Printed Electronics is Pivotal to the Future of Mobile Phones

Thanks to printed electronics, mobile phones will have large snap back keyboards, chargers and colour video displays and some of the displays will work well in sunlight. The rest of the world will copy the 40 million Japanese currently using phones to get onto transport and buy things in shops and at smart posters and one billion RFID enabled phones will eventually be sold every year. Miniaturising and cost reducing those phones and the smart posters, terminals for tourists and other items the phones will interrogate will be down to printed electronics. Indeed, a terminal will be reduced to being a label, shelf edge display or poster so it costs far less and does not get in the way. Then there is home medicine.