We’ve just hot-footed it from LG’s booth at IFA where, after gawping at their luscious OLED TVs we heard there are plans afoot for plenty more OLED gadgets in the coming months. Top of the list seems to be a new type of monitor, specifically designed to be taken out of the house and used on the go with a laptop.
According to Andrew Warner, LG’s Marketing Director for the UK and Ireland, larger sizes of OLED are on the cards from LG’s engineers, with a 30-inch version pegged for 2012 and a 40-inch following later.
When asked whether LG’s existing 15-inch OLED screens would find a home in laptops any time soon, Warner said that if they did then they’d be in more expensive models, and that internally LG is experimenting with OLED-packed “laptop monitors”.
LG 15–inch OLED hitting UK next year
The new laptop monitor screens are apparently intended to be taken out on the road and used by laptop owners who need more screen real estate on the go, without bulking up their machine.
It’s a neat idea, and one that’d surely win applause from photographers, film-makers and artists, but LG also claims it’d help laptop owners suffering from cricked necks and eye-strain. Its own research points towards laptop owners stooping over their machines, and squinting at small screens. A simple, lightweight external screen could solve that.
Stay tuned, and we’ll bring you more on LG’s OLED plans as soon as we hear them.
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