PARC Readies Printed Electronics for Market

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by zoowar • 16 years ago

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iwr• 16 years ago

One more step toward a fully self-replicating reprap.

zoowar• 16 years ago

Another step is Japanese Robotics http://tinyurl.com/39ke6g7 Notice the humans marginalized in the background.

gojomo• 16 years ago

No need for TinyURLs here, and many readers prefer to see the true destination (http://www.switched.com/2010/10/19/japanese-humanoid-bot-bus...) before clicking.

gfodor• 16 years ago

For those too lazy to do the math:

128 bits = 16 bytes = $0.10

8192 bits = 1024 bytes = 1kb = $6.40

A megabyte of this would cost over 6 grand, and probably would take up a lot of surface area :) If the current product is approx 1cm squared (a guess), your $6 1kb one would take up 64cm squared, which, according to wolfram alpha is about half the size of a passport or 1.5x the size of your credit card.

PARC Readies Printed Electronics for Market

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