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.
Netherparts explained that the new technology would allow every surface of every object to be a television set, instead of just every electronic object in the world as can already be done.
"You could watch TV on your tablet, your laptop, your game console, your phone, your glucose monitor," he said. "But that was child's play compared to this."
"This is why I'm a scientist," he said. "Never again will anyone have to be alone with their horrible, uncomfortable thoughts. Not when you can call up anything from The Match Game to American Idol on every surface in your home, any time of the day or night."
Netherparts had no comment on a rumored Netflix deal.