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.

Comments

Re:Lcd condoms

[danro]

Not to mention, how the hell is windows democratic?

To my knowledge everything windows is controlled by one single entity, Microsoft, and ultimately by a handful of people (Ballmer, Gates etc.).
And they are, of course, unelected and unaccountable.

I am not saying that for example linux (the most "democratic") is anything but a meritocracy. But when I am faced with a choice between meritocracy and despotism, I choose meritocracy every time.

Re:invisibility

[kippy]

Wait a minute... How is this a troll? This is the best idea for this stuff that i've heard yet! yeah, yeah, all these suggestions about running applications on private parts are cute and all but this actually sounds like a solid idea.