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Plastic Transistors Get Rubber Stamp
News Silk-screening and other techniques to create so-called "plastic transistors" have been proposed, but none can create really small transistors. Made of plastic, electronic paper can change what is "written" on it by having data downloaded to it...
[March 25, 1999, 5:59]
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]
Startup Spotlight: Plastic Is Fundamental Element Of EShui
News The tongue-in-cheek solution has been to develop eshui.co.uk -- a six-point guide based on the five elements of Feng Shui: fire, earth, metal, water, wood and the added e-business element, plastic. Intronets' business strategy rests on its...
[August 25, 2000, 14:32]
Plastic Memory Shows Promise
News Researchers at Princeton University working with Hewlett-Packard have invented a new form of permanent computer memory that uses plastic, and may be much cheaper and faster than existing silicon circuits.
[November 27, 2003, 16:45]
Plastic Microchips Ahead
News Researchers at Cambridge University are developing cheap microchip technology using plastic that some pundits believe could lead to a revolution within the processor industry. Plastic Logic, the company behind the project, hopes to demonstrate...
[November 27, 2000, 11:05]
News Burst: Plastic Microchips Ahead
News Researchers at Cambridge University are developing cheap microchip technology using plastic that some pundits believe could lead to a revolution within the processor industry. Plastic Logic, the company behind the project, hopes to demonstrate...
[November 27, 2000, 8:33]
Rose Plastic Finds Microsoft EPM Solution To Be The Right Fit For Companywide Resource Management System
White Papers Rose plastic is the world market leader in custom plastic packaging products for the industry sector and ships its products to over 40 countries. At rose plastic, complex projects are now managed in a uniform manner.
[November 21, 2003, 23:00]
Cambridge Plastic Light Technology Licensed By Philips
News Light-emitting polymers (LEPs) look much like LEDs, the universal solid-state indicating devices, but are made of plastic rather than gallium arsenide. A new light-emitting technology, invented and developed in Cambridge, has taken its first step...
[September 5, 1996, 15:56]
Polysack Plastic Industries Manages Global Enterprise And Growth With Integrated IT Environment
White Papers Established in 1974 to develop technologies to battle the negative effects of the sun, Polysack Plastic Industries Ltd.produces and develops ultra-violet-resistant nets and thermal screens for agriculture.
[July 11, 2007, 0:00]
Researchers Move Toward Plastic Chips
News Organic polymers that conduct electricity have been around since the 1970s--last year's Nobel Prize for chemistry, for instance, went to the researchers who discovered plastic conductors, organic materials that have some resistance to the flow of...
[October 12, 2001, 9:05]
Pallet Rental Company Modernizes Shipping Industry With Plastic And RFID Tracking
White Papers Its innovative plastic pallets offer dramatic economic and environmental improvements over the 1 billion wood pallets in use in the United States. Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS), based in Orlando, Florida, has revolutionized the pallet...
[May 30, 2007, 0:00]
Tiny Plastic Tube Helps Computer Communication
News Dr Martijn van Eijkelenborg of the Optical Fibre Technology Centre (OFTC) -- a member of the CRC -- helped develop the fibre, which is produced by drilling 112 holes in polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) -- a clear plastic -- and then stretching the...
[January 6, 2004, 11:15]
Researchers Warm To Magnetic Plastic
News The world's first practical plastic magnet has been created at the University of Durham, according to a report in New Scientist magazine. After three months of mostly fruitless experiments, researchers began to detect magnetism in the mixture of...
[September 1, 2004, 18:25]
'Glowing Plastic' A First For UK-based CDT
News CDT describes LEP as 'plastic that glows'. The UK company, backed by former minister Lord Young and rock group Genesis, says that it is collaborating with Seiko-Epson to produce computer screens based on CDT's light-emitting polymer (LEP) technology.
[February 18, 1998, 12:53]
Robots: Our Plastic Pals Who Are Fun To Be With?
News Robots have been in the news recently — walking robots, dancing robots, even cycling robots — and it has to be admitted that the images of small humanoid robots performing mundane tasks makes good and easy content for the newspapers and TV.
[November 10, 2005, 9:30]
Romanian Savings Bank Joins The Plastic Revolution Thanks To HP
White Papers The Romanian Savings Bank known as CEC (Casa de Economii si Consemnatiuni) is the country's oldest savings bank and has over 1,400 branches serving some 2.8 million customers. CEC wanted a turnkey solution and issued an integrated tender for an ATM...
[August 26, 2006, 0:00]
Xerox Scientist Sees Promise In Plastic
News A scientist at Xerox on Tuesday detailed how to create inexpensive semiconducting plastics that may finally fulfill the promise of reducing the cost of display technology for laptops, cellphones and other devices.
[December 4, 2002, 9:55]
Fujitsu Takes PC Recycling Step
News Fujitsu has announced it is to start recycling the plastic casings of old PCs in new laptop models. Re-using the inner workings of PCs is nothing new but plastic recycling has typically meant converting PC casings into other household products.
[November 28, 2002, 16:33]
Is Cube All It's Cracked Up To Be?
News Artifacts in the clear plastic chassis of Apple Computer's Power Mac G4 Cube have drawn complaints from some buyers since the stylish desktop systems hit the channel in August. All the marks were indented into the plastic, as opposed to being...
[October 6, 2000, 9:08]
Silicon's Successor Lurks In The Lab
News They are stronger than steel and as flexible as plastic, conduct energy better than almost any material ever discovered and can be made from unexotic raw materials such as methane gas. Single-walled nanotubes are expected to debut this year in...
[October 20, 2003, 16:05]
