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  1. Re:Problem solved by Mr.+Rude · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose a Windows Laptop?

    http://www.etch-a-sketch.com/ Karma hit coming..... :D

  2. Re:demo please? by ozmanjusri · · Score: 2, Insightful · on A Practical LCD Writing Tablet
    I can just imagine a waxed cardboard toy pad with a motor driven lifter for the erase .

    Why not just shake it?

    It's close to being price-competitive with the old classic too. Once the immediate geek fuss fades, I'd say that's where its niche will be found.

  3. This has been done before! by kurt555gs · · Score: 2, Funny · on Freescale Unveils Design For $199 Tablet

    If only the Freescale device had 2 knobs.

    http://www.etch-a-sketch.com/

    Cheers

  4. Re:I once had one of those ... by Mikkeles · · Score: 5, Funny · on Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future
    An etch-a-sketch?

    I wonder if it has to be turned over and shaken to clear the screen?

  5. Re:But Flickr is hackable by theshowmecanuck · · Score: 5, Funny · on 17 Year Old Creates Flickr Competitor

    When I was ten, to reboot the computer you held it upside down over your head and shook it. Oh wait, that was 'Etch-a-Sketch'. Holy crap, how times have changed!

  6. wait a minute by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Digital Books Start A New Chapter

    this isn't new. this tech has been around for years.

  7. Re:It was smaller by slowbad · · Score: 1 · on How the PowerBook was Born
    PowerBook was smaller than the competing portables. It set the standard for what a good notebook is

    It was the exact same size as the red box from OHIO ART
    Come to think of it, both revolutionary graphics units consisted of only white screens with black lines in 1992!

  8. The Secret by udderly · · Score: 0, Offtopic · on Graphics in Science

    I know how they make these: it's with this!

  9. Remember these? by mabu · · Score: 1 · on Classic Toys For Christmas?
    The Department of Homeland Security apparently doesn't look kindly upon selling Rubics Cubes


  10. etch-a-sketch? by uodeltasig · · Score: 1 · on Shaking Hard Drives Instead of Spinning?

    Oh come on i've been 'storing data' on these "LCD sized harddrives" things for years. But shaking it side-to-side like they are suggesting just erases the data... at least its a quick format :)

    http://www.etch-a-sketch.com/

  11. Re:Nothing really new there... by Whalou · · Score: 1 · on The Secret Behind the iPod Scroll Wheel

    Just like an Etch-a-Sketch

  12. Re:Sounds Fun by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Mini-ITX Clustering
    I get disgusted by the fanns everywhere (especially since the one in my laptop makes an awful amount of noise sometimes and still doesn't prevent the beast from overheating and shutting down). Aside from being noisy, computers have way more CPU power than I need, and cost more than I am willing to spend. And they suck up a lot of power. (Some might add that they take a lot of space.


    How about this instead?

  13. Re:God... by c1ay · · Score: 5, Funny · on What Kind of Tablet PC to Buy?
    Here's the only reliable model that I know of...

  14. It works for Etch-A-Sketch by mariox19 · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Lego Goes Back to the Basics: Building Blocks

    I remember seeing on TV a while ago a story about Etch-A-Sketch. Talk about the "tried and true." Apparently, the company has stuck with this sole product forever and makes a boat load of money with it.

    That's not to say, though, that I wouldn't buy a Python programmable version of the toy ;-)

  15. high tech? by t0rnt0pieces · · Score: 1, Funny · on Paper Capable Of Playing Videos Developed

    (With apologies to David Spade)
    I liked it better the first time...
    When it was called Etch-A-Sketch.

  16. Additional Information by Bame+Flait · · Score: 5, Funny · on Lycoris Announces Desktop/LX Tablet Edition

    I've managed to uncover the manufacturer - their web site is here

    Rumor has it that there are stylus limitations, however.

  17. Re:Nice concept by srmalloy · · Score: 3, Funny · on Peephole Displays
    Nice concept, but I wouldn't want to use it in a bus or such. It real life it would crave some sort of gyro to detect movement. Imagine a bus rounding a corner and the text compensating by scrolling. At least it would serve as amusement to the fellow busriders.

    With a gyroscope/accelerometer arrangement to detect movement, you could set it up so that you clear the screen by turning it over and shaking it.
  18. One More Questions I Have by 4mn0t1337 · · Score: 1 · on Full Color Electronic Paper a Reality
    When an electrode in the upper surface is given a negative charge, it attracts granules towards it, making the surface appear white.

    What? I don't have to turn it upside down and shake it to clear the screen??

    That's no fun...

    ______

  19. Re:cool by b0z · · Score: 4 · on Maxtor's "Sturdy" Hard Drive
    Now when I get the blue screen o death and decide to chuck the box out a 10 story window, the hardrive might still work.

    Wrong. You simply open up your hard drive case, turn the platter upside down and use the other side. I can see some good potential uses. The first dual boot system where to go from windows to linux you simply flip your pc over. It's almost like an electronic etch a sketch.

  20. Re:How *thick* are the web pads? by billstewart · · Score: 1 · on Another Peep From Transmeta
    Vaio is that thick because it's got a keyboard and folding parts. A flat webpad doesn't need that.


    The Crusoe-powered S3 internet appliance on Transmeta.com looks suspiciously like an Etch-A-Sketch.