Computer: Display: Material
The Picture Comes Alive   (+7)  [vote for, against]
Bioluminescent Bacterial Display

Almost surprised this is not here already - if I missed it please let me know.

An ultra high resolution display made with single microorganism size pixels. Nutrient alteration or external stimulant could be used to alter colors.
-- theircompetitor, Oct 29 2011

I've got your light scorce covered. Critical_20mass_20light_2e
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Oct 30 2011]

How to do this with ants... Tibetan_20Ant_20Painting
Shameless, I tell you... [RayfordSteele, Oct 30 2011]

Wikipedia: OLEDs http://en.wikipedia...ight-emitting_diode
Organic in the sense of the O in OLED just means "its molecules contain carbon atoms." [jutta, Oct 30 2011]

On request, it seems http://www.cnn.com/...o-system/index.html
[theircompetitor, Dec 07 2011]

Pimp my octopus.
I like it.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Oct 29 2011


Green screens are just so 1970's …

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-- 8th of 7, Oct 29 2011


I like it, but it needs an emergency internal power supply, or the colony will die when the power goes out.
-- Alterother, Oct 29 2011


Hey, don't spray that lysol near my computer!
-- DIYMatt, Oct 29 2011


isn't that what Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) stand for?
-- fho, Oct 30 2011


Organic is not the same as alive, fho
-- theircompetitor, Nov 05 2011


would you feel niftylicious about printing say 7 microorganisms like

OO

OOO

OO

then having a lasermade tube above the center so that when the reproduced they placed a single cyte at the dot place ...:...

so youd print kinda bigger on one side to have unicyte printing on the other side
-- beanangel, Nov 18 2011



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