Scientists in Burbank, California verified the achievement of a major milestone on Wednesday: A full- HDMI television display etched into the surface of a one-micron-square chip of silicon.
"This is a huge step, a proof-of-concept of our Video Everywhere initiative," exclaimed Dr. Harry Netherparts, chief researcher at the Institute for Video Convergence. "Now we can put a screen on anything, literally anything."
"Life just got one whole heck of a lot better," he said proudly.
"Sure, maybe science didn't manage the flying cars, or the utopian future a la Buckminster Fuller, or solving world hunger, or colonies on Mars, or the other things people hoped we'd do, but look at the upside: we can now watch any television show or movie, anywhere, at any time, no matter what we're doing."
"Life has finally become a Qwest commercial," he said happily.
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