Overheard at the "INTELLIGENT PRINTING" conference, Oct 2006
"We're in the business of putting goo on a substrate."
"We need a taxonomy for 'printing-that-is-no-longer-printing.'"
"Your mega-customer, the anchor tenant in the mall of your dreams"
"It's the business of killing trees and putting chemicals on them."
"Baseball cards that suck in energy and run e-ink animated displays"
"They're not hiding, they're just selective."
"We help companies put together arguments and stories to win that venture money."
"Those Austrian farm-boys didn't know that ink-plants were supposed to be messy, so that was one of the cleanest plants they ever had."
"Electronic cardboard blurs the line between printed objects and the virtual world."
"The supply chain is a network of atoms."
"Six trillion RFID tags is four orders of magnitude bigger than any electronic item ever made."
"You can't take on the Silicon Gorilla face to face."
"Fluidic Self-Assembly Machines aren't 'printing' – they're the competition."
"Displays are sold by the acre, not the function."
"Nano-sized particles bring mega-sized costs."
"The fabs of the future will be pressrooms."
"We're blowing dog-whistles in a city full of cats."
"If not for the one-percent inspiration, that would have just been a lot of sweat."
"Extrapolate and retropolate."
"The organic light starts decaying."
"The US government can't make a penny for a penny. How can we make RFID tags for a penny?"
"Silicon chips with a cardboard substrate? That's not a good marriage!"
"You can strap the chip to the package, but the strap costs more than the chip."
"A hundred microns is gonna kill ya."
"It's our metallo-organic approach versus the incumbent technologies."
"Shrinkage brings the flakes into contact and creates the circuit."
"Go read the patents! They're public domain!"
"Thermochromic ink is the Pet Rock ink of the New Millennium."
"Ergonomic and immediate unambiguous authentication"
"quantum-dot anti-counterfeiting"
"It takes forty-eight hours to counterfeit a golf club in Vietnam."
"Clemson is the Harvard of cardboard packaging."
"That's your tuition you just spilled on the floor there."
"It's bubble, bubble, toil and trouble in conductive polymer."
"If it's matrix-based, you're going to get some serration."
"Maybe we need intelligent ink."
