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Electronic Paper Plant to be Built in Germany
Aqua_boy17 writes "BBC News is reporting today that Cambridge based firm PlasticLogic is set to build the world's first manufacturing facility dedicated to producing plastic circuits. In particular the company is focused on developing flexible plastic circuits that cost much less than silicon and would soon enable electronic paper devices that could be used to store large amounts of text and other data. The company has secured $100 million in venture capital and is set to build its first facility in Dresden, Germany. Construction of the facility should be completed by 2008 according to the article. Industry experts expect market demand for this technology to approach $30 billion by the year 2015."
The summary contradicts the headline :-S
Tissue paper eh ? The next time I play with my secretary in the back of my car, I'll think twice before wiping our privates with Kleenex... I could be destroying vital data ( besides the DNA information contained in millions of spermatozoids )
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In which case you have an extremely low sperm count. The human genome contains 3 billion base pairs which (as it's base 4) comes to about 4*(3*10^9)=12billion bits and there are roughly 280 million tadpoles in each puddle of love so actually your total data output is about 3,360,000,000,000,000,000 bits or 2.9 exabytes of data.
No, not a low sperm count. 99% of the information i.e. of the spermatozoids is still *inside* of the secretary when I wipe.
Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace