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LG’s flexible OLED lamp has curves in all the right places

LG sexes up the traditional desk lamp with smooth curves and brains to match. Is this the future of desktop lighting? No idea

Esat Dedezade

That’s the best Hot Wheels ramp we’ve ever seen.
You’re not entirely wrong. This would make an excellent ramp. But it is, in fact, a lamp.

I… I love lamp?
We don’t blame you. Quite the electro-luminescent looker, isn’t it?

How do the bulbs squeeze in? It looks thinner than a fasting stick insect.
Ah well, that’s the clever bit you see. There are no bulbs. Light is provided purely by –

– a uranium core?
OLED. Light is beamed out from a flexible OLED panel. While a radioactive desk lamp might sound cool, your DNA replication fidelity would think otherwise.

We love lamp: LG

OLED? As in, phone screens and TV panels?
Yup. The flexible OLED panel used in LG’s funky lamp uses the same tech found in its curved OLED TVs and G Flex bendy smartphone. LG Chem has shown off full-blown lighting solutions in the past, so it’s clearly well on its way to mastering the OLED lighting arts.

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Esat has been a gadget fan ever since his tiny four-year-old brain was captivated by a sound-activated dancing sunflower. From there it was a natural progression to a Sega Mega Drive, a brief obsession with hedgehogs, and a love for all things tech. After 7 years as a writer and deputy editor for Stuff, Esat ventured out into the corporate world, spending three years as Editor of Microsoft's European News Centre. Now a freelance writer, his appetite for shiny gadgets has no bounds. Oh, and like all good human beings, he's very fond of cats.