{"id":312457,"date":"2019-07-05T09:08:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T07:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=312457"},"modified":"2019-07-05T09:09:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T07:09:39","slug":"new-oled-technology-could-make-displays-more-power-efficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/312457-new-oled-technology-could-make-displays-more-power-efficient.html","title":{"rendered":"New OLED technology could make displays more power-efficient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new OLED polarised filter technology is being developed by a team of scientists from the Imperial College of London, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/smartphone-displays-could-become-more-efficient-with-a-new-oled-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>TechRadar<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Filters often are used in displays to reduce glare, but most non-polarised filters also stop some important light from being transmitted through the screen &#8211; resulting in battery power being wasted.<\/p>\n<p>The new technology would see new OLED diplays transmit light through a polarised filter, which ensures that more light reaches the eyes of the user.<\/p>\n<p>The technology could be used in a variety of devices, ranging from smartphones to TVs. It is still being researched however, meaning that it is unlikely to come to consumer devices any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>If it were to arrive, however, it would theoretically ensure that users have brighter displays while using less energy &#8211; a win-win situation that would be appealing to device manufacturers.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/312437-samsung-profit-halves.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Samsung profit halves<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new OLED polarised filter technology is being developed by a team of scientists from the Imperial College of London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":275263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[14969,8109,59847],"class_list":["post-312457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-display","tag-oled","tag-polarised-filter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312473,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312457\/revisions\/312473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}