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Bill Gates at TED 2009

the idea collector — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:21:05 +0000

Bill Gates talks about two of his latest philanthropic efforts at the annual TED conference going on this week; conquering malaria and making teachers great.

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Nature Podcast – More on Flexible Electronics

the idea collector — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:06:33 +0000

More discussion on the organic transistors enabling the flexible electronics I wrote about yesterday on the Nature Podcast this week:

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Flexible Thin-film Electronics

the idea collector — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:12:10 +0000

The New York Times is running a story about a new flexible electronics technology.

Graphene is a single-layer sheet of carbon atoms (the building block, in fact, of the graphite used in pencils) and has properties that make electronics engineers swoon.

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In addition to being nearly transparent and having excellent electrical characteristics, the films are unaffected by bending or stretching.

This will make product design engineers swoon as well. Flexible electronics could mean the end of the single-plane constraint on PCBs that we have been designing around.

The NYT story is here: With an Ultrathin Film, a Big Step Forward for Flexible Electronics

Originally published in Nature.

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