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Puzzle Series: What is this, or what do you want it to be?
32 responses to “What’s That? (61)”
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Well, I saw this before you put the title. I liked the design. Now that I know that I should or can decide what it could be, then I know.
A serving tray with a computer chip design (or something like that). It would be quite lovely to serve tea or food on this. It would have to be larger I suppose.
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Looks like some sort of encoding is going on, probably two dimensions of position. Or maybe an antenna or RF circuit.
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It does look like solar cells, but since that was already guessed, I’m going to guess that it is a patch antenna.
Secretly I wish that it was a new low cost super efficient solar cell that perhaps President Bush is referring to in this article.
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With that in mind, then I guess that it is an inverter with optical or RF characteristics… OR, maybe a backlight inverter for an LCD screen.
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Ah, so what is hiding underneath!?
It is upside down. It looks tiny next to the specks in the counter. I bet it would make a great coaster for my tea cup!
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How about wishful thinking?
I want that to be a PCB transformer, so I don’t have to carry around a wall-wart for my cell phone/pda/ipod/digital camera/et cetera. Devices equiped with the new printed boards have simple flip-out prongs which can be plugged into any standard wall socket, and the AC-DC conversion takes place within the device itself.
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"a way…" =D
in zig zags perhaps…?
if you read it as the pentagram -as Jeroen marked… There´s a secuence there. Something has to read this and "follow" the way… the lines…
the squares… maybe the are "stops" in the timeline, on the road… "stops" or any other comand… "flash" "jump", "connect"…
Loos like something should make a wonderful dance following that prints…
"inverted" maybe because the sheet is upside down?
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another thing I thought of… it looks like a blueprint of a ceiling -problaby of a super fashionable and modern building- with light spots (the squares), their rails (the fine lines) and maybe… walls (the gross lines)
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Alieness: you are a Dance Dance Revolution photon doing the twist!
Robbie1: 80% Bingo for you… but you posed it as a question… To which I would say "yes"… and that addresses the laser light in my first comment and the "ping pong" of photons to Zenera, and the coherency query to the Rocketeer…
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Bingo Robbie1 & Rocketeer, the puzzle closer extraordinaire. It is, in fact, a laser + diode. So it produces light, rather than absorbing it like a solar cell.
More specifically, it is the world’s first continuous beam silicon laser, which may be useful for future computing interconnects or optical integrated circuits in telecom.
On this “standard CMOS” silicon chip, Intel built an externally pumped Raman laser integrated with a PIN diode, such that the P and N channels on each side of the serpentine waveguide sweep free electrons from the light path allowing for continuous operation. (Intel Press Release)
Here is a Flash demo & explanation from Intel with dancing electrons and all the fanfare.
Mimosa: the serving tray idea was interesting, because the chip is floating above the pebble surface below. It is mounted in the top of a gelpack plastic case, which also results in the reflective glare at the top of the chip.
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My mind works in mysterious ways. I love gadgets, even have had ideas, but do not have the technical knowledge to invent them. However, I see the beauty in things. So I saw the beauty of the rectangle. It is probably tiny but it could be any size. The design is wonderful. How about reproducing these in larger size as trays for a modern house?!
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It seems to me that not only can this technology be used to send data through fiber, but it could be used to produce a laser TV with red, green and blue emitters that can be combined to make any color. I’m curious to see the applications that are generated with this new technique.
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Absolutely, in the abstract. Not a laser like this, but semiconductor lasers in general could make big TVs quite affordable.
Luminus Devices was demonstrating their Phlatlight technology at CES last month. They use sub-wavelength photonic lattices to booth light output from a semiconductor laser. It is very different from the Intel design, optimized for the light intensity and color spectrum integrity needed for large TVs vs. Intel’s focus on standard CMOS silicon process integration. The silicon laser works in the infrared as it is opaque to visible light.
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