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Planned Obsolescence Takes a Step Forward

posted by n1 on Saturday April 05 2014, @10:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the do-printer-ink-manufacturers-hold-the-patents? dept.

Blackmoore writes:

Science daily brings us Materials, electronics that dissolve when triggered being developed.

Iowa State University is developing "transient materials" and "transient electronics" that can quickly and completely melt away when a trigger is activated. That could mean that one day you could send out a signal to destroy a lost credit card, or when soldiers are wounded, their electronic devices could be remotely triggered to melt away.

So I'm expecting to see products that not only will fail, but actually dissolve into uselessness when it's corporate master deems fit.

Does anyone have a problem with this?

The paper and abstract can be found here.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 06 2014, @02:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 06 2014, @02:41AM (#26922)

    Ford[...]thick-film ignition
    Sounds like this guy. [google.com] He's quite competent.
    I suspect bean counters and "industrial engineers" and their Muntzing. [googleusercontent.com]
    (orig) [wikipedia.org]

    -- gewg_