OLED display
2 stories filed under OLED display on Spoot: Spotted Early. The newest of them: “The iPad Mini Sheds Weight, Gains OLED and a Whole New Reason to Stare” and “Kevin Noki's 3D-printed brick phone is a Bluetooth handset for the distraction-proof”. The new iPad mini is thinner, lighter, faster, and has an OLED display that makes everything you do on it feel like you're holding the good light. Nineteen physical keys, a slab of 3D-printed plastic, and the audacity to make you hang up on your own century. Spoot: Spotted Early New things, caught while they're still new and a little weird. Spoot finds fresh gadgets, clever inventions, crowdfunding campaigns,… The list below is every OLED display story on Spoot: Spotted Early, newest first.
The iPad Mini Sheds Weight, Gains OLED and a Whole New Reason to Stare
The new iPad mini is thinner, lighter, faster, and has an OLED display that makes everything you do on it feel like you're holding the good light. Apple shed some serious weight from this thing, and the screen upgrade alone is a reason to stare at it for longer than you probably should. It's a small device that now asks bigger questions about how much you actually need a full-sized tablet. I'm genuinely curious whether this becomes the daily carry that quietly replaces everything else in your bag. For another kind of pocketable utility at a very different price point, our piece on the Gerber Suspension NXT multi-tool covers a tool that costs less than lunch.
Kevin Noki's 3D-printed brick phone is a Bluetooth handset for the distraction-proof
Nineteen physical keys, a slab of 3D-printed plastic, and the audacity to make you hang up on your own century. Kevin Noki has recreated the 1980s brick phone as a Bluetooth handset for the distraction-proof, a chunky, tactile middle finger to the infinite scroll. It pairs with your iPhone but gives you nothing to stare at. No screen. No notifications. Just the pure, almost forgotten act of answering a call and hanging up when you're done. The keys are real. The weight is probably absurd. And that's the whole point. Noki isn't selling a gadget; he's selling a permission slip to be unreachable for a few minutes.