Hi,

I am wondering what are your opinions about that, and uses for cameras.

I designed a yeast-cell based LCD screen after graduating from MIT Biological Engineering department, and proposed it to a team of students in Valencia's polytechnic. We finished it recently and submitted for an iGEM competition at MIT, where we got third place overall, and bunch of other prizes.

In a word it is the first case of electrical stimulation of non-mammalian cells, and the first such application in bioelectronics.
(http://2009.igem.org/Main_Page ; http://2009.igem.org/Team:Valencia)

*Now, It is a very early stage design, but let me outline the advantages.*

- With a biological screen you can change the cells by simply squirting some liquid into the screen. So for example, if you would like to change the color response -
you buy new cells, and grow them. This will make updates to electronics really easy.

- You can engineer (or evolve!) your own screens adequately to your needs.

- You can easily change the sizes, and it can be flexible.


There are usual problems of early projects, such as low resolution, refreshing rate, dim response etc. But within time they might get better.

So now the question is, would you find it useful to be able to change properties of your LCD screens?

*If you could buy 'updates' to your electronics in the form of small vial which you have to dissolve in water and squirt in to enjoy better performance, would you find it useful?*


I have a couple new ideas for bioelectronics that can be evolved, updated for cheap and modified by simple lab practices. I am wondering how useful would you find it for digital imaging.

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