Blade Runner-watch: Cheap, transparent displays in the lab
A couple of grad students at USC have built a prototype transparent, flexible display with a relatively inexpensive, low-temperature process. Besides making for a charming yearbook picture, the material could also be used for cheap in-car heads-up displays, digital window signage, clothing with shifting patterns, and magical morphing power wallpaper.
USC researchers print dense lattice of transparent nanotube transistors on flexible base [Eurekalert.org]
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