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Paper Mounted CPUs
Roland Piquepaille writes "Rafe Needleman discovered an interesting young Swedish company which is printing really cheap chips. "The company, Cypak, has technology to mount a very small microprocessor, which it created, on paper (or inside a credit card), as well as a technique to print sensors, switches, and very short-range antennae on the same paper, using special conductive inks." Here is one possible application designed for drug trials. "Drug trials need data about how and when subjects consume the drugs being tested. In this application, a pill pack registers when individual pills are popped out of their plastic bubbles; it then can beep and ask the user a question like, 'Are you feeling better today? Press Yes or No.' (The answer buttons are on the pack itself.) When the patient visits the doctor, the package is placed on a Cypak reader and the data is downloaded to the physician's computer." Visit this page for more information about Cypak or read the full Business 2.0 article."
I am waiting for smart toilet paper so it can tell me when I have wiped enough.. No more brown streaks!!
for the buffer overflow errors from happy prozac patients pushing yes one too many times.
EGG, the Electronic Gamers Guild
At last, I can have a paper aeroplane that I can program to seek and destroy.
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
I wonder whether or not something along the lines of a Mad fold-in will hold overclocking potential....
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...ladies and gentlemen, the real tablet PC...
Finally you can really get down into getting A's in the exams... Teacher thinking: "Why is that kid over there tapping on that blank paper?"
I can use use especially programmed paper as scratch paper on my next math exam...
Just need to figure out a way to make the "your answer is wrong" warning a quiet one.
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Where would you like to go today?
A: Fill a prescription
B: Test your blood
C: The morgue
anyone want a howler?
Can I reprogram my $1 bill to be a $20?
Edward Burr
Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool.
I'm thinking things that help you fold as you fold. "Sink here...Not like that, idiot."
by accident..may I have another one?
On y va, qui mal y pense!
I am well aware that some Slashdotters are paranoid about privacy rights and I make no judgement on that, but seriously dude, what planet are you from?
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More worringly, they could start putting chips in Kleenex to ascertain whether they're being used for their intended purpose :-O
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
You pull out a note pad and begin to write...
Dear Sally,
And your paper clip stands up and says "It looks like you're writing a letter, would you like help?".
You throw the paper clip in the trash, but before you can get rid of it, it winks at you. Scared yet?
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Paper airplanes with guidance systems!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
...Whatcha gonna do with the added heat from overclocking it? put a heat sink on it? what if its too much heat? You got yourself a great little match now don't cha? I'd love to see the converation you'll have with your insurace agent after the house burns down:
Agent: "What happened here?"
You: "Well I was overclocking my Mad Fold-in.."
or better yet
Agent: "What happened here?"
You: "Well I was overclocking my Playboy centerfold..."
Agent: "Overclocking eh?"
A Beowulf cluster of these! Definitely a novel approach, and you could rack-mount them on your bookshelf.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Does this mean that the paper my EULA is written on will have it's own EULA? (Which will have its' own EULA... so on and so on... ok I have to lay down now, my brain hurts.)
This idea looks great on paper....
In Soviet Russia, Chuck Norris will still kick your ass.