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.
 

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