REAL LIFE NEWS: FLASHING BEER LABELSby HazedYou may soon be able to buy bottles of beer with labels that light up. A printing company in Cambridge, England, has come up with a way to print little lights onto beer bottle labels that flash as you pick them up. Scientists at PragmatIC have printed working electronic circuits onto a film which can be wrapped around a bottle. It's sensitive to pressure from fingers which will activate the lights. The innovative part is that the tiny electronics were created using a normal printing process, which makes them very cheap to manufacture. The film doesn't have to be used for beer, of course - but it seems to look best on a bottle. The possibilities are endless! Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/03/printed_electronics/ |