OLED displays are not just for consumer electronics. With a dash of creativity, they can be modeled into a nice dress. English fashion designer Gareth Pugh put together an outfit made of flexible OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) displays. OLEDs are gaining popularity because they are more energy efficient than traditional LED screens.
U.K. based company PolyPhotonix made the OLED display used in the dress that was shown earlier this week at a conference to promote plastic electronics. Plastic electronics technology allows circuits to be printed onto any surface and over large areas and is seen as a a low-cost alternative to conventional silicon-based electronics.
The dress is created from a special fabric coated with a thin, flexible layer of OLED film that can change color when triggered by an electronic signal. A microcontroller sewn into the fabric controls the signals.
The OLED dress is interesting but nowhere near as cool as the LED dress created by two London-based designers. The ‘Galaxy’ LED dress was embroidered with 24,000 full color LEDs and 4,000 hand-applied Swarovski crystals.
A video shows us a brief glimpse of the OLED dress on a catwalk.
[via OLED-Info]
Photo: (bisgovuk/flickr)
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