New High-Tech OLED Passports Coming Soon?

It's amazing how the world of technology keeps moving us towards a world similar to something that you would find in a Star Trek or Flash Gordon movie. Today, thanks to the great site Gizmodo, I was reminded of that fact with a post on an exciting development on an otherwise boring subject - passports.

Yuppers, it now seems that we all may soon be treated to a new type of futuristic passport, namely the OLED high-tech kind! Yes, even though it was announced about a year ago, as you can see in the above YouTube video clip, good old Samsung has just recently demoed an actual working animated, super thin, flexible electronic-passport, and one, that to me anyway, seems just about as futuristic as anything that you would see in a good science fiction flick!

Another cool thing about this futuristic OLED wonder e-passport, is that it requires virtually no batteries what-so-ever! Thats because this amazing passport apparently works wirelessly! Like is that cool, or what?

You betcha it's cool and not only that, I would also tend to think that it's the type of passport that would be very, very hard to fake. So, make that one for the good guys, and a strike against the bad guys, and that especially includes you Bin Ladden!

Also, I would think that this type of high-tech e-passport would be also able to have imbedded in it's chip all sorts of other useful information as well, such as your medical history. That's great in the event of an emergency, as any hospital or medical staff would be easily able to access if your diabetic, or allergic to something, or what have you? Knowing what, if any, medications that you took could also be, as MasterCard would say - priceless.

Of course, some are always going to complain about possible privacy issues, but to me, if I was in a medical crisis I really don't think I would care if that information meant the difference between life and death. Also, I would also tend to think that such an e-passport would be so much easier to update. Imagine just walking into the passport office and having your photo and personal information wirelessly updated. No doubt, and most likely too, you wouldn't even need to go to any office, but could have it all done, at home, simply and electronically via the net! Now that would be convenient.

So, are these high-tech OLED wonder passports coming soon?

Hell if I know, but I sure think that its safe to say that Samsung and others are not working on these conceptual passports simply because their bored. Of course, as exciting as these concepts are, at this point, their just that, concepts. Even though these animated OLED passports are not quite as cool as an animated holographic passport would be or anything, but they are pretty dang-tooting close, and I only hope that we not only see them, but see them soon.

And that's my 2 cents 4 this Friday, June 19, 2009