Innovation: Flexible OLED Display

TV with flexible OLED display

We've been looking at displays with flat screen for years, whether it be phones or TVs. Now, there is a technology that will allow us to watch a TV with a curved screen. OLED (organic light-emitting diode) is a display technology that enables beautiful and efficient displays and lighting panels. Flexible OLED is used in products with curved OLED display. Curved OLED display will allow more immersive viewing experience, eliminate distortion in colors and caused by the angle because it provides equal distance from all parts of the screen to the eyes.

Smartphone with flexible OLED display

This innovation is important because it could allow us to make a product that will replace papers and tablets PCs. It could be used to produce a very thin and flexible device which could be very applicable. The device could be used in work spaces, school, and homes. If it is integrated with other technologies, it would definitely improve our lifestyle.

Westwood on the Cutting Edge

My project is building a robot using Arduino Intel Galileo and MakerBot 3D printer. Students will design a robot that looks asthetically nice, and can stand a and walk on two feet. They will model and render parts of their robot, and will 3D print the parts using MakerBot 3D printer to build the robot. Students will also program/code commands for the robot to walk on Arduino Intel Galileo. They will need to utilized their knowledge and research from multiple disciplines to be successful in this project.

 

Students will learn how to code and program for the robot which is a content from computer science. They will learn how to design a physically stable robot that can balance and be able to model the parts of a robot and build it which is a content from physics and fabrication. Students will learn to be artistic because they will need to designe an asthetically pleasing robot. They will also learn how to communicate effectively because they will need to explain their process of designing and building their robot and why their robot is better than the others. This project is AWESOME because you get to make your own robot!

 Other possible projects

• Improve the design of a pen using 3D scanner and 3D printer.
• Build a mind controlled car using Emotiv, Arduino TRE and 3D printer.
• Build a trachuchet without any screws, nails, etc. using 3D printer.
• Communicate without speaking and gestures, and only use our mind to communicate using Emotiv and RaspberryPi
• Build an upscaled replica of a small toy or downscaled replica of a car using 3D scanner and 3D printer.

Invention: Phonograph

Thomas Edison. 1877. Edison Cylinder Phonograph.



          Phonograph was invented in 1977 by Thomas Edison. While there were devices that could record sound, Edison’s phonograph was the first device to be able to record and reproduce sound. The phonograph originally recorded sound onto a tinfoil sheet cylinder. Later on improvement were made to use wax-coated cardboard cylinders to record sound. There weren’t any device that could reproduce recorded sound before phonograph.

          Phonograph is historically important because it was the beginning of sound recording technology. The invention of phonograph led to the invention of gramophone, which used flat, double-sided discs instead of cylinder. Sound recording technology kept on improving – vinyl LP record to cassette tape to compact disk to digital recording formats.  If phonograph wasn’t invented, then the production of recorded sound wouldn’t have developed, and we wouldn’t be able listen to music unless we go to a live concert.