Frank.....the name actually comes from the chemical formula for Gallium Arsenide, an LED material.
But, hey, the joke is right on.
Look at this......I would like to be the first to have a display silk-screened on one of my old tee-shirts. I would keep it linked onto this thread, so as not to miss anything.
FINANCE: NEWS, FUNDING, & ACQUISITIONS Applied Technology Supports E Ink
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Semiconductor Industry & Business Survey
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Venture capital firm Applied Technology has provided start-up
financing for E-Ink Corporation, located in Cambridge, MA. E Ink is a
development stage Company created to commercialize discoveries made by
Professor Joe Jacobson and a team of researchers at the MIT Media Lab
for a new way to make electronic displays.
E Ink's approach is based on the concept of "electronic ink" and is
protected by multiple patent pendings. Using electronic ink, a flat
panel display can be printed on top of nearly any material using
existing printing presses. The resulting display offers the prospect of
being cheaper than an LCD, drawing 50 times less power, offers better
contrast with higher resolution, and can be printed onto a flexible
piece of paper or plastic.
The team successfully micro-encapsulate a micromechanical display
system creating a display material with excellent reflectivity and
viewing angle and contrast ratio. The patent-pending microencapsulation
process also enables the company to suspend its display material in an
ink form that offers design and manufacturing wins. Products using
electronic ink displays can achieve new looks by utilizing curves,
flexibility, color-matching, ultra-thinness and bigger sizes at a
cost-effective price when compared to traditional handheld LCD displays.
Ink displays can range in size from very small billboards.
Applied Technology operates with a team of three managing partners -
Frederick Bamber, David Boucher, and Thomas Grant - and two special
* general partners, Eugene Flath and MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte.
The company maintains offices in Austin, TX., Lexington, MA., and Menlo
Park, CA. Co-investors along with Applied Technology include Atlas
Ventures and Solstice Capital.
(I have had a small dinner and conversation with Negroponte, and search on him from time to time...... Austin, Texas, the new display capital of the WORLD !!!<G>) mcd |
