you’re able to run your tablet and your smartphone by touch , but what if you could do the same with say , nutritionary labels or monetary value tags ?
A research team head up at Harvard University hasdeveloped newspaper electronic ghost padsthat cost just 25 cents per square meter . That means a small screen would be so garish you could thrust it out when you do n’t postulate it . Not exactly something people are doing with their iPads .
These inexpensive displays are made out of paper that has been coat in aluminium and a crystal clear polymer . With the aid of an outside circuit , the metallized fabric becomes a capacitive surface . While the composition is extremely cheap , the challenge now is in find as low-cost power seed , as well as moderately - priced , flexible electronics .
The fields where this innovation could be used launch the gamut from amusement to medicine to education . Imagine answer multiple choice question on a test printed on touch paper . The research worker have already come up with a secure box with a keypad that progress to you type in a code in ordination to enter it . Perhaps this is the kind of piggybank our kids will be using to protect their pennies . [ Chemistry WorldviaPhysOrg ]
Image credit : Top : violetkaipa / Shutterstock , Bottom : Aaron Mazzeo / Harvard University
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