Just from experience with fabricating multi-layer PC boards, I know that we are entering "interesting times". The limit has become your imagination -- if you can visualize a "window-cling" application you can now build it. And since the temperature regime has been lowered, little projects like printing a timer/detonator circuit directly onto an explosive compound should now be considered problematic in a whole different way...
I have notebooks filled with "blue-sky" applications for 'wearable' designs, restricted only by the availability of simple printable circuitry. Remember those ultra-fancy automotive paint jobs with multiple layers of paint and sealant and sparkle/flake, the ones that would all but glow in the dark?? The same multi-layered approach, given flexible circuitry and OLED illuminators -- awesome potential for high-tech 'jewelry' with smart-phone capabilities, for example.
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