GE on Demand: New Lighting Technology

[andreikilla]

organik electroniks

go grow a computor

[DanNinjaMan]

oh great more uses for plastic

[Slothrop91]

4110th view

[RachelNYC8826]

I just learned about light emitting wallpaper from the JuliB site. What an amazing invention!

[AdamBailey9]

If solar panels become as cheap as a newspaper it would completely destroy power companies, and hardware companies would have to re-think the way they sell their products if we can print electronics as easy as a newspaper... Open source hardware anyone? :D

[Devar]

Unfortunately that's the last thing big manufacturers want us to have access to, and they'll do anything they can to stifle it. :(

[istya]

Actually, it's the first thing big manufacturers want, because they'd be the ones selling it.

[soylentgreenb]

"If solar panels become as cheap as a newspaper it would completely destroy power companies..."

No. You need baseload too.

(if GE is selling them to you, how exactly did you destroy those big evil corporations again?)

"Open source hardware anyone?"

Already exists(for FPGAs). Density and speed will be much lower than silicon. Can't clone Intel/AMD tech. Someone must make free processors from scratch.

[AdamBailey9]

"No. You need baseload too."

Batteries

"if GE is selling them to you, how exactly did you destroy those big evil corporations again?"

I was thinking that we could adapt regular printers and make our own.

First you say they "Already exist" then "Someone must make them"

Even if they don't exist I'm sure an open source community will design something.

"Density and speed will be much lower"

Perhaps replacing low end machines such as the computers that most people use at work?

[tubedan2006]

AYE! What technologically exciting times we live in!

[scostae]

G R E A T

[elmenhorster]

wicked stuff ;)