Stretchy silicon circuits wrap around complex shapes, like your wife
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Mar 28th 2008 5:41AM
posted Mar 28th 2008 5:41AM
[Via BBC, thanks YoJIMbo]
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The title is priceless!
The title is over-the-top sexist crap.
@male but offended,
Sexist, really? So you're saying it's somehow discriminating or meant as hatred towards women? Pfff.
Fact is, a woman's shape is infinitely more complex than a flat circuit board and the vast majority of our readers are men.
The only point you can challenge me on is the possibility of our readers (or editors) being lucky enough to trick one into marring them.
Thomas
@ Thomas Ricker
Thanks for responding. Certainly not hateful, no, but reducing women to wives, and then to their shapes. Men have complex shapes too; why not have said "like yours"? As you say, the majority of Engadget's readers are probably men; is this going to make whatever women are here feel welcome? Would you have said it in a woman's physical presence, or would you have thought it comes across as "laddish" and a bit demeaning? Give it a thought.
Leave her out of this.
ELECTRONIC PAPER
No?
Circuit Board != Display
Didn't you _at least_ read the summary?
Circuit Board != Display
Didn't you _at least_ read the summary?
Current e-paper prototypes require a box on the side, thus making them not nearly as convenient as normal paper. With this, any circuitry could be built right in. It'd be just a flat sheet, nothing else. If we married this with flexible batteries (which have been invented), you could get a whole computer in that paper. Maybe even use a photosensitive dye on the back, generating its own power. Bit of a pipe dream...
I did read the summary, don't be so hostile.
That's Doctor Scientists to you.
lol probably one of the biggest technological achievements of our time and engadget manages to tie in a "yo momma" joke XD.
If you end up marrying your mother then youre a serious fuck-up, no question.
This is awesome!
We now have flexible circuits, the US government is working on a contact lens HUD "similar to first person shooter games", and OLED - which is super flexy and thin already.
Can't wait to see what happens when we merge them all!!!
This is one of the best comments I have EVER read on engadget.
iPhone related crap after the video is over...
Yeah, um, I don't think Engadget had much control over that one buddy.
It was an ad for THEIR iPhone crap.
Haha it was too! Sorry mate :P
What a Gizmodo-like headline? IS Engadget going to prank the CTIA next too?
That's a whole lot of circuit to go around my wife
I haven't got a wife yet.
This is one of the worst comments I have EVER read on engadget.
No wrapping function has yet been invented to cover the convolutions of the personality of my (ex) wife.
Does Engadget secretly want all of us to have cybernetic wives?
Secretly?
Sorry.... I meant to say "secretly."
or YOUR MOTHER! you bastard.
...sorry, I'm very protective of my non-existent wife.
Didn't get the joke. Can it be because I'm still single?
This is one of the comments I have read on Engadget.
Circuit bending just took a new meaning...
correction: "yo wife" joke