They’ve finally found a legitimate use for nanotechnology: making inexpensive, big-screen TVs. Motorola has figured out a new technology called NED, or Nano Emissive Display, which uses nanotubes to build 50-inch flat screen high-definition televisions that they claim will cost as much to build as regular, 32-inch CRT televisions:
Turns out that these nanotubes are, like tiny cannons, excellent for firing electrons at something — say, for instance, phosphors on a screen, which when excited by electrons can create an image… Motorola’s breakthrough, Jaskie says, is a way to grow perfect fields of nanotubes right on a screen at low temperatures. It’s like a bald man discovering Rogaine when he thought his only choice was a hair transplant — the former being a much less painful and difficult process. ”If you can place a seed where you want the nanotubes, you can grow them,” Jaskie says. ”It becomes much easier.”
They’re even confident that NED TV’s could hit the market within a couple of years. We’ll believe it when we see it.
