Flexible OLEDs could be part of lighting's future

October 10, 2008 By PETER SVENSSON , AP Technology Writer

(AP) -- On a bank of the Mohawk River, a windowless industrial building of corrugated steel hides something that could make floor lamps, bedside lamps, wall sconces and nearly every other household lamp obsolete. It's a machine that prints lights.

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