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Sharp Unveils Glass Computer

Posted by chrisd on from the beef-jerky-based-computing-to-follow dept.

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."

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  1. Yet another dubbel post by YeeHaW_Jelte · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Also seen yesterday on slashdot ...

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  2. Re:Record Time Repeat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    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.

  3. Don't the /. editors read... by Shanep · · Score: 1, Insightful

    /.?

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  4. Autoposter/Autosubmitter by Qbertino · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How many times have /. rejected your write-up of a story and posted an inferior version instead?

    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 /. 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?
    It would add quality, I'm shure. :-)

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