How To Make Electronic Displays With Mood Ring Ink 33
Soychemist writes "Print some thermochromic ink onto a sheet of paper, put metal heating elements on the other side, and you have a rudimentary color-changing display. Chemists in the Whitesides Group at Harvard think that the devices could be used to provide a simple readout from cheap medical tests and kits that check water for pollutants. In the past year, the same scientists have made a three-cent medical test and improvised a centrifuge with an egg beater. Their aim is to invent useful gizmos with everyday materials."
Re:How is this electronic? (Score:3, Funny)
Uh, it has to be "electronic" to be useful? Every hear of electric light? Or a toaster?
Brett