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Digital Clock as Thin as Paper
Elitist_Phoenix writes "Citizen Watch has created a clock that is Paper thin! This unique design is enabled by E Ink Imaging Film. In addition to the fact that no backlighting is required, the display also has an inherently stable memory effect which requires no power to maintain an image - both of which drastically increase the battery life. The result is 1/100 the power consumption of traditional display options. Citizen Watch Co. and T.I.C.-Citizen Co. have not yet announced a launch date for this product, but it is expected to be commercialized in Japan in 2005."
Now I can lose my watch that much easier!
I can't wait to see when these same guys make a single sheet of paper as thick as a digital clock! It would be sweet. I don't think I see many uses for it though...
A guy walks into a bar... well, I forgot the joke, but the punchline is that he's an alcoholic.
Paper-thin redefined as cardboard-thick!
This could make the best t shirt ever. Of course you could probably never wash it, but who cares if you smell. You'd be too pimpin for people to complain.
...reasonably priced, non-DRM'd, long lasting battery...
Pick two, then we'll talk.
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." G.W.Bush
I guess we can accurately now say:
Even a stopped Citizen ePaper clock is right twice a day.
This assumes that it's on 12 hour mode, of course.
Well, why not get this grafted into your arm? Just look at your wrist and see the time.
Unfortunately, this could lead to your damnation if you put it on the back of your right hand and you're alive during the end times and you're not a christian before the rapture and it says 6:66 because.. uh... the antichrist likes metric time?
sure, make it compatable with standard document types, Doc, PDF, plaintext, and html
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
Expect Flava Flav to start his own line of clock suits with this technology. YYYEEEAAAHHH BBBOOOYYY!!!!!!
are we talking notebook computers? Isn't there already a little clock on the screen in the lower-right corner (in both windows and linux)?
How about... wallpaper full of these things?
You still wouldn't have two showing the same time.
Why not just staple it to yourself? Then it wouldn't get lost. And you wouldn't need a band. The benefits are many!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
How much to have one of these implanted right underneath my skin on my inner left wrist running off of electricity generated from my blood sugar?
I'd never need another watch.
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man: no entry for woman in the manual.
"Qua!?"
You're right, it wouldn't be too appealing to be eating breakfast, and then a gaping anus shows up on the cereal box. Or even worse, a penis infected with STDs and corn flakes stuck to the wounds.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
A beowulf book of these. :)
My powerbook has a clock in the UPPER-right corner. That's how I know it's better than windows.
"But sir, it is only wafer thin..."
Where did you find a Gnome with a built-in clock?
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
So, twenty-six years after the publication of the Hitchhiker's Guide, and we still think digital clocks are a pretty neat idea.
Humanity is doomed.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. - Will Duran
My Gnome sent me a post card from Guatemala, and it clearly is wearing a wristwatch in the picture.
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
"[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] is a galactic bestseller everywhere except on that backward planet Earth, where they still think digital watches are 'A pretty neat idea'.""
E pluribus unum
I want a license plate made out of that stuff.
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