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With Apologies to Virginia WoolfOLED’s are the future of efficient lighting and are the smallest way to brighten up a room. On TreeHugger, the people at Osram have had another breakthrough using polymer-OLED lights. OLED lights are organic light emitting diodes. They are a great alternative to CFL’s or Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs. They work great and do not have the mercury like the CFL’s. This provides a much more healthy and environmentally friendly bulb. In 2005 they came out with an OLED that had an efficiency of lumens-per-watt, and today they have created a light with an efficiency of 46 lumens-per-minute with a life of 5000 hours and a brightness more than twice that of a regular incandescent light. And since this comes in such a small, flexible package it will be very useful for designers who design lights for our homes and work places.