Printed Electronics

First developed in MIT's MediaLab, the now early-stage, multi-industry development of printed electronics will radically change our visual environments in the years to come.

The image at right is a lab sample of the paper-thin, flexible image display of a printed electronic sheet. This primitive example receives an image sent over a wireless network from a remote laptop. Embedded microchips interpret the image informattion and command pixel-sized disks to show one of their two sides - either black or white.

Next, think of colour images using red, blue or green disks. Then think of faster micro processors which can handle moving images.

I would love to install wall, floor, and ceiling printed electronic sheets (new age wallpaper) in a living environment. Send 'forest meadow' simulation from your computer to the printed electronic sheets and you're virtually there. That, or mountainside, or Great Barrier Reef, or skydiving. There's a whole value stream of businesses to be formed around this coccoon virtual enviromental engineering.