The company, Thin Film Electronics, has a license with reasearch center PARC (inventor of the graphical user interface and the computer mouse) to market printable microelectronics devices.

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That film starred Mr. Carell in the title role of Andy, a shy guy working in an electronics store, while one of Andy's co-workers, Cal, was played by Seth Rogen, who helped inspire the idea for this film.

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Even more fundamentally, the digital economy's infrastructure has advanced basic material science and classes of machine tools that have led directly to the new high-power electronics (enabling hybrids) and to big, cheap flat-panel, thin-film PVs (derived from the massive thin-film machines that make flat-panel-TVs).

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