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Oct 15 2007

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Yamazaki
Silverbrook
Inventors
Gardner
Straeter & Weder
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Shunpei Yamazaki
Yamazaki (No. 1) in a lab outside Tokyo, with a circuit he developed that is fabricated on a piece of glass; it will allow computer monitors to be no thicker than a pane of glass.
Kia Silverbrook
Silverbrook (No. 2) in his laboratory at the company he co-founded, Silverbrook Research, in Sydney.
Forbes, Akram, Farnworth & Sandhu
From left, Leonard Forbes (No. 6), Salman Akram (No. 8), Warren Farnworth (No. 7), and Gurtej Sandhu (No. 5) in a clean-room environment at Micron's headquarters in Boise, Idaho.
Mark Gardner
Gardner (No. 9) in Driftwood, Texas. He perfected chips for A.M.D. for 24 years and now does the same for his own company.
Joseph Straeter and Donald Weder
Straeter (No. 10) and Weder (No. 3) photographed at Highland Supply Corp. in Highland, Illinois. At right is a plastic sleeve for a flowerpot invented by Weder.