Originally, plasma display technology was developed back in the 1960s as a screen for the PLATO teaching computer system. It was a simple, monologue display of the brightest orange that measured in at about an inch thick. Back then, nobody had any idea that plasma would some day lead a revolution into the lounge room… More »
We bumped into Larry Weber, the shaggy professor mainly responsible for the invention of the plasma TV in the 1960s. He’s got a lot to say about his latest project, mostly too technical for our hurting little brains. Here’s the skinny: He wants to improve notoriously inefficient plasma energy use to a point that it drains a battery less than the LED light source in an LCD does. Pair that with super-thin plasma technology, and voila—plasma-screen MacBook Pro anyone? We were just kidding about that whole “saving Middle Earth” business…or were we? [Larry Weber's Society for Information Display]
