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Speaker 1: Get in touch with technology with tech Stuff from how

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Speaker 1: stuff Works dot com. Hey there, welcome to tech Stuff.

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Speaker 1: I am your host, Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer

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Speaker 1: with How Stuff Works, and I heart radio and I

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Speaker 1: love all things tech. And now I'm going to talk

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Speaker 1: to you a little bit about classic episode, an episode

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Speaker 1: of tech Stuff that we published way back on March

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Speaker 1: two thousand and twelve called tech Stuff Stairs at O LEDs,

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Speaker 1: O L E d S. Chris Palette and I sat

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Speaker 1: down to talk about what are O LEDs, how do

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Speaker 1: they work, and why are they important? And I think

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Speaker 1: it's funny to listen to this older episode because when

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Speaker 1: we were recording it back in two thousand twelve, oh

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Speaker 1: LED screens were still very much in that R and

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Speaker 1: D kind of prototype stage. You didn't really see them

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Speaker 1: in very many consumer products. And these days where you're

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Speaker 1: seeing them and all sorts of stuff from smartphone too, tablets,

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Speaker 1: to laptop computers to television sets. So it's neat to

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Speaker 1: see how things have changed. Enjoy this classic episode. I

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Speaker 1: think by when I first started at How Stuff Works,

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Speaker 1: oh lads, we're still very very much in the prototype stage,

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Speaker 1: and you didn't really see anything on the market at

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Speaker 1: that time, the consumer market anyway, they had an O

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Speaker 1: LEDs type screen and now they're much later in the

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Speaker 1: prototype stage. But we're kidding the lads. Actually, now we're

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Speaker 1: getting to the point where we're finally seeing them scaled

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Speaker 1: up to large screen TVs. But for a long time,

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Speaker 1: the biggest screen you're gonna get with something like eleven Yeah. Yeah, Well,

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Speaker 1: the genesis of my joke being that people who are

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Speaker 1: really interested in OLED technology have been waiting for them

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Speaker 1: to come out for a very long time, and it

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Speaker 1: seems like they're they've been in development of some kind

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Speaker 1: for a for a long long time. They've been actually

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Speaker 1: pretty common in smaller screens like smartphones, rins for example. Um,

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Speaker 1: they're they're really great for that. They use less energy

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Speaker 1: than a lot of the other technologies and they're excellent

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Speaker 1: for that. But that's you know, getting them scaled up

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Speaker 1: you know, I wouldn't hold my breath. Well, but finally

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Speaker 1: they're starting to hit now. But and and also the

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Speaker 1: other thing people have been waiting for, and it's one

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Speaker 1: that idea of having a display that is actually malleable,

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Speaker 1: that you can bend it around things. And you know,

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Speaker 1: you might use that to have a foldable display. That's

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Speaker 1: what a lot of people talk about. But there are

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Speaker 1: other things you could use it for, Like you could

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Speaker 1: use it in displays. Stay in a store where you've

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Speaker 1: got round columns and you could have a display wrapping

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Speaker 1: around this round column. Uh yeah, things like that. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it's uh, and that's the thing about it. I think, Um,

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Speaker 1: the similarities. And there I think three major similarities between

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Speaker 1: the technologies red, green, and blue light. Well, the purpose

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Speaker 1: how they go about doing that. And we've talked about

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Speaker 1: some of the other technologies in the past, like for example,

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Speaker 1: you know, is you can even get some of different lengths,

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Speaker 1: so you can get one that fits your wrist really snugly,

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Speaker 1: and then you can show all this uh this UM

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Speaker 1: it's not always on display. Uh that unless you're you know,

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Speaker 1: a nurse, in which cases the other way around. Uh

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Speaker 1: the but yeah, that I could easily see that happening

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Speaker 1: further down the line. Um, And the potential for oh

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Speaker 1: We've already seen it in consumer goods like like smartphones

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Speaker 1: will know more about it. But I can't wait to

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Speaker 1: see how the new iPad looks, UM. And I'm sure

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Speaker 1: diode screen, possibly a retin a display. We don't know

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Speaker 1: because as we're recording this it's the week before Apple

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Speaker 1: that the March seventh, uh discussion it has nothing to

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Speaker 1: I guess we're waiting around, but I would be surprised

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Speaker 1: large last year. Yeah, whenever south By Southwest rolls around,

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Speaker 1: that's when it's time for a new iPad. Al right, guys, Well,

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Speaker 1: I think that wraps up our discussion on oh LEDs UM.

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Speaker 1: They're pretty cool and yeah, if you want to learn

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Speaker 1: exactly how that creates the the light that these layers

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