25 November 2004

Brit ingenuity -again

We do oursleves down but the British are actually pretty good at inventing things [prabably got something to do with high tolerance of eccentricity!]. Well here's some UK-based good news for anyone who likes the idea od flat-screen montiors and TV. A brit has invented a way of doing it very cheaply....
"'The manufacturing costs are so low because this falls within the scope of existing injection-moulding techniques. We are told that it will take about $500,000 to make a mould and that a dedicated machine to make these would cost around $6m. This compares with the $2.8bn that Samsung needs to spend every time it builds a new plant for Transflective LCD screens,' explained Travis."
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