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  1. Rolltronics memory by Animats · · Score: 2 · on Start the Presses: Printable Circuits Nearly Ready

    Actually, Rolltronics does claim a memory technology on their site. The technology description is rather vague, but the general idea seems to be to sandwich a huge array of tiny LEDs together with light-sensitive capacitive elements that do the actual storage.

  2. Mass Memory by Megawatt-hour · · Score: 3, Informative · on Start the Presses: Printable Circuits Nearly Ready

    Perusing Rolltronics' web site I came across this interesting nugget:

    Multilevel Organic Solid State Memory

    It seems you can stack up these sheets and make very dense memory out of it. Here is a quote from the article:

    "They will be available in different form factors, ranging from single sheets where minimum thickness is important to stacks which can easily be put into a product that offers a terabyte of storage in a package no bigger than a pad of paper."

    Appropriately enough, the author's name is Dr. Sheats.

  3. OEL or OLED? by malachid69 · · Score: 5 · on Sony's OEL Thinner And Better Than Today's LCDs?
    They just changed the acronymn. Do a search for OLED and you will find lots of other places doing the same thing -- examples: This technology has a lot of potential. In my previous post about designing VR hardware, I was thinking the OLEDs would be a good way to do the screens. However, I don't think Sony should be changing the acronymn to sound like their own technology. It is exactly the same thing.
  4. Re:Has anyone thought of... by SIWaters · · Score: 1 · on $10 Paper Mobile Phone To Launch This Year
    The poster missed one of the main points of the disposable phone, which is that, in order to manufacture it, an entirely different process is used. You simply can't use surface-mount components in this application, so there shouldn't be much, if any impact on the demand for conventional components. There's more information on (what I think is) the manufacturing process at the Rolltronics site. Rolltronics has patents on what they call roll-to-roll manufacturing technology. They appear to be the similar techniques.

  5. Anybody actually read rolltronics.com? by Wraithlyn · · Score: 1 · on Cringley: Chip Manufacturing To Radically Change
    I see a lot of people scoffing at the idea of making a fast computer on a plastic substrate. If you go to rolltronic's web site, and read their product info page, you will see that they don't talk about making a full blown computer anywhere. They talk mainly about display and memory applications. The one small paragraph they have about "Transistors, circuits and semiconductor devices" talks about tiny, flexible ID tags in packages, clothing, etc.

    So before you go dismissing this technology, try checking out what they're really trying to do with it instead of buying the Cringely article.. which seems a bit on the sensationalist journalist side.