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The Promise Of Transparent Circuits
aaron huslage writes "Research into Transparent Circuits has apparently come a long way lately. 'In a development that could accelerate architectural deployment of see-through surfaces with embedded circuitry, researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology have greatly improved the processing speed of transparent semiconductors, according to a report in the Nov. 25 issue of the journal Nature.' Imagine that your house is your computer!" Or a truly active windshield display in the car.
Or a truly active windshield display in the car.
yay! as if it's not bad enough getting run over by soccermom's in their Navigators.. now they get to look at all the pretty flashy things!!
"imagine that your house is your computer."
Two words: kid, baseball
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
Imagine that your house is your computer!
Yes, now the whole neighborhood will know when I am looking at porn. This is a wonderful idea.
My other computer is a Jacquard loom.
"Or a truly active windshield display in the car."
your stuffed when it blue screens!
moo
Gooooooooooo TIT!
...and Apple will make a computer that looks like a big ice cube.
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Finally! Now the paper I buy at the story can get viruses too! Electronic paper, the last thing I ever thought I might want. But hey, there is a plus to this. We could develop see through clothes with built in heaters right? Back enough transistors into the cloth and it's like your standing inside of a space heater!
-EndBabble
Imagine the horror of dying in a head on collision because a sudden and aggressive Ford popup ad took control of your car stereo's volume control and made you flinch.
simulated film at eleven....
If you think
The product is transparent. Maybe the article was FULL of pictures. How would you know?
Anyway, here's a pic for you:
And now one from the side:
Behold the riant ape! Beware, his crooked thumbs!
"...making it suitable for flat expanses of electronics such as massive display surfaces or walls with embedded networking" Sounds like they're talking about turning movie screens into giant processors.
The question now is what would we want our movie screens to do?
I'm sure this will do wonders for the already outrageous cost of windshield replacements.
And of course there will be the whole aftermarket of MOD'd windshields.
Invalid Checksum. Retrying.
Imagine sheets of this stuff in a book, with a HD, RAM, CPU, wireless nic in the spine. Now you have a book that is any book. No more scrolling, and loosing your place. You use a familliar and powerful user interface that's been with us since the scroll days. Remember what page youre on. Open right to the spot, instead of clicking and scrolling all day. The worst thing about computers today is the display technology. I want digital wallpaper. Watch movies on your living room wall. Setup a slow, subtle screensaver pattern for ur cieling for a date (you remember dates don't you?). Couple this with voice control, and you have one better than Captain Picard's viewscreen (except you don't have his processor, knowledge base, or storage capacity). Make it so.
"Computer. Computer?"
/holds mouse to face
/sees keyboard
"Ah, the keyboard. How quaint."
"Hello computer?"
You have two hands and one brain, so always code twice as much as you think!
The last thing I need is all my windows crashing.
I keep hearing all this feel-good nonsense pushed by companies trying to sell these gadgets.
They keep saying that this new technology will make drivers safer. Yet in reality when this stuff comes to the market, people just find a way to use this stuff that makes them WORSE drivers!
Remember when LCD screens were going to help people navigate? Now they end up missing their turn because they're busy watching TV on the screen that's supposed to be giving them directions.
Remember when cell phones would make travelling safer because you could call a tow truck from the side of the road? Now people just chat away on their phone while driving and they don't pay attention to the road. After they ram their 5,000 lb SUV into a wall they'll need the tow truck for sure, now.
How about we remove all these distractions and make people actually DRIVE their car! While these gadgets have *potential* good uses, in reality nothing is more dangerous than a person not paying attention to what they're doing.
Keep real safety features on a car and do away with the things that make them more dangerous. No watching TV while you're driving, no playing video games, no talking on the phone. Drive.
I wonder how they accomplish this... since a material which is transparent for optical photons should have a very high bandgap (>4eV), i.e. should behave much like an isolator at room temperature.
Has anyone more information about that?
First off the tax break was initially for Vans and trucks.
The goal of the break was to allow farmers and small business witht here purches of need equipment. At that time SUV's were nowhere near the weight they are today, and they weren't seen as a status symbol.
SO the tax break is not now, not has it ever been for 'SUVs'.
They have since changed that tax break considerably.
"...but that would mean inconveniencing SUV users a bit which is the last thing the US wants to do."
Where is your logic in that?
Why would that be true? Get off your knee jerk High horse.
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