How To Make Electronic Displays With Mood Ring Ink

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 1, 2009 @06:30AM from the cheap-tricks-are-the-best-kind dept.

Soychemist writes "Print some thermochromic ink onto a sheet of paper, put metal heating elements on the other side, and you have a rudimentary color-changing display. Chemists in the Whitesides Group at Harvard think that the devices could be used to provide a simple readout from cheap medical tests and kits that check water for pollutants. In the past year, the same scientists have made a three-cent medical test and improvised a centrifuge with an egg beater. Their aim is to invent useful gizmos with everyday materials."

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The real article behind this by wrmrxxx · 2009-08-01 14:24 · Score: 3, Informative

The summary links to Wired, which in turn links to the real article with the interesting details: http://www.rsc.org/delivery/_ArticleLinking/DisplayHTMLArticleforfree.cfm?JournalCode=LC&Year=2009&ManuscriptID=b905832j&Iss=Advance_Article