Print the gadgets you need
March 26 2009
“Wallpaper with changing designs, bulbless lamps that shed light from their shades, mediaeval-looking scrolls that unroll to become flexible full-colour displays… These are just a few of the new devices the approaching era of printed electronics could bring.
Conventional electronics is somewhat like chipping a sculpture from a block of marble – a large volume of material is laboriously etched away and wasted on the way to the final, rigid design. But squirting out circuits using polymer “ink” from an inkjet print head produces electronics that are less wasteful, flexible and very cheap.”
Video from an exhibition of printable gadgets
Manufacturer of printable gadgets
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