Start the Presses: Printable Circuits Nearly Ready

akookieone writes: "MIT Tech Review has an article on Rolltronics (first appearing in /. a year ago). Seems they can now print circuits 10 micrometers across, and are thinking they could 'very shortly' move from R&D to production."

Comments

A whole new line in T-Shirts!

[Sobrique]

Watch, as I wear a circuit board.
And verily, those little LED's that are flashing are part of a binary adder.
It's one up on a T-Shirt with perl code or Pi on it :)

Interesting stuff .... I feel his geek pride

[lcorc79]

He proudly unpacks the company's demo unit: ......

Ok, so the demo is lame. I can just see his big dorky grin as he gets all excited about his little blinking LED. Reminds me of my past ... science fairs, etc. -- and gives me a frightening glimpse into my future. *sigh* I think I need to get out more.

Anyway, this does sound cool .. the reduction of costs for things like LCD panels could make a lof our cool dream gadgets become an affordable reality ... I just hope the economy doesn't end up killing this research ..

Finally, an infinite supply of white T-shirts...

[Shenyang]

...each with its own clever phrase for that day. I wonder how long it will be before someone offers a "full-service" laundromat with T-shirts made of this material. Take your T-shirts to the cleaners, and get them back with a fresh supply of clever phrases for the next month. Of course the upload mechanism will be encrypted so you have to go back to get another batch of fresh clever phrases. This could give a hi-tech twist to the old saying..."no ticket, no laundry".

XEROX

[Anonymous Coward]

Can I copy ur circuit in the xerox machine out there ? 10 cents a copy, will honor your copyrights.

Re:Cool technology

[Rentar]

And great for people who want to play with circuits, but don't have a way to fab their own chips. Which is pretty much all of us. We can now go along and make our own Z80 and 6502 derivatives running at a slower speed then the original, but very light and plasticy. Sounds like great fun.

I don't know which fact I should find more alerting:

• That I read a site where ppl post such things
• That I understand what you are saying
• That I agree on the "Sounds like great fun."-part.

Heh

[bshuttleworth]

Forget having a T-Shirt with the DeCSS code on it, plug a DVD into one sleave and the Computer into the other ... =p

Heck! should name it Geek Wallpaper!

[itsnotme]

Heck.. now you can go to a wallpaper store and say.. I want the geek wallpaper and they'll probably pull out a coupla rolls of this for ya to use! and heck it'll even do SOMETHING too!

Moderation points: Funny: +1

Great

[foo fighter]

Like I don't have enough printer support headaches at work already.

I can just imagine the calls I'll be getting from my boss now:

"Foo Fighter, my printer is smearing my traces all over the place. Could you come by and clean it so I can finish printing my new Palm?"

Or:

"Foo, I was printing my PowerPoint slide show, but the headlines are blinking red instead of blue. And the line chart on page three only animates halfway, then stops. Could you get over here right away and fix this?"

Or:

"Those nanobots I printed and released into the fish tank to monitor polution yesterday have eaten my goldfish. Could you come up with some new nanobots to eat the bad nanobots?"

Great. Just Great.

Re:Cool technology

[Winged Cat]

Probably the second. ^_-