Layers of material which work as filters, electrodes, transistors and the liquid crystal itself are deposited onto a thin glass plate to form a sandwich that is covered with another pane of glass.

Here and there one still finds the remnants of a menagerie, a brain plate covered with figures.

I don't remember anything but eating spaghetti one night and my brother falling asleep with his face flat in his plate of noodles covered in red sauce.