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To: rarestia
...an age of microelectronics to make our current iPhones and Droid devices look like the bag phones of the 80s.

Why? I find the current crop of smartphone touch screens barely navigable as is. Plus, why would someone want a smartphone display that requires a magnifying glass to see?

23 posted on 03/07/2013 10:57:15 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Here once the embattled farmers stood... And fired the shot heard round the world.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

You’re thinking from a size perspective. I’m thinking from a capabilities standpoint. Today’s smartphones require very small electronics to pump out some impressive hardware capabilities for something so tiny. By comparison, we could get horsepower comparable to an enterprise server in a tablet. This would have immense implications for the current datacenter and consumer-level electronics.

Imagine 60”+ televisions that weight less than a pound, ultra-dense memory and solid state disk drives allowing for hundreds of gigabytes or even terabytes of RAM and possibly petabytes of disk in a solid state form, all in the same packaging of today or even smaller, entire rooms full of electronics compacted down to something the size of a phone or a tablet. The applications are almost unimaginable.


24 posted on 03/07/2013 11:02:42 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts; rarestia; Marine_Uncle; SierraWasp; blam; SunkenCiv; NormsRevenge

Yes,...And still I need a BIGGER MAGNIFIER...


26 posted on 03/07/2013 2:13:45 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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