For all the Im going to wait until xyz comes out this may interest you..

[ddcobb]

Headwaters NanoKinetix Announces Nano-Scientist to Break Through Impasse in Flat-Screened TV Technology

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 2005--Headwaters NanoKinetix announced today the development of a technology that may allow for the production of flat-screen televisions that are higher-quality yet less expensive than ones currently on the market. Until now, the technology underpinning the fashionably slim monitors has limited both their size and life expectancy.


Dr. Bing Zhou, a pioneering molecular scientist at NanoKinetix, a research lab in Lawrenceville, New Jersey has developed a process that has the potential to overcome the limitations of the two predominant ways to make flat-screen monitors -- liquid-crystal-display (LCD) and plasma Digital Light Processing (DLP(TM)). An LCD monitor delivers high-quality pictures, but requires liquid crystals which are "grown" using an expensive and time-consuming process. The relatively high probability of imperfections in large crystal clusters limits the dimensions of LCD TVs to no bigger than 35 to 40 inches. Plasma monitors deliver bright colors and clarity without size limitations, but at the cost of expensive materials and a usable product life between 4 and 5 years. After that, picture quality begins to deteriorate and fade.

Polymeric crystals -- synthesized by a chemical process based on nanotechnology -- can overcome both the high costs and inherent imperfections of current technology, but until now no one has been able to jump the hurdles to making them. The answer lies in Dr. Zhou's unique and patented method of nanoparticle control for an even and cost-effective application of a super-thin coating of highly conductive metallic material, such as copper, palladium, or platinum, perhaps as thin as a single molecule, to the surface of polymers to form a radically new kind of light-emitting diode. Nanotechnology will enable the production of high-quality, long-life, flat-screen television monitors at a fraction of the cost of today's devices. While these new metal-coated screens will still have a finite life-span, they will last much longer, and will deliver brighter and clearer pictures, than the best of today's LCDs and DLPs.

And that's just the beginning. One day Dr. Zhou's nanomaterials may make flat-screens that last twice as long as today's plasma TVs, cost half as much, and, with organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), have none of the trace metals that can deteriorate picture quality over time. Dr. Zhou thinks "outside the box" and envisions a day when nanotechnology will enable manufacturers to produce truly cutting-edge flat TV devices-- millimeter-thin screens in any size to fit any room, able to be rolled up for convenient transport.

 

[Sheep]

cool, I was hoping a newer, better, and cheaper tv would come out soon.


thanks,
sheep

 

[westcott]

Sounds Great......but

I doubt we will see anything soon!

It would be like waiting for super conductive wire. Great in theory but application in the real world is something else.

 

[ddcobb]

I doubt we will see anything soon!

It would be like waiting for super conductive wire. Great in theory but application in the real world is something else.

August 3, 2005
Intermagnetics subsidiary announces superconductor milestone
SuperPower Inc., the energy technology subsidiary of Intermagnetics General Corp., has achieved world record performance by carrying more than 100 amperes of current over a 206-meter length of second-generation (2G) high-temperature-superconducting wire.

This 22,000 amp-meter performance more than doubles the performance announced by SuperPower in January, and improves on the previous world record, set by a Japanese company, by nearly 2,000 amp-meters. "Amp-meter" is a common measure of HTS wire performance achieved by multiplying critical current carrying capacity in amperes by length in meters.

"The increase in piece lengths of 2G wire beyond the 100 meter threshold is of particular significance as we work toward product commercialization and development of devices incorporating 2G wire," said Glenn Epstein, chairman and CEO of Intermagnetics (Nasdaq: IMGC), which is located in Latham.

"This latest achievement by the SuperPower team keeps us firmly on the path toward producing ever longer, high-performing HTS wire for a broadening range of applications."

SuperPower also announced that site construction at a $26 million superconducting cable project in Albany, N.Y., continues to progress according to schedule.

"The equipment and controls building, underground ductwork and termination vaults, and the cryogenic refrigeration system, are all substantially completed," said Philip Pellegrino, president of SuperPower.

He said the first phase of cable, fabricated by Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. of Japan, is expected to arrive in September for installation. The cables will connect two National Grid Co. substations in Albany.

 

[majorloser]

I just hope in my lifetime (while I still have my vision) there will be an affordable wall-display system that can cover the whole wall

No projector, no ambient light problems, light weight, folds or rolls up for easy shipping and HUGE! If they could make them transparent when the unit is off, that would be even better. A large window during the day and a huge display at night.

One can only dream

 

[BMXTRIX]

Now that would be cool - a interior designers AND a home theater junkies wet dream.

A large beautiful window covering half your wall... Then, flick a switch and the light is blocked and a pristing UHDTV image appears with 100% blackout of the light from behind it. The other windows in the room give you plenty of daylight still keeping the room usable, but the image really is what you are there for at that point.

One can dream can't one?

 

[Tomorrow]

I just hope in my lifetime (while I still have my vision) there will be an affordable wall-display system that can cover the whole wall

No projector, no ambient light problems, light weight, folds or rolls up for easy shipping and HUGE! If they could make them transparent when the unit is off, that would be even better. A large window during the day and a huge display at night.

One can only dream

Naw. In your lifetime someone will invent and produce an electron-exciter/photon-polarizer that will turn any flat surface in your house (or anywhere) into a display system. (I'll call it the RJian Transducer!)

 

[majorloser]

Naw. In your lifetime someone will invent and produce an electron-exciter/photon-polarizer that will turn any flat surface in your house (or anywhere) into a display system. (I'll call it the RJian Transducer!)

Heh?

What he said.