The idea uses tiny, widely spaced tiny circuitelements embedded within a stretchy polymer and connected with wires that "popped up" as the polymer was stretched.
If the court rules against the cable companies, agreeing with the 9th Circuit that cable contains elements of a telecommunications service, it could give new life to small ISPs like Brand X, allowing them access to cable networks and providing a new stream of revenue.
It sells vehicle charging stations, circuit protection equipment and transformers that are key elements of the infrastructure needed to support electric vehicles.
That effort was shot down by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but the court left a door open for ISPs, ruling that cable transmissions had elements of both information and telecommunications services.