First, Philips made this electronic ink technology with paper-thin displays and doesn’t use up too much power. Then comes this sweat/blood enabled super thin black paper that could function as a supercapacitor or a battery (dunno what’s super about it… maybe because the distance between plates is so thin, it could reach near 1 Farad, courtesy of the carbon nanotubes filling). The good thing about this is, most of our computer components are made up of, mostly, capacitors, memory (volatile and non-volatile), resistors, a few coils for current stabilizers, called inductors, and a bunch of silicon for logic gates, aka transistors. I’ve heard about thin resistors and thin inductors (actually, most design don’t really use that much inductors). But never heard of worthy-thin capacitors (if it’s too thin, it would be useless). And talk about thin batteries!

Now that’s something to watch out for!

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