The shaver, with its orange screen that displays battery life, turned up in the recent James Bond movie Die Another Day.
For next year, Samsung is making a cell phone with the first full-color OLED display, for sale in South Korea, Allen said.
And Kodak is quietly shipping 5cm horizontal OLED screens to a consumer device manufacturer it refused to name.
Those screens, configured in the manner of those used in digital cameras, are the first to use active-matrix technology that can play video, said Daniel Gisser of Kodak's display products unit. The product will emerge in the first half of next year, Gisser said.
Larger screens for handheld computers and video cameras might be ready in a year or two, said Paul O'Donovan, an analyst with Gartner Dataquest.
Prototypes of 38cm and 43cm screens have been cooked up, although none are expected to hit stores for years. O'Donovan said OLED PC monitors might be available in four to five years, televisions in five to 10.
"The trouble is scaling them up," O'Donovan said. "They've got a 6.3cm screen working impressively. The real technological leap will be to expand these into the replacement of TVs."
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