Electronics As Plastics

WillSeattle writes: "Well, what goes around comes around. According to a New York Times article (free registration required), 21st century electronics may be based on plastic and other carbon-based molecules, or organic chemicals. "

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Re:What's exactly so wrong with silicon?

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I can think of at least three reasons why people would be interested in a plastic-electronics composite.

• You can make the case for some pretty interesting display technologies if the plastic were flexible enough. For example, I could use a 15" flat display that folded into my Palm.

• Wearable computing would benefit greatly if manufacturers were able to sew plastic "chipsets" directly into your clothing.

• I would imagine that some flexibility will be required if any progress is going to be made towards embedded cybernetics. Consider ligaments and cartiledge, for example, which bear a great deal of resemblence to plastics in their behaviors.

Anyway, I personally excited about the first one. it would really fantastic to be able to pull down a 38" screen a la old movie projector screens.