Paintable LCDs

frambooz writes "Nature Magazine has an article about a team from the Eindhoven University of Technology and Philips Research Laboratories in the Netherlands, who discovered a way to create 1 layer paintable LCD-screens. It can be used on glass and plastic already, and fabric in the near future. 'Homes of the future could change their wallpaper from cream to cornflower blue at the touch of a button, says Dirk Broer. His team has developed paint-on liquid crystal displays (LCDs) that offer the technology. (...) The technique could create giant TV screens, digital billboards and walls that change colour. Slim, plastic LCDs sewn into fabric could display e-mail or text messages on your sleeve.' Which leads to another problem: with an LCD-suit, where would you put which app?" There's also an AP article.

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Another great idea we'll never see

[PhysicsGenius]

Must be a slow news day. Sure, this would be a great idea (for "media content" providers, anyway). Trouble is if you actually read the paper[1] you'll find that the paint is highly toxic to humans. So nix the clothing and wall ideas right away. And I don't think OSHA will let any workers near the stuff to apply it anywhere else even if the EPA OK'd it for a billboard-type application.

Ho, hum, another totally useless invention.

[1] Why do so many of the self-professed "science geeks" around here rely on Slashdot for science news rather than reading what real scientists have to say directly in magazines like Nature and Science?