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Yup, I wrote about them from an HP conference in 2010 and remember being told about them for a roadmap item well before that: http://ewams.net/?date=2010/09/05&view=hptechforum2010

Another one of those "right around the corner" things that is always coming soon.

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I take the slightly more patient approach with this. LCD used very old discoveries, something need to mature through a few industrial cycles before it gets discarded I guess.

World is full of technologies that would be cool if you also had a Time Machine. But other tech outpaces is so if it is born behind it never takes off.

Some of it is pretty fun for playing what if with (enforced) pastoralism. Using primitive materials with a modern understanding of them, instead of limiting yourself to historically accurate processes.

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