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PARC Begins Work on Printed Flexible Audio Speakers

Potential applications for FlexTech project include smart packaging, wearables and the IoT.

The ability to communicate with consumers is not necessarily through visual keys alone. Audio capabilities are also an excellent approach. However, the development of cost-effective, mass producible, truly thin speakers has yet to take off.   PARC, a Xerox Company, may have the key to unlocking this technology. In conjunction with FlexTech, a SEMI Strategic Association Partner, PARC researchers are working on a one-year project developing paper-like smart tags printed flexible audio speakers t...

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