<![CDATA[Gizmodo: society for information display]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: society for information display]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/society for information display http://gizmodo.com/tag/society for information display <![CDATA[ Father of Plasma Saves Middle Earth, Predicts Plasma-Screen Laptops ]]> We bumped into Larry Weber, the shaggy professor mainly responsible for the invention of the plasma TV in the 1960s. He's got a lot to say about his latest project, mostly too technical for our hurting little brains. Here's the skinny:

He wants to improve notoriously inefficient plasma energy use to a point that it drains a battery less than the LED light source in an LCD does. Pair that with super-thin plasma technology, and voila—plasma-screen MacBook Pro anyone? We were just kidding about that whole "saving Middle Earth" business...or were we? [Larry Weber's Society for Information Display]

]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:39:21 EST Wilson Rothman http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=342999&view=rss&microfeed=true