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Electronic Paper Advances
ke4roh writes "Electronic paper comes a step closer," says a Reuters article today. The paper, made by E-ink bends and makes for a higher contrast display, perhaps for e-books and cell phones. It reminds me of Jim Willard's Paper Computer, but their web site is history. Slashdot previously discussed color electronic paper."
Will I have to worry about electrocution when I wipe my bum?
Electronic aper comes a step closer
Get your hands off me, you damn, dirty electronic aper.
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Now, whenever I wear the same shirt every day of the week, nobody will know!
My fav quote from one of my fav business men, Mr. Dyson: "A paperless office is about as likely as a paperless toilet." ;-)
always makes me chuckle...
Dave
Exactly. Before we get caught up in the concept of wearble displays, I want my flying car! Heck I want my flying Jetsons-esque city! Crap, I settle for an affordable HDTV.
Some idiot will ask how to put it into the photocopier or fax machine :)
I hate every aper I see...from chimpan-a to chimpan-z.
You know what?
What, do you think paper grows on TREES??
Forget the whales - save the babies.
Now just add in a few wooden peripherals, and the occasional pigeon for the networking, and you'll be all set!
Pound! Bang! Bin! Bash! is this a shell script or a Batman comic?
"I do look forward to fully interactive e-ink, so that, say, you could have a notebook with e-ink paper, you jot down notes with a stylus, the paper shows the proper marks so it feels just like regular writing, but with the options to save notes, recall them later, and memory that allows one notebook to keep the information that a whole stack of real notebooks couldn't hold."
We already have this - it's called an etch-a-sketch. To save documents, don't shake it. To erase documents, do shake it.
You can even save many pages (write smaller) and best of all the batteries last forever!
Beep beep.
God, I probably shouldn't write this down, because it could get implemented for real and then even if the developer never saw this post I'd get blamed and . . .
Anyway.
Imagine if the price tags fixed on stores shelves were made of this stuff. Not only would it allow Wal-Mart to slash prices without using that hideous flying yellow smile-face robot*, but the prices could be CUSTOMIZED to YOU, flickering to show a new value as you enter an aisle.
People who try to avoid this scheme by wearing retina-shield glasses or digging out there ID implant would be charged full price
Stefan
* Wal-Mart has done an excellent job covering up the Toledo incident, in which the store's slashbot disembowelled a kid wearing a number jersey. The splatter of blood on that diabolical smiling yellow face inspired a protest button that, for some reason, is still worn by comic book afficianodoes.
This kind of paper comes in handy when you are shopping.
Yeah check said $1324.22 when I gave it to the cashier...
From the article:
"The human eye blends these resulting patterns of black- or white-topped capsules into text displayed in a traditional column."
Oh, is THAT how pixels work?
i thought a single cd cost around $255,000 to produce?
or is that just an RIAA myth
liqbase
a world in progress...