable Channel 36, Dish Network Channel 182, and DIRECTV Channel 278.

The show is about companies that are leading the way to a more sustainable future. Kodak's continued innovations in OLED technology will make the world a better place, with applications in both flat panel display and solid-state lighting. Kodak's compelling OLED "Green" impact will ultimately result in panels having fewer sub-components for ease of recycling, absence of heavy metals requiring special handling (such as mercury), and lower energy consumption. 

We are proud to know that all OLED products will use Kodak's invention of OLED technology. Kodak's leadership role in OLED technology represents what Kodak is all about ... "Making the World a Better Place" for many generations to come.

Here is the clip about Kodak OLED technology...

RANDOM TRIVIA:  The host of Green Magazine TV, Tristan Rogers, has connections to Rochester, NY (headquarters of Kodak). He has played Robert Scorpio on the soap opera General Hospital for many years. General Hospital is set in a city that looks suspiciously like Rochester, NY - it even has the same area code! When some of the show's best-loved characters, Luke and Laura, returned in the 90s, they shot the outdoor scenes right here in Rochester. A couple of scenes stand out for fans of GH - Luke and Laura jumping from a helicopter over a waterfall (shot over our city's High Falls) and driving a pink Cadillac down Main Street.

As long as we're playing Six Degrees of Separation ...  Kodak is connected to Vincent Pastore of The Sopranos (he showed us all how he feels about pricey ink), who is currently a cast member on GH.

During the first week of June, I was in San Antonio, Texas for the Society for Information Display's annual trade show. This is typically a techie show where you can find all the latest innovations in display technology, i.e. LCD screens for mobile phones, TVs & laptops; big plasma TVs; and newer technologies, like Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) and e-paper.  This year's show did not disappoint in that area, but there was also something new to be found on the show floor and in the technical symposiums - new lighting technology for a more sustainable world.

You are probably wondering what lamps have to do with laptop screens, right? It turns out that the organic layers you use to make an OLED for a TV can be used to make a flat "light bulb." This new "light bulb" is really a solid state light source that can greatly reduce the amount of electricity needed to provide the world's lighting and eliminate certain heavy metals, like mercury, from the light fixtures in our homes and workplaces.  You can see a video of the OLED light panels Kodak demonstrated at Display Week on YouTube:



RANDOM TRIVIA:  Even though Kodak is headquartered in Rochester, NY, we found our very own Kodak Building in San Antonio.
 


Thanks to our intrepid scientist, Tom Pawlik, we can fill in that question mark! Kodak was part of the International Exposition HemisFair in 1968, whose theme was to celebrate man's desire to go higher and farther in his constant search for achievements.



To that end, the 622-foot Tower of the Americas was constructed in HemisFair Park and was the tallest observation tower in the Western Hemisphere, at the time.
 

Kodak has returned to San Antonio, 41 years later, to demonstrate some our latest achievements. Just as San Antonio's HemisFair Park has evolved into the tourist-mecca that is the Riverwalk, Kodak has progressed from photography to new technologies for lighting and displays.