{"id":8831,"date":"2006-03-20T23:08:32","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T23:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8831"},"modified":"2006-03-20T23:08:32","modified_gmt":"2006-03-20T23:08:32","slug":"the-bucky-boob-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8831","title":{"rendered":"The Bucky Boob Tube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carbon_Nanotubes\" target=\"new\">carbon nanotube<\/a> TV in your future? Maybe. As you may <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hdbeat.com\/2005\/09\/07\/carbon-nanotube-tv-proof-of-concept\/\" target=\"new\">recall<\/a>, a company called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nano-proprietary.com\/index.htm?ani.htm\" target=\"new\">Applied Nanotube<\/a> showed off a rather low-res (we&#8217;re talkin&#8217; 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&#8217;s tech. <\/p>\n<p> 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.<\/p>\n<p> 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. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1041_3-6051476.html?part=rss&#038;tag=6051476&#038;subj=news\" target=\"new\">Full story on CNet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;re talkin&#8217; 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8831\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Bucky Boob Tube&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scitech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}