Day: July 21, 2013

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Connor “Con” Sumer looked up at the beast that stalked him ever since flat-panel TV sales began to flatten out. “Stereoscopy,” he thought, “the word even sounded like an uncomfortable medical procedure.” This was far from the first time 3D tried to take […]

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Flexible circuitry is frequently a one-way affair — we’ve seen bendy displays and touch layers, but rarely both in one surface. UC Berkeley is at last merging those two technologies through a plastic skin whose display reacts to touch. By curing a polymer on top of a silicon wafer, the school’s researchers found that they […]

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