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."

Comments

I see a connection.

[WilliamsDA]

Sharp... glass computer. Does anyone else see the connection?

uh hunh

[Easy2RememberNick]

Well I have a short attention span anyway, I didn't even notice.
Maybe they're trying to be like CNN Headline news, the same thing over and over and over and over... ..what was I talking about?

This is all part of the karma system

[bLanark]

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/ ?)

Well, this is the payback. Simply note a good story, and try and slip it past /. submission editors a few times to make them look like dweebs. (Hey, has anyone managed to get the same story three times?)

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!

Whoah

[gvonk]

This repeat was predicted by ari_j.

Weird.

Though, you could say that for every article and have a pretty good success rate.

To all complaining of the repeat post...

[GMontag]

People who use glass computers should not throw flames ;-)

Re:Yet another dubbel post

[BoBaBrain]

Clearly there has been a breakdown in communication between the "beef-jerky-based-computing-to-follow" department and the "good-enough-to-lick" department.

Re:Sharp's Glass Computer

[hype7]

Computing on the cutting edge of technology!

Oh come on, it's just a PR stunt. I'm surprised you didn't see right through it.

-- james

/. logic

[CaptainPhong]

while (1) {
foreach $story (@pending_stories) {
next if is_stupid($story);
next if ms_is_good($story);
next if postgres($story) > mysql($story);
cream_shorts() if content($story) eq 'vapor';
(drool() && next) if content($story) eq 'pr0n';
push @repeat_stories, $story if iq($editor) < 80;
post($story);
}
@pending_stories = (@repeat_stories, get_new_stories(@kuhlest_slashdotters));
}

Acronym?

[n8willis]

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?