"Nothing says individuality like 500 million consumer electronics built by slaves," he says at one point.
The Philips programmable LED uses a separate router box, but the Australian LIFX bulb has the networking electronics built into the bulb itself.
The problem is physical: the body is soft, supple, and curved, but modern electronics, built on silicon computer chips, are rigid and flat, likely to shatter if dropped on a sidewalk.
Many think that flexible, wearable electronics built from organic materials could open up new applications for electronics.
Its PowerMate Eco PC is an all-in-one model with all the electronics built into the frame of a 15-inch LCD display.
Integrated electronics built into the car send sounds and images onto the device to flag up information or warnings to the driver.
Prototype devices with oxygenated silicon sensor and rad-hard electronics built in the IBM 0.25μm process have been tested and maintain good resolution, efficiency and timing performances even after receiving the design radiation damage of 1015neq/cm2.
In 2004, it created a spin-off called M-Design, run by Lee's son, which sells furniture with electronics built in.
The following decades saw the development of quartz clocks as precision time measurement devices in laboratory settings the bulky and delicate counting electronics, built with vacuum tubes, limited their practical use elsewhere.
"Each evening, I would come home and build electronics — make circuit boards, work with schematics, solder up parts, build my own little computers".
