“That was the hardest part,” Zakharevich said, “figuring out how to make everything line up properly.” After she and Hull managed to fit their gadgets together, they could encode everything they ...

How does it work? First, to make it conductive, the paper is rubbed with a graphite pencil until its completely covered. Second, four voltage dividers are attached to the corners of the paper.

In a new paper, they took it a logical step further and determined that it should be theoretically possible to use these techniques to make a liquid crystal perform operations like a computer.

In a new paper, they took it a logical step further and determined that it should be theoretically possible to use these techniques to make a liquid crystal perform operations like a computer.