The ortho-fused aromatic compounds, termed the helicenes, are fascinating molecules whose aromatic framework is rendered helical or spirally coiled due to the inability for conjoined rings to occupy the same plane. As such, the helicenes are one of the few classes of fully conjugated aromatic molecules that display a non-planar, helically chiral, architecture. Carbo- and heterohelicenes have undergone a surge in interest recently due to their unique optical and electronic properties, closely associated with their inherent chirality. This talk will give an overview of our recent exciting preliminary results using helicenes in novel organic electronic devices. We have recently found that by simply doping a conventional light emitting polymer (F8BT) with a small amount of a single handedness helicene, we are able to fabricate circularly polarized (CP) light emitting organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), which emit substantial levels of CP-electroluminescence directly from the polymer; the sign of the CP light corresponding to the handedness of the dopant employed. Furthermore, we have found that organic field effect transistors (OFETs) based on enantiomerically pure 1-aza[6]helicene can be fabricated and importantly can reversibly detect and differentiate CP-light.