The next mobile screen could be your shirt
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Integrating a screen in your shirt is a seducing idea we covered several times on 21talks. They can be resized to fit the environment, and they would theoretically make users move their Internet phones. Lately, those days are getting closer. Plastic Logic, a spin-off company of the University of Cambridge, has secured $100 million to build the world’s first plant for making semiconductors out of plastic rather than silicon.
Plenty of applications could be made out of plastic semiconductors. The silly one: You plug a plastic milk bottle into your USB port to get the latest recipes tagged with the milk keyword; Or the e-book one: A foldable newspaper containing the/your daily news, with some widgets to chat with your friends, or trigger some Click-to-call adverts.
Hermann Hauser, a director at Plastic Logic, said to the Financial Times the first products will be a series of light, tough and flexible display screens the thickness of a credit card. We guess they’ll also head to the mobile market. Cellphone makers are turning their handsets into mobile computers and are looking for comfortable screen displays.
Jan 10, 2007 | By Nuno
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