It’s been about five years since I first wrote about John Rogers’ stretchy silicon research out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He had the idea that high-quality silicon–the kind that usually comes as a rigid chip–could work even … Continue reading
My latest story in Technology Review is up. The piece is about a partnership between quantum dot-maker QD Vision and screen-maker LG Display to manufacture a new type of display technology that will supposedly look better and be more energy … Continue reading
Electronic skin is flexible, stretchable material with a layer of circuitry on top. It is currently a research novelty, but has a lot of people excited because of its potential to be wrapped around the metal frames of robots, to … Continue reading
From the tone of the SID 2010 keynote from Sang-Soo Kim, VP of Samsung Mobile Display, the company is betting the public’s interest in 3D television will help create a market for bold and beautiful OLED displays*. In the talk, … Continue reading
Today, Technology Review is running a story of mine about a type of interface for mobile phones in which a person gestures with her hands instead of tapping buttons or icons. The gestures, which could trace simple line drawings like … Continue reading