Ever found yourself without a signal and wished you could just spray one on like magic? Well, maybe soon, you’ll be able to do just that. Chamtech Enterprises has developed a spray-on antenna it says is more lightweight and energy-efficient than current technology. Revealed at Google’s inaugural Solve for X shindig, the antenna can be “painted” onto almost anything, including trees, walls and fabrics. Chamtech’s already talking with government-based customers, and as such can’t spill too much detail on how it works, but said it uses organic elements to tinker with magnetic and radio-frequency fields. The start-up’s CTO, Rhett Spencer, claims the antenna could increase mobile energy efficiency by 10 percent. It was also found to work particularly well under water, and being organic, we presume, would make it ideal for sub-aquatic telecom infrastructure, and of course, rainy days.

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So this is pretty cool; inventor Scott Amron has come up with a really interesting product for the hot beverage industry. We’ve told you about another product Scott came up with, the split ring key, which didn’t seem quite so useful.

The current technology involves using a thick piece of paper that has to be applied every time a cup of coffee is poured. The Heatswell cup incorporates a heat sensitive, biodegradable paper that is attached the cup during manufacture, which insulates and reacts to temperature. The Heatswell paper reacts dramatically, and can incorporate 3D effects and logos as well.

More information is available on the Heatswell website. Run a coffee shop? Ask for a few and see how they work.

To be fair, the $12,000 figure cited in the headline is pure guesswork on my part. But when the 40″ version of the TV, reviewed here at FlatPanelsHD, costs £6000 (about $10,000), it’s easy enough to do the math. These mega-lux TVs are meant to be the final word in current LCD TV technology — and will of course be worth less than a fig once AMOLED is the standard. Until then, however (probably two years), these B&O sets will remain, high-cost, high-quality, and high-fashion displays for you to watch heavily compressed cable news on.

Okay, okay, I’m being too harsh. The fact is these things look gorgeous and if they’d give me one, I’d gladly put it on my wall instead of the nothing that’s there right now. But the other fact is that they cost a huge amount of money and really, I doubt they produce $10,000 more picture quality than a mid-range Samsung (which provides B&O’s LCD panels) or another set aimed at mortals.

Apple iSlate should be this simple. With an aluminum or white polycarbonate body, perhaps even rubberized, and no bezel whatsoever, with a very thin black frame. It really doesn’t need anything else. Ogle its simple beauty in the gallery.

I like it. I would like the screen to reach the very edge of the device, but that’s probably not possible with the current technology.

But where’s the button, some may ask? I think that, for the iSlate, they can actually pass on the physical home button, since it doesn’t make much sense in a 10-inch format. I mean, where do you place it? In the bottom center? Two home buttons on the sides? One? On one corner? What corner? Instinctively, I don’t think it’s needed. And they always implement a hard-to-reach physical reset button on the back.

Hopefully, we will have answers at the end of the month. [Thanks Rodolphe Desmare for the art]

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