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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]
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 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]
Xerox prints computer smarts on fabric, plastic
News It works on surfaces such as plastic that earlier have shown an inconvenient tendency to melt under the high temperature of liquid silver; Xerox's process works with an ink compound with a much lower temperature, the company said.
[October 27, 2009, 8:47]
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 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]
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, 1:00]
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, 1:00]
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]
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]
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]
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]
'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]
eMedicine Otolaryngology & Facial Plastic Surgery
Downloads Designed for use by practicing physicians, academicians and residents to provide rapid answers to clinical questions This is a completely current reference volume consisting of 404 comprehensive, but concise, disease-specific review articles.
[February 23, 2006, 6:00]
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]
Are You Protected by a Piece of Plastic and Two Screws?: Wiegand Had Its Day! Borer All-in-One Solution, Will Ensure Your Data Is Secure
White Papers The majority of cards and biometric readers in access control systems use a Wiegand interface to transmit data read from a card to a control panel. The control panel will then validate the date received and grant/deny access.
[February 29, 2008, 0:02]
Tuesday
Blog Life in plastic, it's fantastic. Today sees the launch of the first mass-market full-feature plastic (or organic, as we must call them for marketing reasons) LED display. While the manufacturing benefits of OLEDs are significant -- as they're made...
[March 7, 2003, 14:37]
