printable memory!
April 6th, 2009 by Ψ*ΨOne of the many reasons carbon-based electronics are becoming so hot is that the processing can be dirt cheap. Case in point: roll-to-roll printing! Costs so little that newspapers can afford it. Recently, Thin Film Electronics and InkTec managed to produce some roll-to-roll printed memory! Sounds like they use a ferroelectric polymer sandwiched between electrodes. Here’s the press release–much thanks to fantastic plastic for pointing this gem out!
[1] Uh…maybe I shouldn’t mention newspapers in the current economic climate.
The way this will develop: the World State government will be eventually tattoo newborns with carbon-based circuitry that requires no batteries to operate and that records and transmits the thoughts and activities and location of the person at all times
you’re probably right. kittens should be safe, though, so i won’t have to worry about my children
you are deluding yourself if you hope that the World Government will not make a use of remotely-controlled kittens.
It’s the remote controlled captions you have to watch out for.
OOH! We could make light, flexible displays and attach them to kitties!
Maybe your kittehs are more compliant than mine, but attaching captions sounds nontrivial. Glue or nails would probably suck for them and for me.
“Gimme a D!” “Gimme an I!” “Gimme an E!” At least I’d have warning.
All cars sold have flight recorders accessible to authorities and insurance companies. Homeland Severity must demand it for citizens, too. Add a sub rosa ex post facto back door. Never allow a trial before the verdict is determined – that is why the IRS has separate courts and no juries.
“We shall abolish the orgasm”, 1984, George Orwell. SSRIs. QED.
1) If they knew how to remotely control a kitten, human mind control would be a snap.
2) Newspapers are kind of like everything else – they keep cutting what they give without cutting the price and then wonder why people don’t buy. The local crappy newspaper has cut some of its (nonlocal reporting), charges online, and probably is still doing poorly. The Clinton impeachment thing (a politically motivated witchhunt, IMO) indicated that papers’ investigative reporting is not so good, and some of the other problems (Jayson Blair, for example), bring into question their willingness to be news organs of record. If I want opinions and politics backed by apathy towards truth and facts, there are lots of places to find them, and most of them are free.
I would like printable electronics if booklike objects which could be used as terminals to replace paper journals could be made from them. I don’t want to read C+E News on the computer (much as they would like me to) because magazines have portability advantages that my computer does not, but I don’t need paper that I’m just going to throw away, anyway.
Well, we do have the Kindle…I think the future will see such devices become much smaller and much more portable.
The Kindle’s sort of pricy. I don’t know how much the magazine subscriptions on it cost, but that could be pricy, also.
Because of the DRM limitations (books have to make money for their publishers, and they can’t if everyone can easily distribute them), it’s tough to have one reader that will read all (otherwise, one hack could break them all). The reader’s will probably come down in price, but having to have multiple readers counteracts some of the advantages.
readers The bad punctuation virus is spreading.
When I was looking at postdocs, I talked to a guy who implanted electrodes into rats, could tell from the signals which direction in a maze the rat intended to go, and could make it go the other way. Or without bothering to see what the rat was thinking, he could just make it go. It was fascinating, but weirded the hell out of me.
How this would translate to kitties, I don’t know. I suspect my cats would turn my unholy contraption on me if I tried it.
boring.
The people demand more chemical rhetoric posts!
you want chemical rhetoric? You can’t handle chemical rhetoric.
A cheap anti-HIV reverse transcriptase inhibitor Efavirenz is a powerful super-addictive dissociative dope when smoked – something like opium laced with hashis. In South Africa the abuse became an epidemic and the HIV patients make living by re-selling their meds on the street.
I love these high-end science done results done by fairly low-tech and inexpensive ways. My favorite is the group that had organics of different types and made circutry by having each as an ink in a HP laserjet printer.
I agree, Fetz.
I really like the fact that printable electronics, as it comes into existence, flies right in the face of things like atomic layer construction of devices.
Sure, the printed electronics isn’t of the same quality, but the fact that you can squirt something, dissolved in something else, and get transistor action out of it that is actually useful, is amazing to me.
Chemistry rules,