The Stuff that Shapes Industries and Rocks the World

Yes quite a claim. But take a look at the image below. That thin film layer will have more impact on technology and hence our world equivalent to the microprocessor.

Awww come on Dog, you have to be kidding me. Nope. Couple of examples –

• Print. As a substitute for pulp paper. Remember the image can be static till rewritten. No longer do you go down to Staples an buy boxes of paper. You buy a box of film and reuse it thousands of times. The ‘printer’ no longer uses ink so there are no consumables to buy. The printer also can be your scanner as well. What can be written to the substrate can also be read off to your compute device. Talk about green technology!
• Displays. No more LCD with a 1″ thick frame. The display is paper thin. So a 1/4″ backer frame for stiffness is all that is needed. A display could be wrap around like Dell displayed at CES. Nor would glass yields be an issue for display sizes.
• DTV. Imagine coming home from Home Depot with what looks like a roll of wallpaper. You unroll it and paste it to the wall. You glue a transducer to the bottom corner that is fed to your HTS. You just installed your 120″ color display. Its a future I grant, the technology is not quite up to snuff for the refresh rates. But the theory is sound.
• Advertising. Couple EInk technology with WiMax. Signage technology right out of Minority Report. Speed signs that post the applicable rates adjusting for night and day. Much more sophiscated and user customizable automobile instrumentation in the dash.

The kind of technology is transformative in nature. Besides cost and refresh rates the lack of color has been a restricting factor to widespread adoption. Well Cool Gadgets reports that this technical hurdle has been broached. EInk, has cooked a deal with LG, a large compute display mfr to codevelop the technology.

This is the stuff that rocks the world.