Does it feel good when I twist your circuits?
Brian
Ha! #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 13:59 GMT
Twisted circuit smoke- don't breathe that!
Chris C
Co chain-link, then? #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 13:59 GMT
So basically, they created a circuit using really tiny chain-link. While it's certainly interesting in the context of bendy computers, it's not exactly a new idea. Chain-mail armor has been around for how many hundreds of years? We've known for a very long time that if we want metal to bend, we need to form it using links. Look at wristwatches if you want another example. What interests (and always amazes) me is that they can make it so damn small.
sauerkraut
uhm... #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 13:59 GMT
you ask: will it blend?
i say: watch it shred!
Anonymous Coward
Harder #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 13:59 GMT
david
holy crap, that's just slick. #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 13:59 GMT
Andy Worth
Bendy? #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 13:59 GMT
"an optical image of an electronic device in a complex deformation mode."
What....you mean that picture of a circuit board being bendy?
That sentence alone reminds me of "Mr Logic" from the days I used to read Viz.
Peter D'Hoye
Fine. Now we just need components that can do the same #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 13:59 GMT
Good for traces, not for placing components....
Iain
Stretch PCs #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 13:59 GMT
Having recently twatishly broken expensive bits of my PC, I would find this innovation incredibly useful in ordinary computing components, especialy those bits which inveterate hamfisted hardware fiddlers (yours truly) may have cause to manipulate, often percussively.
Also, a laptop made completly of this stuff would be far more genuinely "'ard" than recent efforts at so called 'drop-resistant' (not 'proof' but 'resistant', huh?).
<---Is it fireproof?
Tim
Does this mean... #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 13:59 GMT
...that we will soon have 'warp' drives that can store terabytes of data?
Will my PDA become my 'flexible' friend?
Can I have wraparound glasses with an integrated, bluetooth enabled, oled, display?
RaelianWingnut
Cheezburgr! #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 14:05 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Yes, but will it blend? #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 14:05 GMT
Awesome :)
Geoff Mackenzie
an optical image of an electronic device in a complex deformation mode #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 14:05 GMT
Well, that was an octet stream that indirectly precipitated an audible, amusement-related respiratory response.
Dave
<untitled> #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 14:05 GMT
"an optical image"
as opposed to what? A tactile image?
Anonymous Coward
@<untitled> #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 16:46 GMT
> "an optical image"
> as opposed to what?
A non-optical image, of course!
Anonymous Coward
bended? #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 17:14 GMT
I hope you sended a message about this bended circuit...
Muscleguy
DNA #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 17:14 GMT
'Can I have wraparound glasses with an integrated, bluetooth enabled, oled, display?'
Only if they are also Peril sensitive.
J. Cook
re: Chris C (chain link) #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 17:14 GMT
Can't use chain link- it will not keep a continuous connection (for reasons that are obvious)...
All I can hope for is that the end points are easier to deal with then the ribbon cable interconnects, which are infamous for their fragility and flexibility.
This would be a neat thing to see made into production- I can think of a large number of applications this would work in (and not just the medical field, either)
Anonymous Coward
@david - those clever fellows #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 17:14 GMT
Yes, you're right. I'm surprised they weren't classifed as boffins.
Martin Lyne
@Dave #
Posted Monday 24th November 2008 16:52 GMT
Infrared, X-rag, gamma ray, terahertz, the rest of the non-visible-light spectrum images
;D
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