Is there any word on the toxicity of these things vs. OLEDs? I would guess that both in manufacturing, and eventual disposal, CdSe might present more of a problem than many organic semiconductors.

Nope, these are fake sperm-shaped robots made in a lab. A girl-scientist could make them. Hurricanes are all you have left.

I don't want to respond to everyone calling this untrue, because of time, but I read your comments all the time and they're always smart, so I'll respond to you. My story, the one in which my engineering professor boss told me this, is 100% fact. His story may or may not be bullshit.

Yes, I am in science. But I don't claim it's true. I said I have "a story". It was told to me by a professor of engineering who I don't believe had a good reason to lie, but I have not done my own independent peer-reviewed study to confirm it. You may take it with a grain of salt.

Concur! They might even be doing us a favour, less calories than just adding more ice cream.

Ooh, I have a story about microbeads.

That's because it has a whole series of drawbacks to go along with its wonderful properties, but those don't make for very sexy reporting. And thank you, you've just given me an idea for the next post I write.

The first sentence from that skydiving article makes my brain hurt.

What I've learned from this is that futurists in 2014 may not have any new ideas, but they've managed to state the old ones much more concisely.

Here you go, from the original paper:

I dunno... I work doing research on solar cells and we're not inhibited by corporations at all. It's just really hard to keep making them better.

ITO is usually brittle — someone's going to come out with a flexible version of this using graphene any day now.

This makes no sense. I can scribble with a pencil and probably generate a bit of graphene along with a bunch of graphite. But I can't separate them and I can't do anything particularly special with graphene pieces that are that small. How is this any better? Besides now being covered with soap.

Aaaand there went an hour of my morning.

I dislike a lot of this, but I dislike "beyond organic" most of all.

My parents dealt with this in New Brunswick for the first time last year and they said it was the worst mosquito season they've ever experienced.

Someone made a perfect nanotube a meter long! Wow.

I always thought selfie loathing was kind of frivolous, but today I learned a thing. Hercules's beard: real yak hair.

*Looks down at lunch salad, shakes head sadly*

Speaking as someone who has dropped a cell-phone "in a solution", I think we already have electronics that can be shut down that way...