World's First Completely Transparent IC

An anonymous reader writes "DeviceForge is reporting that researchers at Oregon State University claim to have created the worlds first 'completely transparent' ICs (integrated circuit) from inorganic compounds. From the article: 'The technology can enable extremely inexpensive electronics for use in "throw away" devices, and is expected to be used in automobile windshields, cell phones, TVs, games, and toys, among other applications, OSU said. OSU also believes that the technology might result in more efficient solar cells or improvements and LCD displays (liquid crystal displays), it said.'"

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Young Rick Presley: In the Image of Jack Kilby

[Anonymous Coward]

Read the full story about this amazing team of researchers at Oregon State University (OSU). What is even more amazing than the invention itself is that researchers of modest backgrounds (i.e. no Ivy-League or Stanford pedigree) at a modest university (i.e. no MIT or UC-Berkeley) developed an awesome breakthrough, leapfrogging the teams of foreign-educated foreign students at UCLA.

Note that the brains behind the invention was born into a rural, farming community. Young Rick Presley spent more time rearing pigs and goats than building the latest high-tech PC from parts purchased at Fry's Electronics.

Folks, what we have here is a fine example of Yankee ingenuity and the makings of another Jack Kilby. Kilby also grew up in a rural community and attended a modest university. He went on to invent the transistor.

The lesson here is that a quality environment with good people who have a good set of values is much more conducive to creating a 1st-world society than a high-tech environment with very-bright but dishonest people who lack any moral values. Taiwan may be the high-tech capital of the world with the highest density of high-performance notebook computers, but the quality of life in Taiwan is substantially below that in Sweden.