Nanowire Displays
After Polymer and E-Paper Displays goes the way of the newest hype on the block - all things Nano
A Harvard Uni team has come up with a way to put premade nanowire films onto plastic sheets or glas at room temperatures. This tech has the potential to make flexible HIGHresolution displays. According to a story on /. (slashdot.org) this might be even used to produced contact lenses with displays on them. Imagine a club where you get handed out contact lenses on entrance and all the visuals come up right in the eyes of the punters. For the near future I would love to see this technology to be used to produce 1200 dpi reusable displays making the need for print absolute. Get the full scope:
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/11/07/130238.shtml?tid=137&tid=196
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-11/acs-fb110603.php
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/11/07.html
nanowires (picture from: Nanosys Inc.)
(picture: NanoLetters)