Plastic microchips ahead
News Plastic Logic, the company behind the project, hopes to demonstrate commercial prototypes next summer. Plastic Logic is funded by Cambridge venture capital firm Amadeus Capital Partners and is headed up by entrepreneur and cofounder of Acorn...
[November 27, 2000, 11:05]
Plastic electronics factory gets funding
News Cambridge-based company Plastic Logic has secured $100m (£51.2m) worth of venture capital to build the factory in Dresden, in an area of Germany known as "Silicon Saxony". Plastic Logic's organic TFTs are embedded within layers of conducting...
[January 3, 2007, 16:12]
Stop Press! Electronic paper is here
News Plastic Logic claims it too will begin shipping fully functional 800 pixel × 600 pixel A5 flexible displays to their applications development partners in late 2005. Now prototypes have finally arrived from two companies, Philips Polymer Vision of...
[July 15, 2005, 12:10]
News Burst: Plastic microchips ahead
News Plastic Logic, the company behind the project, hopes to demonstrate prototypes next summer. Researchers at Cambridge University are developing cheap microchip technology using plastic that some pundits believe could lead to a revolution within the...
[November 27, 2000, 8:33]
iSlide
Downloads As has been true with the plastic hand-held version of this game for decades, you may only move a tile that is adjacent to the blank tile. iSlide exercises your spatial ability, quick thinking, and logic, challenging you to arrange fifteen numbered...
[January 6, 2009, 7:27]
Inkjet printers are chip factories of the future
News UK company Plastic Logic, a spin-off from the Cavendish Laboratories in Cambridge, is using similar techniques to produce active-matrix backplanes for organic light-emitting displays, and 'smart' labels as successors for product barcodes.
[April 11, 2002, 17:33]
Survey: UK retailers may miss Chip & PIN deadline
News More than a quarter of UK retailers are wary of moving to the latest Chip & PIN smart card technology for plastic card transactions, according to a survey conducted by Retail Logic, a maker of payment processing software, and the Retail Bulletin...
[May 18, 2004, 15:49]
Good news for British high-tech startups
Blog The big deals this year have been Plastic Logic (£25m); Miniweb Interactive (£18m); G24i (£15m); Fleetmatics (£13m); PCH International £12m); Nujira (£10m); Enqii (£10m); Intelligent Energy (£9m); Secerno (£8m); Mydeco (£7m).
[November 21, 2008, 15:32]
Double-sided LCD screen breakthrough claimed
News Flexible display technology using organic polymers is also an emerging market, with Plastic Logic announcing on Wednesday that it will open a factory to make e-paper components in Dresden in 2008. Samsung Electronics claims to have created the...
[January 4, 2007, 14:41]
Bell Labs finds end of the road for transistors
News First applications are likely to be in devices like active paper displays and laptop screens, where the transistor's plastic-like composition means it can flex and fold where silicon would shatter. The devices can be configured as switches...
[October 18, 2001, 15:34]
Will nobody think of the bees?
Blog So, no sign of an acceleration in cancer rates then - and if there was, none that it's caused by radio waves as opposed to, say, toxins leeching out of the plastic casing or some other environmental factor quite unconnected to mobile phone usage.
[April 22, 2007, 22:42]
