Plastic Fantastic!
Move over Silicon Valley, we’re making a new town that even celebrities would be in awe of!
Imagine…
- Changing the channels on your television by pressing certain cushions on your sofa, or
- Items of clothing that can relay the stats of a patient to a doctor, or
- Watching your curtains change colour depending on who was about to knock on your front door, or
- Be reminded by your pill box when your next dosage is due, or even,
- Change all the sales prices of all the products on a supermarket floor at a touch of a button
Welcome to the new revolution!
A UK firm (yes, that’s UK!) called Plastic Logic has said that it will build the world’s first factory to produce plastic electronic devices. The manufacturing of plastic circuits will enable the development of new gadgets such as electronic paper which will be able to store the text of thousands of books or newspapers.
By 2010, 41.6m control circuits could be in production and by 2015, the plastic electronics industry could be worth $30billion.
Imagine what this will mean for us both in terms of how we live on a daily basis but also the way we will change our working lives! There are talks even about creating contact lenses which can store digital information so you can browse web articles whilst pretending to be listening to that weekly board meeting! That’ll be a ‘challenge’ for the user policies!
Plastic Paper to cut ‘emissions’
So to all those holding out for the ultimate in Tablet PCs, you will have a while to wait for something like this and so you may as well think about getting something with that new OS called Vista which is soooo yesterday daaarhling! 
Apparently they raised $100m to fund this, which isn’t bad going! I believe they are a spin out from Cambridge University. As you say a British idea that could spawn a new industry!