Is this the end of the bulb? The 'lightpaper' that can turn ANYTHING into a light
- Team can print sheets of 'paper' infused with tiny LEDs
- When current runs through the diodes, they light up
- Can be applied to walls, and even printed onto any shaped object
It could mean the end for lightbulbs - and turn any object in your home into a light.
Researchers have revealed lightpaper, a way to print sheets of 'paper' infused with tiny LEDs.
They say it can be applied to walls, and even printed onto other objects - turning anything into a light.
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Idaho researchers have revealed lightpaper, a way to print sheets of 'paper' infused with tiny LEDs - and it can even be used to print wallpaper that doubles as a light.
Lightpaper is manufactured by mixing ink and tiny LEDs together and printing them out on a conductive layer. It can even be used as wallpaper
The breakthrough has been likened to the emergence of 3D printing, and the firm behind it admits even it isn't sure how it will be used.
The world's thinnest light, it is printed and flexible, Rohini, the firm behind it says.
'Today's lighting methods require soldering LED to circuit boards - now you can just print light on what you want'.
The firm has shown off wallpaper , car logos and even snowboards with display using the paper built in.
'With Lightpaper it's more of a platform of light that we don't even know how it's going to be used,' Rohinni CMO Nick Smoot told Fastco.
'All we know is that we're trying to unlock the ability to create light.'
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