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The future is plastic |
axxxr
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For decades, silicon has been high-tech's hottest commodity. But there was a time when plastic was king.
It could be again, says Thomas Aisenbrey, chief technology officer at Integral TechnologiesIntegral Technologies, interviewed in The Chicago Tribune.
"Aisenbrey, who was in Chicago recently for a plastics trade show, is promoting a form of plastic that conducts electricity. It will, he says, find a role in nearly every aspect of the electronics industry, cutting costs and boosting performance.
One application for conductive plastic would be as the cover for a cell phone that could double as the phone's antenna. With so much surface serving to receive a radio signal, customers should enjoy more robust calls with less fading and interference.
"We're involved with all the big cell phone handset-makers," Aisenbrey said. "We're at the prototype stage, and there may be products ready for the market by next spring."
Cell phones are only the beginning of where conductive plastic may find useful work, he said. Aisenbrey also has prototypes and mock-ups of products such as plastic seat-warmers embedded in automobiles, plastic pads for cardiac defibrillators, plastic circuit boards and plastic heat sinks that would double as antennas for chipsets equipped with miniature radios."
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Plastic is OK though not that appealing compared to metals when talkin' 'bout celfone covers mates! |
Dragonfly_TP
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Cellphone covers are already plastic! Only very few models still use some metal. It is only a matter of time before a car will be alll plastic (many parts are already, some cars have plasic hoods and so). But silicon (in the form of glass) has a future too. Like for panel tv's or even in the future a panel pc. Imagine to have a single sheed of glass that has intergrated in it: CPU, memory, graphics card, all the stuff a mainboard has, 1TB of memory and it works as monitor/display at the same time! Exept from the terrabyte of memory, it is already possible today!
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Posted: 2004-10-10 15:52
