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PAPER IS TREE MURDER!!!1!

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and it looks like they are working on a new movie as we speak! Who would a thought political correctness was that big a problem in 1947?]]>Jul 22nd 2008 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/transistors-on-paper-become-a-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/transistors-on-paper-become-a-reality/Jul 22nd 2008 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/transistors-on-paper-become-a-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/transistors-on-paper-become-a-reality/Jul 22nd 2008 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/transistors-on-paper-become-a-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/transistors-on-paper-become-a-reality/
Oh no, its gonna be a beer bottle label that scans your fingerprints and automatically text messages your wife that your drinking.]]>Jul 22nd 2008 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/transistors-on-paper-become-a-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/transistors-on-paper-become-a-reality/
The one thing that comes to mind would be tamper-evident labels for food and medication packaging.

Or the self-destructing mission briefings from Mission Impossible.]]>Jul 22nd 2008 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/transistors-on-paper-become-a-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/transistors-on-paper-become-a-reality/Jul 22nd 2008 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/transistors-on-paper-become-a-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/transistors-on-paper-become-a-reality/
And to further satisfy the above post
...PAPER IS TREE MURDER ...]]>Jul 22nd 2008 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/transistors-on-paper-become-a-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/transistors-on-paper-become-a-reality/And in managed forests they plant a new tree for every chopped one.
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http://www.colxe.com]]>Jul 22nd 2008 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/transistors-on-paper-become-a-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/transistors-on-paper-become-a-reality/Jul 23rd 2008 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/transistors-on-paper-become-a-reality/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/transistors-on-paper-become-a-reality/
1) If all electronic substrate material were biodegradable, like paper, the e-waste problem would be dramatically easier to solve.

2) Using paper and disposing of it in a landfill takes carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere (via the tree) and locks it underground where it can no longer act as a dangerous climate changing greenhouse gas.

3) Trees intended for pulp and paper production are grown on tree farms near the mill that they feed. So relax. Paper is no more tree murder than oatmeal is "grain murder". This is a step in the right direction, disposable or otherwise.

On the other hand, conteporary recyclers would likely not enjoy the contamination of their mills with lead, cadmium, lithium, and other fun elements used to make transistors, so the landfill would still be the best place for biodegradable e-waste. (Unless it was an organic FET, in which case, who cares).]]>Jul 23rd 2008 9:52AM