Samsung and LG are showing some amazing large-screen OLED TVs at CES, leading Forbes contributor Michael Kanellos to opine that OLED TVs Could Really Be Real This Time. If we follow the usual technology trajectory, gadget-lovers will start buying them in 2013-2014, it will go mainstream in 2015, and by 2019, we’ll finally decide we need to keep up with everyone else and get it in our home.
In our household, we had a perfectly serviceable CRT TV and decided to keep it until it broke down; it never did; I finally decided to get a flat screen TVlast year. Our working CRT TV went to goodwill. The 2 PCs, 4 laptops and various hard drives and devices in our home are evidence of the aging-but-working device pileup. gadgets become technologically outdated well before they actually break down. my contribution in the tech world to making this situation worse in a small way? Today I just was going over a patent application with a lawyer on a patent I have to provide more accurate SOC/ chip-timing to account for semiconductor aging effects; Freescale designs parts, in particular automotive parts, for 10+ years of life, and accurate timing for aging effects means better performance with longer life, so your 2012 model car will have working electronics in 2025.
So in the next decade, you will not only have an OLED TV that will be superthin and energy-efficient and blow you away in terms of color and sharpness, but also you will have so many old LCD and other displays, devices in working order, you will be wondering what to do with them all.