Plastic circuitry!!

[DotCommunist]

This looks very promising.

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040131/fob1.asp

I think there must be something of a race going on here, I was alerted to this potentialy brilliant development by the local news. Cambridge Uni have apparently made some leap forward in the field. They are predicting the first 'datapad' style gizmo by 2008. I can't wait. Not only will I be able to carry a library's worth of text on one flexible, lightweight datapad, I'll also be able to download my newspapers direct and stop wasting paper. Overall there will be far less paper wastage, and that can only be a good thing

Ah here we are. The cambridge info

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040131/fob1.asp


The future is finally here!!

 

[Bob_the_lost]

It's PLED, a variation on OLED that looks very promising. OLEDs are in use in mobile phone screens already but the barrier to flexible ones has always been trying to get them to form on the non glass substrate. Very

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Interesting. What ever happened to the roll up keyboard that was supposed to be coming out a few years ago?

Think it was fibre cloth - not plastic.