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A current obstacle to the widespread adoption of OLEDs is that devices incorporating them are currently expensive. One way to clear that obstacle is by improving manufacturing techniques, which companies are working on; and once those lower-cost components come out, there will need to be objects designed to accomodate them.

The European Union is getting ready for these things by forming CombOLED, an Integrated European Project dedicated to reducing OLED's costs. We designers can't do anything about the cheaper manufacturing stuff--there are R&D geeks working on this around the clock--but ComboLED is sponsoring an OLED Design Contest to get ready for the new tech.

Participants are invited to submit solutions preferably on the following market fields:

- Mood lighting / emotional lighting
- Static signage
- Low-content information display

We know it's kinda tricky to design an object around a technology that hasn't been solidified yet, but hey, no one said design was easy. Prizes for winning designs are in the thousands of Euros which, these days, is a damn sight better than getting paid in dollars. Click here for more info.