Theregister UK) promises no more nights on the porcelain throne Packaging
giant Bemis and Norway's ThinFilm will print sticky labels capable of
monitoring and remembering the conditions in which their attached goods have
been stored.
The labels will be developed from ThinFilm's printed memory
and PARC's printed transistors (which are licensed exclusively to ThinFilm).
Bemis will fund the development to create an "intelligent packaging
platform" powered from a printed battery and capable of sensing and
recording environmental experiences.
The first products will probably sense and record
temperature, though the idea is to create a platform to which other sensors can
be attached. Recorded data will be read by radio, perhaps using the RFID or NFC
communication standards but that hasn't been decided. The labels will be
powered as one has to have sufficient juice to record historical data.
This is just the kind of thing the printed electronics
business has been harping on about for years, but has proved surprisingly
elusive....
Read all about better living through modern science at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/11/printed_electronics/
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