Is there a carbon nanotube TV in your future? Maybe. As you may recall, a company called Applied Nanotube showed off a rather low-res (we’re talkin’ 280 x 200) proof-of-concept nanotube TV last year. Now the company has announced a letter of intent deal with a Taiwanese TV maker to create commercial sets based on Applied’s tech.
Carbon nanotube TV tech is similar in concept to CRT (cathode ray), with the carbon tubes shooting electrons at the screen, but here, the sets can be LCD-thin and the energy consumption is significantly less. Nanotube tech also does not experience the image ghosting found on larger LCD and plasma displays.
A spokesbot for the company said that trials of the sets could begin as early as later this year and that commercial production could be underway in two.