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"In WWII, they had a saying that there are no atheists in foxholes. I think the modern equivalent of that is that there are no jaded, bored people in the high-tech industry, in the land of really good hardcore geeks."
- Neal Stephenson
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| Leaf Screens | ||
| Bioform displays grown from plants offering flat surfaces - like leaves. |
| There might even be broad-leaved philodendrons whose every leaf was a veedo screen...
...At a recent seminar, she had seen how flat surfaces - leaves or skins - could generate high-resolution images, their pixels nothing more than single cells that emitted bioluminescence, like fireflies or ocean algae or deep-sea fish, on command. |
| From Sparrowhawk,
by Thomas A. Easton. Published by Ace Books in 1990 Additional resources -
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Imagine being able to grow small displays, like cell phone screens, on plants. Now that's an organic light-emitting diode!
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