![]() ![]() Given LED paper’s super-lightweight quality, I would anticipate first seeing the technology applied to TVs, mobile devices, and printed media before anything else.Īccording to one marketing executive at Rohinni, “Anywhere there is a light, this could replace that.” He followed up with: “Everything the light light touches is our kingdom.” (Okay, that one was from The Lion King, but it’s still pretty applicable). Rohinni has said they plan to corner the commercial and industrial markets before moving elsewhere. Some speculate that 3D-printed light paper could be available to consumers by the end of 2015. okay, okay, I’ll stop here, but the point is, the potential here is tremendous. LightPaper could change how we read, and write, and advertise, and take pictures, and decorate, and customize cars, and. It may even eliminate lighting fixtures, lamps, and light bulbs-we could simply lay strips of LED paper above our couches or on our ceilings to light up our rooms. Paper-thin lighting could someday replace (or enhance) fine art, television screens, window tinting, and logos on mobile devices. I have to admit, this whole thing is pretty darn cool-I mean, imagine what we could do with 3D light-paper printers at home! (Maybe we could build the coolest collection of paper airplanes ever, that’s what.)īut I digress. Another couple of LightPaper perks is that it is considered eco-friendly and that it will be cheap to manufacture. ![]() Secondly, it can be made into any shape desired by designers-much like regular paper, we can mold it into whatever we want. Within LightPaper, there are thousands of tiny diodes each one is nearly the size of a human red blood cell and lights up when a current is run through them.Ī paper-thin LED surface like LightPaper has many unique qualities. Heard of the new Oreo Thins? Well, think thinner. LightPaper is made with a mixture of ink and extremely small LEDs applied to a conductive surface and then sealed between two other thin layers. It is paper-thin and can be used to print a light-up version of, well, just about anything. Rohinni has invented an LED light product aptly named LightPaper. So what’s next? A startup company called Rohinni says, “We print light.” A Paper-Thin LED Light Even so, we’ve only begun to utilize the full capabilities of 3D printing. They are working with several companies to put the cool paper-thin lighting to work, and they expect the first round of products and objects with integrated Lightpaper to go public sometime in 2015.The range of applications for 3D printing are well known, as the technology is already used creatively in foods, metals, ceramics, and even organ transplant surgeries. Rohinni’s ideas for potential applications are plentiful, including lighted wallpaper for hotels, glowing logos on just about anything, and even car headlights. With its low cost and an expected lifespan of 20 years, Lightpaper is on track to displace OLEDs as the future of flexible lighting. But the company says that their forthcoming second version of Lightpaper will not have this flaw. Currently, the LEDs aren’t distributed evenly over the entire printing surface, which can create a type of “twinkling” effect. The process is clever, but not yet perfected. The illuminating ink is then printed onto a substance that conducts electricity. It works by mixing tiny LEDs – each no bigger than a red blood cell – with ink. Rohinni’s method is simple, cheap, quick, and can be produced in large quantities. Appropriately, they have named it Lightpaper.Ĭurrent LED lighting requires soldering LEDs to circuit boards, a process which is expensive and time-consuming as evidenced by the relatively high cost of LED home lighting. Rohinni has created a paper-thin LED light source that needs nothing more than an electrical current to light up. An Idaho-based company called Rohinni has a question for you: what if light was printable? It’s an odd question, for sure, and one that was purely hypothetical until recently. ![]()
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