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Electronic Paper
Omega Prime writes: "The BBC has an article about the latest advances in E-Paper. That is, flexible display media that is both cheap and reuseable. The possibilities for this are endless, Can you say Holodeck wallpaper?" There's also an AP article. Do you ever get the feeling that electronic paper is going to be just around the corner for a long, long time?
Although flexible electronic display media may someday surpass paper's resolution and readability, it will never equal its absorbency.
The previous mental connection explains why I bust out in grins whenever someone mentions "the paperless office." The image of a pointy-haired boss beckoning pitifully from the executive washroom door comes to mind every time.
...that michael is a real bummer to be around at parties?
I'd like to see beowulf on a cluster of these!
Oh, man. I don't think I'm ready to open up a book and see the author introducing the book in full motion video on the first page, and the trailer for the movie on the last...
SIGFEH
.... that e-paper is just around the corner, because someone told me that E-Paper Moves Closer and someone else said that Electronic paper moving off the drawing board and then I heard that that Full Color Electronic Paper was a Reality.
.... if I got a nickle for every time.....
-Kraft
Live and let live
so having a display on paper gives a whole new ;)
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meaning to burn-in, eh?
can't help it, one more:
it can't be to hard to push the envelope with
this technology: just fold and
oo! oo! one more:
eh... and then there's the cutting edge
to be considered also...
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sigamajig...
It's said that the pr0n industry drove the internet and more noteably the WWW to the position it's in today. It seems likely that e-paper would be a useful addition to the pr0nographer's trade. Moving and changeable erm... articles with the added advantage of being easy to hide and, of course, wipe-clean.
...Transparent clothing with smoothly moving semi-transparent areas ....
...She dimmed the lights and slowly turned off her blouse.
Evil is the money of root.
I had the opportunity to experiment with a small sample of ePaper and was very disappointed for the following reasons:
1. It was not very reusable. After making one paper airplane, the creases remained very pronounced and at some folds it looked a little cracked.
2. The airplanes I made did not fly very far or well. The material is both heavy and limp.
I cannot imagine ever switching to E-Paper until it is much lighter and stiffer.
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