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Using a nanoparticle-based ink made from suspending nano-size semiconductor particles in a liquid, researchers spray the components onto a plastic substrate. Jacobson's group has already succeeded in using an ordinary Hitachi ink jet printer to make several components for a printable computer.

He also foresees being able to eventually produce a printed chip that could rival an Intel Pentium processor. Jacobson has said that his group will be able to produce a simple printed microprocessor in late 2001 or early 2002. One of the scientists leading this printable computer revolution is Joseph Jacobson of MIT Media Lab's Nano Media Group. Flexible ink-like circuitry will be printed onto plastic or sprayed onto various other substrates, such as clothes. Photo courtesy Nano Media Group at MIT's Media Lab An ink jet printed thermal actuatorįew argue that the next generation of computers will be nearly invisible, meaning that they will blend in with everyday objects. Users will simply download microchip designs from the Internet and print out a working ink-based, plastic processor on a desktop fabrication machine, similar to an ink jet printer. However, researchers are developing ways to allow anyone to become their own microprocessor fabricator. Few computer enthusiasts have the resources to make their own computer chips.

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A microprocessor fabrication plant costs $2 billion and takes two full weeks to produce one silicon-based microprocessor.

Manufacturing computers is a costly and time-consuming undertaking. While computer manufacturing has made great strides in the last half-century, the manufacturing process is still limited to a handful of companies.

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Since the invention of the transistor in the 1940s, computers have shrunk from behemoth machines that took up multiple rooms to portable devices the size of paperback books that can perform hundreds of millions of operations per second. Few industries can boast the huge leaps in technology that the computer industry has made in the last 50 years. Photo courtesy Nano Media Group at MIT's Media Lab

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