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Painting Power onto Plastics

Posted February 28, 2008 8:44 AM

From The Engineer:

Plastic products of the future could have electric power sources painted on them to power moving displays or track stock thanks to a £300,000 project at Warwick University. Warwick is looking to recruit two postgraduate research students to help researchers literally paint an electronic power system onto plastic surfaces using injection moulding technology.ty

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Re: Painting Power onto Plastics

03/02/2008 2:02 AM

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I just hate the thought of that, all doing 24/7 advertising from every thing we use.

Let's just kill off that research, right away, before it becomes popular.

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