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Roll-Up Monitors A Step Closer To Reality
gwernol writes "CNN are covering the merger of two of the leading companies in the field of OLEDs. This brings the dream of flexible plastic monitors and TVs a step closer to fruition.
You can find out more at Cambridge Display Technology who have acquired Opsys. CDT's technology paper on light emitting polymers (in the Research & Technology section of their site) is interesting reading."
Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you - just one word.
Ben: Yes sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Ben: Yes I am.
Mr. McGuire: 'Plastics.'
Ben: Exactly how do you mean?
Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?
Ben: Yes I will.
Mr. McGuire: Shh! Enough said. That's a deal.
This will allow me to get closer to the dream of portable e-books that work like regular books, but it doesn't solve the problem of dog-earing a page to mark it. Dog-earing these simply marks ALL your pages, and that, my friends, is not very useful.....
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If they make these really energy effiecient it will give new meaning to "Rolling a green one".
Color-changing clothes would be cool, but what do you do when your battery pack dies and your clothes go off? :)
That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
The computer used an "avatar" that the user controlled by speaking naturally, as if to a person.
You're sure that it wasn't just a dream about Ask Jeeves again?
Fold up and edible! I could watch Beverly Hillbillies reruns on a bean burrito! Play Quake on a Hot Pocket! Quick -- somebody get me a DARPA grant...
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Before I can build a predator suit out of OLED's?
No, really! The OLEDs are supposedly nontoxic, and capable of being printed onto edible substrates, like rice
paper or fruit leather. Edible gold foil could be used for the wiring. The battery and control chips would of course need to be in a separate module, clearly labelled "Do Not Eat."
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Knowing the price of inkjet cartridges, it'd probably cost more to print your own monitor than buy one.
Yeah, and then every 5 minutes a loud blaring ad would come on for a new Chevy Trailblazer, followed by an Ad for Herpes medication, and followed up with a Burger King ad..
I mean really - look what happened to the net...LOL
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
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The road runner and using this to plaster a fake image of a tunnel enterance over a some brick wall, in hopes that some poor schelp will try running through it...
(And it'll probably be a terrorist too!)
[Now, I'm off to lift my le... Um, visit... at another place.]
The good ol' days of the pr0n centerfold return.
Never thought the pages of my monitor would get mysteriously "glued" together, but once again, technology has an answer.