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Sharp Unveils Glass Computer
thug writes "Moscow Times: Sharp Corp., Japan's largest maker of liquid crystal displays, unveiled a screen Tuesday with microprocessor circuitry applied directly onto the glass, enabling it to function like a computer. Shumpei Yamazaki, president of unlisted Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Ltd., Sharp's partner in the project, compared the challenge of putting processor circuitry on glass to "building a skyscraper on rubber." But he said glass offered several advantages over silicon, including lower temperatures for production, so that faster metal gates could be used for its transistors."
Also seen yesterday on slashdot ...
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Sharp... glass computer. Does anyone else see the connection?
"Are you being weird, or sarcastic?" said Emma. I said I didn't know because I get the two feelings mixed up.
I want to see them melt. You can make nice sculptures melting glass: I was born not too far from Venice, and I have seen how they do it in Murano. Overclocking will be then rightly called a form of art.
Hey, look on the bright side guys, at least CmdrTaco didn't post the same article twice, I think we've seen that before ;)
Well I have a short attention span anyway, I didn't even notice. ..what was I talking about?
Maybe they're trying to be like CNN Headline news, the same thing over and over and over and over...
Computing on the cutting edge of technology!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/22/121521 1&mode=thread&tid=137
I actually welcome some double posts, sometimes i miss the really cool articles the first time around, like this one. Lighten up people, it happens, doesnt hurt anyone, and your getting it for free.
Perhaps scientists and engineers should consider porous silicon rather than glass (well, at least at this stage in the game [glass infancy]).
I remember recently reading about a new sensor based on porous silicon. Apparently, it has a unique metallization process that is very sensitive. Moreover, it uses less power and is, overall, cheaper to create and maintain.
There's a nice article at http://unisci.com/stories/20021/0313025.htm that touches on some of these issues. It should make for a good read, especially if you're not a total expert on silicon applications in engineering.
How many times have /. rejected your write-up of a story and posted an inferior version instead? (Generally for one with unneccessary urls like the home page of the news site as well as a link to the story on the news site; who can't edit out story.pl?artid=423423 to get to http://www.site.com/ ?)
/. submission editors a few times to make them look like dweebs. (Hey, has anyone managed to get the same story three times?)
Well, this is the payback. Simply note a good story, and try and slip it past
It also gives you a chance to steal those insightful comments from the first article post and max out on karma without getting "-1 redundant", so we all can win! - Last to +5 insightful is a dinosaur egg!
Note to ACs: I won't mod you up, even if you are being funny or insightful. So take a chance! It's not real life!
This repeat was predicted by ari_j.
Weird.
Though, you could say that for every article and have a pretty good success rate.
El Karma: excelente(principalmente la suma de moderación hecha a los comentarios de los usuarios)
I'm just waiting for karma whores to go mine for +5 posts... *sigh*
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War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
is here. It has much more interesting content, including some specifications, the fact that they have filed 330 related patent applications, some info about the process of making the displays and finally some images :) Now someone who wants to ride around and avoid breaking any of the 330 patents will have to be very careful. Infact, some might think that Sharp is actually slowing down the development with this invention and making it harder for others to enter the market.
Visible computing, all open-source right down to the electron traces.
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Is it just me, or are there an awful lot of cries of 'redundant'? One would have sufficed...
Great to see this getting modded up - it's like going to Microsoft and explaining that you really welcome the new license changes, and that the many hidden features are a real boon to your productivity. :-)
Try NetBSD... safe,straightforward,useful.
Simply re-submit every story appearing on Slashdot a day later and your name gets on the frontpage in two weeks.
Wow a computer etched on glass - reminds me of Minority Report ... WAIT A MINUTE! As the sports writer says: "It's deja vous all over again!"
Nurse - more medication!
People who use glass computers should not throw flames ;-)
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...lead to lazy karma whores.
I am a Karma Library.
Those OPen something guys are giving us the same software again and again without much changes, these guys have changed so much. Stop complaining okay. Havent you noticed that most of the gramatical bugs have been fixed!
If you cant contribute atleast dont complain. These guys have fixed part of the bugs, tommorow they will fix all, so be patient.. and look now dont start a K5//. thing here like those KD Gsomething ppl always do whenever a new release comes out. :P
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Yeah, hats off to the guys at Sharp R&D - only yesterday they were announcing a glass computer. Err, hang on a minute.
Try NetBSD... safe,straightforward,useful.
And use it to read Slashdot before posting duplicate stories.
One of these devices is already being used to mirror slashdot.
Ahh - My eye!
The doctor said I'm not supposed to get Slashdot in it!
Exactly as predicted.
How many times have /. rejected your write-up of a story and posted an inferior version instead?
/. for new posts every 30 seconds or so, and, at last, you could have a web interface for the whole thing with an own community using it. Maybe call it Meta-Slashdot? :-)
10^10Zillion times.
I'm thinking of building an autoposter with dynamically generated filling phrases for each topic. It would make things easier.
Maybe with multiple accounts support. Each account could mod all others up and have it's own DB of random typos, and when one gets blocked from modding by censor it would autmatically generate a new one. You could also build in a post-tracker to avoid double posts and a dialectic analysis option than automatically generates interessting threads with controverse opinions. You could set values for agressiveness, wisdom or talkativeness of each account, or the average amount of Star-Trek, Star-Wars and Monyt Python quotes and a "Beowulf" option. It would also have a set of "goatseX" and "Tableblaster" scanner/filter accounts.
You could assign an account to the "first poster" slot that would check
It would add quality, I'm shure.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Beowulf: /. trying to cluster their posts in some kind of hideous plot against humanity? Could this be an alliance with Sharp?
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Imagine getting a beowulf cluster of glass PCs!
Profit:
1. Post Story
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3. Goto 1
4. Profit!
or
1. Make glass PC
2. Work out use of having fragile, slow, highly heat-sensitive PC
3.
4. Profit!
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I am a meat popsicle.
You're preaching to the choir my man!
My company's been waiting too long for Sharp to get their act together, and what we're offered now just doesn't cut it!
To hell with it! I'm in the market for 100,000 XTs - anyone wanna bite?
Yesturday, they were looking from one side of the glass, today we're obviously looking from the other side
Can somebody get me a broom?
is it half empty, or half full?
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
"But i swear its not a flashback. really".. :)
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Holy sweet Jesus, I was freaking out. I was warned there could be flash backs. Gee, I kinda wish now I could flash back, to a kinder more gentle time, and stay there.
PegQuin--I've got a sneakin' suspicion
Prices on XTs are going through the roof. Plenty of folks were holding out for this cutting edge technology from Sharp. Now that the perfomance figures are in and we can see what a dog it is everyone's rushing to build their clusters.
I've got a cool half million mix PC/XT stashed away. But I needs them all, heh heh!
It's made of glass, so it's bound to reflect something, say previous stories?
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Ah I stand corrected thanks - And to be totally English about it, I can't spell in French either, Duh!
Nurse - let's cut down on the medication a bit.
What's that they say about people who live in glass houses, and use Windows computers?
sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
It's because they stay away 24/7 drinking coke to deliver you with the latest headlines
Don't you people see what's going on here?
CmdrTaco already has this computer on a glass thing. With the help of three pre-cogs, he uses this machine to see what will happen in the future (a la Minority Report). He saw that this story was going to be posted today.
He posted the story yesterday to predict what is going to happen, at the same time to brag that he has this computer-on-glass.
Got that?
...will gain new meaning when you drop it :)
The company's name is Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Ltd., and it's unlisted? Why, did they think investors would be put off from purchasing a stock whose ticker symbol was SELL?
-- Watch the REAL Jon Katz.
I had this wonderful idea for a bit of code that we can add to slashcode. It is a tool for finding previous posts to verify if a cool new post truly is new.. We could call it the CowboyNeal anti-post-duplication algorithm. Then I realized something, they already have a search bar that can do that....
Sigs? We don't need no stinking sigs!
than one called Sharp to release a glass computer.
'Computer-On-Glass' Display is on the SAME FREAKING PAGE as this. I could try to forgive you if they were at least a LITTLE separated.
shouldn't code stones.
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http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,106247,
Sharp is showing off an LCD with a built-in CPU, and plans to use it in a new breed of mobile display devices by 2005.
Sharp and its partner Semiconductor Energy Laboratory unveiled Tuesday what the companies claim to be a world-first prototype of an LCD with an 8-bit CPU on its glass substrate.
Sharp runs computer on piece of glass
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/22/1034561
Japan's leading liquid crystal display maker Sharp Corp said yesterday it had made an "epoch-making" step toward making ultra-flat "sheet computers" after it succeeded in running a computer on a tiny piece of glass.
The prototype it unveiled was a functioning tiny circuit board - from a Sharp central processing unit (CPU) originally made in 1977 - imprinted on a piece of glass some 15 millimetres square and one millimetre thick.
Running a PC on a piece of glass
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/technews/178311.htm
Japan's leading liquid crystal display maker Sharp Corp. said on Tuesday it had made an "epoch-making" step toward making ultra-flat "sheet computers" after it succeeded in running a computer on a tiny piece of glass.
The prototype it unveiled was a functioning tiny circuit board - from a Sharp central processing unit (CPU) originally made in 1977 - imprinted on a piece of glass some 15 millimeters (0.6 inches) square and one millimeter thick.
You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?
I would like to reproduce what has repeatedly reappeared in these replies: this story is a repeat.
Does anybody else get a picture in their head of some proud new computer owners (a father and son perhaps). They are carrying their large screen glass computer from the car into the house when....splat, a bird dropps a bomb on it from 100 feet above leaving a dirty mess and one unhappy pappy.
Are there any pictures of this thing out there?
~ now you know
It's been said that certain government agencies have the capacity to sit outside your home with a speical IR scope, and record the impulses of data across an LCD or CRT (better used with LCD) screen, and reconstruct the images being produced on said screen.
Is it conceivable that the same sort of technology could be used to reproduce the very data being processed by these devices? I mean, if they can track (with enough precison) the flow of electrons through the device...
And another thing, is this the start of those nifty Star Trek PADDs (Personal Access and Display Devices) we all have come to know and love?
Thoughts?
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Better not eat it, though. You might ruin the Slim Jim RC5 team's chances at winning.
that that is is that that is not is not
Thanks to sandy highways, my windshield has had chips on it for 10 years!!
(Ba dum BING!)
Why stick up for big business?
This guy is now well know for going to conferences, learning about new technology, then doing some rush 'research' and filing tons of patents with his 'partner,' Sharp. Then, they go out and try to get 'licensing fees' from other companies.
Take a look at United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit or Semiconductor Energy Laboratory LABORATORY CO., LTD. v. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.,
This guy is a leach that does no real research. I just can't respect him.
If silicon is replaced with glass boards, will this mean we won't have to worry anymore about static bursts ruining boards?
Yes, that means I'm one step closer to getting a computer tattooed on my ass!
There are more details at eetimes -- it's a Z80 running at 3 MHz (8 bits, 13k transistors) in a 3 micron process (0.09 micron is the next step in silicon processes). The glass computer works as fast as the original 1970's version did on silicon. They played an old game on the system... I wonder what it was!
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Perhaps this is a ploy by the editors of slashdot to increase their ad space/click throughs.
can you make a bong out of it?
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
Because if this thing crashes, you have to buy a whole new computer.
I'm an avenging angel of metamoderation, and I shall strike down with righteous fury and furious righteousness the humorless bastard that modded you down, because he didn't laugh. I laughed.
Don't mod down as Offtopic if you don't laugh. Don't mod down as Overrated or Troll if you disagree. Don't abuse the moderation system. Or one of us will find you, and remove you from the pool.
Watch out for new DoS attacks involving high-pitched noises.
Just think: script kiddies teaming up with operatic sopranos. The thought is almost too horrifying to contemplate.
Does this mean we finally get those funky transparent memory modules which ran HAL which Dave Bowman pulled out to lobotomise him?
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humorous
rain and strip mines and] two or three minutes of mechanical confusion, the
seats locomote through a short tunnel filled with clock-work dinosaurs.
The dinosaurs are depicted without accuracy and too close to your face.
"One of the few real novelties at Epcot is the use of smell to
aggravate illusions. Of course, no one knows what dinosaurs smelled like,
but Exxon has decided they smelled bad.
"At the other end of Dino Ditch
message about facing challengehood tomorrow-wise. I dozed off during this,
but the import seems to be that dinosaurs don't have anything to do with
energy policy and neither do you."
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