Flexible materials used to build electronic displays are not mainstream yet, even if new products are launched almost every week. Until today, they needed to be powered by processors which couldn't been implanted on the displays themselves. But now, Technology Review reports that thanks to research done at Sarnoff Corporation in Princeton, NJ, and Columbia University, flexible plastic circuits can now operate at speeds up to 100 megahertz. And even if these processing speeds are a hundred times faster than the ones previously achieved, the researchers think their plastic circuits can easily become more powerful. This opens the way to large displays easily carried in a car trunk and even to real wearable computing devices. Read more...
Sources: Kevin Bullis, Technology Review, December 13, 2005; and various web sites
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