Sprayable/Paintable OLEDs that power themselves.

First off, wow. If they really can pull off the self powering, and producing light, awesome. But I think people are making some retarded leaps with what this means. Claims by some bloggers that this is going to be able to be sprayed or painted onto flexible materials allowing for flexible displays is wrong i think. I am no display expert, but don't these OLEDs all need to be in a grid and connected to each other and able to be addressed by software in order to function as a display? Painting on OLEDs will not line them up in an addressable grid, though they probably will all be connected.

In the end, I think that all this will amount to being is a way to paint a lightsource onto anything. Which is still way cool, awesome, neato. But turning my walls into a lightsource is a very very far cry from turning my walls into a motion picture nightmare. On top of that, how would you even interface with the surface? Sure you don't need power cables, but you do need a signal cable to tell the OLEDs what to display.

Regardless, this is a cool advance, and there will be thousands of potentially environment changing applications for this, but it aint gonna be a tv the size of my house. At least not until they can make the OLEDs automatically line up like good little pixels, and be self powering, and be able to be addressed wirelessly.