Black Silicon Used For Surveillance? 56
An anonymous reader writes "For the past decade, 'black silicon' has been touted as a way to make super-sensitive image sensors and ultra-efficient solar cells. That's because the material — silicon wafers treated with sulfur gases and femtosecond laser pulses — is much better at absorbing photons and releasing electrons than conventional silicon, at least over certain wavelengths. In 2008, Harvard spinoff SiOnyx went public with its plans to commercialize black silicon. But what happened to those plans? Today SiOnyx revealed in another exclusive that it has raised new venture financing from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and other big investors. It also has formed a key strategic partnership to scale up manufacturing of black silicon — and go after markets in security, surveillance, automotive, consumer devices, and medical imaging."
Re:How deliciously sinister sounding... (Score:1, Insightful)
I mean, "black" silicone doing surveillance? The conspiracy nuts will have a blast with it!
Why would we care about the color? Guy's like us don't get near fake boobs.
Re:Man, that's racist (Score:1, Insightful)
So, the color of his skin gives him American citizenship?
If you really want to phrase it this way, he must be called an "African South African" which seems to be the epitome of redundancy...
Also, I had no idea he was a "prople".
You are definately a racist, according to th PC crowd. Anyone who has extra-dark skin, or is distantly related to someone who might have had such a condition, cannot be called Black, or any other term relating to their skin color, or their ancesters skin color. The only approved term is "African American". Until other terms have been added to the PC lexicon, that is the only term available to us. So nationality is not a barrier. Tutu has been reported to be African American in numerous magazine articles, so that should be considered official canon.
Now, if those European Americans in Germany, with the help of the Japanese Americans in Japan, would have left the Jewish Americans alone in WWII, they would have already taken over the world and enslaved us all, making all this anti racist PC business moot. Now all we have the Jewish Americans in Israel fighting with the Arab Americans in Gaza, and nobody is getting busy with the enslavement.
Re:Man, that's racist (Score:3, Insightful)
Woosh!
Re:Nightvision? (Score:3, Insightful)