Nanotech Brings Cheap Flat TVs From Diamond Dust

neutron_p writes "Nanotech scientists are going to develop new TV display technology made from diamond dust. It opens up the possibility of cheaper and more power efficient flat panel displays, for use in wide screen digital TVs and many other applications. Toshiba recently announced plans to launch a television based on a new flat-panel display technology called SED (Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display) in 2005. Sony and others have been working for several years on another technology called FED (Field Emission Display) but that too has yet to reach commercialization."

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Re:So informative

[confusion]

I thought I had clicked on the wrong link at first. It is completely devoid of anything useful.

Jerry
http://www.syslog.org/

What a perfect use of new technology.

[Canthros]

Bring stupidity into my living room with crystal clarity. I can't wait.

Re:Cheap?

[kesuki]

Diamonds are actually cheap they come from one of the most common elements, carbon... DeBerrs controls 80% of the worlds gem quality diamond productions, and they refuse to sell more gem quality diamonds that the number of engagments in a year... they actually cut supply below demand*, thus making the price inflate. as an industrial material, cutting diamonds and diamond dust are market priced by more conventional market forces, and since most diamonds that come out of a mine are not gem quality, that makes industrial grade diamond products relatively affordable.

*= Yes I'm aware, Russia and canada are also producing gem quality diamonds, but those mines can't exactly afford to flood the market so far that diamonds plummet in value, because thier mines have less diamonds than the debeer's mines.

Best line ever

[Phrogman]

One of the cleverest plays on words I ever heard was in regards to DeBeers during the Apartheid years in SA:

"You bring DeBeers, and lets have Apartheid!"

Wish I could remember who originated it...

RTFA

[marcus]

If you had RTFA, you'd know that no one here knows more than you do know. ;-) The linked piece was nothing but fluff, no substance at all. Here's a summary:

"Nanotech is great. Diamonds are great. Venture capitalists are great. Flat screens are great. We are going to be rich!

1) Nanotech
2) Diamond dust
3) Flat screens
4) Profit!"

What's missing is something worth reading.

Re:In other breaking news!

[hobbesx]

I think I'm allergic to all this vapor

Note to self: Check sig before posting smart-ass comments in the future.

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