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Light Emitting Pictures On Standard Inkjet Printer

Posted by timothy on from the the-media-cost-is-where-they-getcha dept.

CrashRide writes: "This story on FOX states that UofA scientists have discovered a way to print light-emitting pictures on thin sheets of plastic using a standard inkjet printer. Fold up pocket monitors?" The article says that these scientists have produced "OLEDs of simple bands of light, a scorpion, the University of Arizona logo and even photographs of themselves."

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  1. The Cost? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Insightful
    So I can run my $72 photo inkjet with an $800 print cartridge!

    This is the Gilette model: "Give 'em razors, charge for blades!"

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  2. Re:Not a fold-up monitor by dollargonzo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    well, looking at it that way, neither is a liquid crystal display. i think the idea they were trying to get at is that if yuo wire it up such that the light emission of the sheet can be varied (hence the "turns electrical energy into light" phrase in the article). the problem is never how to make it a display, but rather what to do with the surface that is supposed to emit light. before it was CRT, now LCD, next: lightup sheets?

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  3. Re:Not a fold-up monitor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yes, why is it that every time some new printing technology is mentioned on /. someone equates it immediately with a computer display? If static images could be made into moving ones that easily, we would have holographic TV already. Please, stop putting these foolish rash conclusions in Slashdot summaries.

  4. Important News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Fuck the University of Arizona's computer science department right in the ass.

  5. Glowing Walls? by Lally+Singh · · Score: 5, Insightful
    How about getting drywall presprayed with this stuff? Then you just run a small wire down to your light switch and the ceiling (or all the walls) light up. Power usage down, no need for lamps!


    And most importantly, it'll look like those cool futuristic movies from the 1960s!

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  6. Spiffy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Y'know this is kewl and all, but it's just what we need: more light! It's bad enough we have enough excess light to see most of the US from orbit. Before we start postering the earth and chroming the moon, let's at least figure out that street and highway lights should point down. Not into the atmosphere.

    Anyone who has lived in the city and moved to the country or vice versa knows what I mean.

    Light Posters?! Yippee. Once this tech becomes available to the yokel population we're going to see huge self lit billboard along the highway. Hope you don't need to see while you drive.

    Anonymous cynic