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Designer Vadim Kibardin’s Black & White Clock concept is a series of four OLED numerals, each with independent sources of power. The really neat part about this concept, other than looking really cool, is that the clock will automatically sense the lighting in the room, switching to white digits in dark conditions and black digits when it’s bright.

Not only will this reduce eye strain, but it looks sorta three dimensional. Each piece being independent is nice because it adds a bit of personalization. You can arrange the numerals how you want without the limitations of one large power board.

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Can’t afford an Optimus Maximus? Don’t feel bad, I can’t either. And anyone who can afford it didn’t get rich buying $1600 keyboards. Art Lebedev has announced a numpad-like keypad called the Optimus Pultius.

The keyboard comes packed with 15 OLED keys, an SD card slot and a USB hub. It’ll look great alongside the Maximus you don’t own or with any other keyboard. Come to think of it, if you try putting this keyboard next to any keyboard that isn’t a top dollar Maximus, it’ll just make that keyboard look even shittier. No price announcements as of yet, but look for it at the end of 2008 or early 2009.

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If you were to get your hands on a Flux Capacitor and traveled to the year 2014, Marty McFly style, you might see some gadgets that will blow your mind. The Ori-ori-Moshi-moshi device (that name might be hell on its marketing) is a conceptual multimedia device made of a semi-flexible OLED display, which uses an origami-like form factor for pure awesomeness.

Just like many dream gadgets from the future, the Ori-ori-Moshi-moshi from AntennaDesign consolidates about every electronic function under the sun into one compact and pretty device. You name it, it can do it. You can use it as a phone, a gaming device, a media player, a camera, and photo editor. The OLED display can be folded in an assortment of ways to adapt to its present use. (more…)

Some things were promised to us in old science fiction movies about what the future would bring. Flying cars was one, which is still yet to happen despite our prayers. Another would be space travel, which of course has happened, but not to the far reaches of the universe like the movies would lead you to believe. And of course the old wrist transmitters. Featured in movies with both video and no video, but cool features. Luckily for us, the video wrist watch is another prediction which became reality.

The OLED Video Wristwatch from geek gear troubadours, ThinkGeek, has a 128×128 pixel 1.5″ screen, which surprisingly is said to have an impressive crisp picture. The watch can also display images, play MP3s and WMA files, and oh yeah…it can tell the time as well.

Through the wonders of technology the wristwatch charges through a USB, providing 7 hours of play time (4 hours of video playback) and comes with a mini CD which contains the software needed to convert videos into such a tiny format. Both a 1GB and 2GB version are available, depending on the amount of dough you wanna lay down.

For $130, the 2GB version can be yours, which is a small price to pay for the opportunity to don an article of electronics that has been dreamed about for decades.

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We’ve seen OLED around for ages, but we have never seen them really mass-marketed to substitute LCDs, they’re only found on the external screens of certain mobile phones, or small digital audio devices. Sony is keeping us drooling at again by showing fully-assembled 1cm thin OLED displays at CES this year, the largest one measuring 27″ diagonally, with a resolution of 1920×1080. Brightness peaks at 600cd/sqm, contrast at 1million:1, color is at 10bit RGB and the range is larger than that of NTSC gamut area supposedly. Again, these are all prototypes and there’s no word on market availability. Sharp next door is doing a much better job, as their 108″ LCDs will actually go on sale this summer. — Sam Chan

Sony at CES [Impress Japan]

We all know that it’s beginning to fall into the world of vaporware. It’s the list of products that never appear, the Gizmondo is such an item. The Optimus Keyboard. The supposed full OLED, full color keyboard that has recently been announced to cost around $1,200. If that is the true price, not only will the creators not make any money, but they will join the list with the Gizmondo.

The Optimus Mini 3 is the only real product out right now, and at about $160, not too many people are buying it. Optimus has announced a little feature improvement, the Mini 3 will be able to connect to another Mini 3 to make a sort of 3×2. So a total of 6 humongous keys that don’t do much of anything. Optimus needs to get their real product out on the market. — Nik Gomez

Optimus Mini 3 [via SlashGear]

LG has unveiled a new concept laptop they call the ‘e-Book’. No, this isn’t an eBook reader. It’s a forward-thinking laptop, sporting an OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) screen (which is much more energy-efficient than an ordinary LCD screen), a second OLED screen for the keyboard, and a fuel-cell battery. Here’s where things get confusing. Some sources report the battery uses ‘blue methyl alcohol’ (Engadget), while others claim the e-Book uses ‘natural gas, methanol, and other eco-friendly liquid fuels’ (Laptoping).  The concept received a ‘Red Dot Award’, a German prize for industrial design, and has us here at Gearfuse eagerly hoping the e-Book makes it into production soon. — Mike Payne

[via Laptoping]