Imagine walking into the room of tomorrow... no need to reach for a light switch; the walls are already gently glowing with scenes of an undersea paradise. Hit the remote and one wall transforms into a floor-to-ceiling TV screen or the backdrop to the newest video game.
Sound like a dream? Engineers at Japan's Toshiba corporation are well on the way to making it reality.
The crux of the biscuit is the wallpaper. Not just ANY wallpaper, of course, this is a specially developed material that utilizes flexible OLED (organic electroluminescence) screen technology to emit light in a controlled manner.
Anything from a featureless glow that serves as room lighting to action-packed movies, TV programs and computer games is possible.