I'm currently writing this on one of those cool rubber keyboards
that can be rolled up and hooked up to a Sony UX micro computer.
But this new spreadable electronics idea for a display that is
self-powered with solar energy just blows my rubber keyboard
away. Two Japanese companies, Mitsubishi Chemicals and Sumitomo
Chemical, are working on spreadable electronics, an idea that
has nothing to do with margarine and everything to do with
potentially making electronics that doesn't have to be plugged
in. The molecular soup mixture would have organic light-emitting
diode (OLED) and solar cell building blocs that can be spread or
even sprayed like paint in an ultra-thin layer that is only 100
nm thick. By combining both technologies, it may be possible to
have displays on the market that don't even have to be plugged
in but charged using solar panels. The companies even say it
could be sprayed onto the back of cell phones to charge up the
device. There are plenty of solar panels being created through
similar means,