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Fujitsu Debuts Bendable Electronic Paper
An anonymous reader writes "Fujitsu today announced their joint development of the world's first film substrate-based bendable color electronic paper with an image memory function. The new electronic paper features vivid color images that are unaffected even when the screen is bent, and features an image memory function that enables continuous display of the same image without the need for electricity. The thin and flexible electronic paper uses very low power to change screen images, thereby making it ideal for displaying information or advertisements in public areas as a type of new electronic media that can be handled as easily as paper. The jointly developed electronic paper will be showcased at Fujitsu Forum 2005, to be held July 14 and 15 at Tokyo International Forum."
I remember reading a story ("news") like this couple months ago.
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the first one of you that says "minority report" gets a punch in the mouth. you can't have anything new anymore without some schmuck saying "omg minority report!" bleh.
I thought it couldn't be done, but they've managed to create digital paper... TWICE, in a matter of days. What an age we live in.
So maybe the paperless office will appear before the paperless toilet?
They need to get it to display: First Post!
I was thinking a "Hello World!" was in order.
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If Microsoft start buying add space on toliet rolls, at least I have the option of wiping my arse with it.....
This looks great but can some people please think of better applications than advertising...
Surely Fujitsu have more exotic plans for this technology than curved posters ?
Yay, no more dealing with expensive printer cartridges!
The human race is artificial intelligence created using object orientated programming.
Paper that changes what's written on it to suit what the reader wants? We've had that for over 200 years in the US. We call it the Constitution.
This must just be news because it's color.
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am I the first one to think of this?
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http://www.fujitsu.com/img/PR/2005/20050713-01.jpg
At 2:19am, I just want to look at pictures.
Remember the Phones they had in that series, this would be a step in that direction?
This will bring new meaning to a funny image I saw that had the hand-written message "I kant tipe so i rite on the screen wit a krayon"
Seriously though, I've seen enough professors accidentally write on a projector screen (instead of the whiteboard behind it) and leave a relatively permanent mark. I can only imagine how many people will accidentally jot down a quick note to later realize they just ruined a VERY expensive piece of paper...
that "Red Planet" wasn't so far off after all.
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If this paper is able to give the user a papercut, I'd say this definitely classifies as bleeding-edge technology.
I would love to have an e-ink display for my computer, so that I could use it to read long texts. Even if e-ink is not fast enough for GUI stuff (I guess), it might make a good secondary display on the desktop.
Where are the end-user products? The only thing I've heard of so far is the mystical ebook-reader from Sony, available in Japan only.
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I wonder if this technology will ever be realized as a whole new way to distribute information. It can potentially cut down on the cost of paper and ink, not to mention reduce the amount of trees being cut down for paper. I hope this idea gets heavily pursued by anyone who has the knowhow to further it.
The current paper features vivid color images that are unaffected even when the paper is bent, and features a multi image function that enables continuous display of different images using multiple pages of papers without the need for electricity. The thin and flexible paper uses no power to change images, thereby making it ideal for displaying information or advertisements in public areas as a type of new electronic-less media that can be handled as easily as paper.
it looks like it needs a little work in the area of color and resolution, but that's sure to come.
One thing that I think will really benefit from these reflective display technologies is classrooms and conference rooms. What I would really like to see would be a chalkboard-sized reflective display with a digitizer pen. Without dimming the lights like one would have to do with a projector (and thus lulling students to sleep), a teacher could write directly on it as well as have problems already in the computer to put up on it quickly. How much time in math classes is spent writing out problems? Word problems from all these standardized tests could be quickly thrown up on the board and the teacher could directly model how to solve them. It could really increase a teacher's efficacy as well as make their life a lot easier.
Later on, similar technologies could be built into desks (or the students could have tablets) so that the student can solve them at their desks and then the teacher could push a button and display the students' work on the board.
How easy is it to clean these things? I mean, if the porn industry really provides the push for new technology, they gotta be extra easy to clean.
Sweet jesus! Now I'm going to need tiny hydrogen-based fuel cells to power my beowulf cluster of electronic papers. I think I shall call such a collection a "notepad."
..for a two sheet 8 1/2" version in "hardbook" binding with the ability to read PDF's off of compactflash or sd or memory stick.
I have way too many e-books and a laptop screen just doesn't cut it.
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Anyone know if the pixels can be turned off so as to be transparent? If so, you could stack a bunch of these and have a very nice 3D display. Of course, if it's only slightly transparent, it'll probably be opaque after 4 or 5 layers.
Let's see...
Large piece of this electronic "paper," say, a size of a placemat, plus a paperclip-like rechargable storage device that can clip onto the paper that can receive its nightly feed via a USB dock and an internet connection... paperless newspaper anyone? Sure, it would annoy the housewives who are used to getting their ads with the Sunday edition (and this might be the biggest argument against such a system), but it'd save tons of money in publishing costs, not to mention all the trees that get processed just for the morning paper.
I've always wanted homework that changed so I got all the answers wrong..... (note: I was kidding. I know it isn't feasible to use this for homework paper. The dog that eats it would have one helluva stomach ache.)
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It's interesting work. It's a lot like this but the memory feature described in the article makes it very unique. I can't wait for the day I can plug my own personal electronic newspaper into some public outlet to get the newspaper. Better yet, getting this in schools will save a lot of children from back pains.
Now I may buy a full-size playmate poster that will change everymonth!!! Or everytime they undergo surgery all posters around the wolrd will change to reflect the increased volume of their... errr.. well, you know.
Cool!!!
I prefer printed documents because I can take quick notes, underline parts, highlight interesting/important sentences, etc. I can't study on a PDF displayed on the computer because I can't do all these things.
Now, if I had one or two A4-sized electronic paper sheets, with a touch screen on top so I can make annotations with my stylus, then I would be able to stop using dead trees for studying...
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Imagine what something like this could do for laptop screens? Unless you're playing an FPS, a computer screen is fairly static - so updating the screen and then 0 power consumption until you do something... man oh man!
What's the refresh rate like? Can it be backlit? Having a laptop you can read in the sun might be quite nice...
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
Would it survive folding sharply?
I believe that this technology can scale much better than cell phones and advertising. Think televisions!
Right now we have heavy CRT projection TVs, very hot plasmas, and very small LCD screens. This electronic paper, made so thin, could reduce the weight of a television so much, it could be mounted to a wall without attaching it on a stud. Energy consumption would be kept at a minimum, while retaining intense color. It would be great for airports that air CNN or any other news station with the news ticker.
There are a lot of applications for a technology that can change what is printed. Check out this keyboard for instance
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what if they started making shirts with this e-paper attached on the front? change your clothes via USB. I'm not sure how durable this stuff is, but if you put it in some sort of protective coating it should be good? hell, I'm sure someone would start an advertising business out of it, "Wear Microsoft ads on your shirt and get paid!"
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i thought flexible organic LEDs were going to be the great bendable color screens of the future. so is this somehow better than foLED? anyone care to make a quick comparison of pro's and con's?
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Ahh, makes me proud to be working for Fujitsu despite a) not being involved in this project in any way, b) prolly not going to be involved in anything hi-tech like this anyway.
But hey, go Fujitsu!
The picture used in the demo is a well known Ukiyo-e.
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Seashells my arse! We used pinecones, and we were happy!
I bet you can't fold it more than 7 times.
Yeah, gr8ly done.
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The last I looked the cost of one of these is intended to be low, after all it has to compete with real paper, talk about cheap. Now if the density of the display is high, the colors can be made accurate and the state change speed is high you could replace every display in the world. A screen that can be rolled up, is as thin as "paper", that can be any size. I'll take my cheap, low power consumption Hi def Palm/portable and can I have a side of Ultra HDTV for my entire wall, Please. There may be some technical hurdles to jump but this could cause a new revolution of products. Right now, how about a keyboard with keys that change to a selected font or the selected function desired. Hey wait, that's patentable, I get these ideas all the time, but I've probably said to much...
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As an amatuer writer, this can be pretty exciting to finally have the best of paper combined with the best of computers and put together a Tablet PC with decent battery life which isn't available with a conventional LCD screen.
These days I still print out hundreds of pages just to edit my stories - editting is a pain in the ass in the conventional computer just because erasing a line with a mouse while seated upright doesn't give the same satisfaction and oversight as crossing it out with a pen and adding notes in between the margins by writing naturally while in a recliner^_^
E-books are great, but without a really readable display they won't be able to gain the acceptance of the curl-up-in-bed books. Can't wait to have one book and that's all--one that stores or downloads the content of thousands.
Maybe this technology could help bring down the cost of producing one of these? http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/ 14/1335215&tid=126&tid=159&tid=227
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The electronic paper would therefore always be a secondary display, for static information. Obvious usage examples are to extend the display area of mobile devices such as phones or PDA's. The interesting thing is that for such applications the curvature of the bend of the electronic paper is a key issue. You see, if the curvature is not big enough, the paper will not roll-up into the device whilst keeping the device size small.
By the looks of the photo in the article, the curvature is nowhere near good enough to allow the paper to be rolled into a small radius roll of paper that would comfortably fit in a hand-held device design.
I wonder how much longer it'll be until we see clothes made with this sort of tech. I'll be he first one in line to buy that Panther Modern,Lupus Yonderboy jacket.
I know it may look like parent is insulting grandparent, but this is a quote from the movie 'Demolition Man' ..... http://imdb.com/title/tt0106697/
Until e-readers get so cheap they're effectively disposable, and this is a step along that path, too. By then, your rights as a reader--even for a DRM'd download--will be the same as they are for a dead tree book now. You could loan such a book to friends, make photocopies of the display, put it in a public library...
Might mean the end of full, free downloads as a promotional tool, though.
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How many years am I going to be hearing about electronic paper (or printable displays for that matter), before the damn things actually come out and I can buy them?
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Wait till some idiot tries to hang it with thumbtacks.
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... thereby making it ideal for displaying information or advertisements in public areas...
Just what we need: more spam. As if people today didn't suffer enough advertising already.
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I'm amazed nobody's said this yet. Use this as a dashboard display in your office. I've had dozens of different displays that are "always on" at one time or another, but putting them in the computer background is useless, generally, 'cause they're always covered up by windows where I'm doing real surfi---er, work.
So make an 11x17" poster, hang it on the wall next to your desk and monitor, and you can put your weather bug, webcam, stock and sports highlights, network load graph, google headlines, and whatever else, over there. Then whenever you want to know what's up in the world, just glance over.
Of course, if you had a Mac, you could just hit F11, but that's another story altogether.
Yeah. Dynamic pricing and such. ;) Kind of like how if you get a ticket for running an occluded stop sign, you have to photograph of it before you report it. Otherwise the crew will make adjustments long before you can get back with a camera...
But with items where the price is listed on electronic paper, does the agreement on the conditions of the sale take effect when you take the item off the shelf or only once the cashier rings up the items?
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This would go perfectly if used with the Optimus keyboard, instead of OLEDs!
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How about using this "paper" as the top of the keys on the optimus keyboard rather than OLED?
Remember the link/story from yesterday?
http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus
Question is, will this be able to replace LCD monitors? What's the maximum refresh rate? Per-inch resolution? Color depth?
in Planet Mars or whatever it was. Cool idea. Life imitates art.
God damn it. Say the word in your head, if you have to. Say it out loud, if you have to, but its amateur. AMATEUR!
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How far can you bend it before it breaks? can you create a mobius strip out of it?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Electronic paper is actually *huge*.
It would basically put large swathes of the printer manufacturers, printers, the book publishers, the ink makers, paper mills etc etc out of business. It'd have quite an effect on forestry as well.
BTW, anyone know of anything similar to the Gutenberg project but storing the scanned images of the pages?
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It seems that this technology will allow you to have one SHEET, and that's all. The electronics and memory for an e-book reader could be made very, very small, and the low power requirements will eliminate the need for a bulky battery pack. You could keep a library rolled up in your pocket.
I'm somewhat amazed by those who say "Neat, but I can't think of much use for this".
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I remember reading about this stuff and seeing similar prototype photos as far back as 20 years ago. While this is probably much better than what was cooked up back then, somehow I doubt it'll be in our hands within the next 25 years. It always amazes me how companies will show off a new design or prototype and the article will say that it's "3 years from being available to consumers" or "mass production will start at the end of the year", but in most cases this simply never happens. Too bad, because the technologies are really interesting.
Check out eBookwise for their eBook hardware. Long story short, it's a rebadged eBook reader, but my wife bought one for me last January for my birthday, and I absolutely love it.
It uses SmartMedia cards, but I have probably 40-50 books on a 128MB card, and am using less than a third of the available space. It's also very easy to read, and is about the same screen size as a paperback, and the weight of a medium sized hardcover novel.
I highly recommend it for a dedicated eBook reader. The backlight is nice, and it's got about 20 hours on a full charge...
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http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/mon th/2005/20050713-01.html
So, what is the refresh rate on the paper, how long does it take to completely go from one image to the next? Would it benefit from some kind of algorithm that determined the minimum amount of pixels needed to change it?
What kind of resolution does it get?
Lots of questions.
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I can see it now.......Flash animated comic books and playboys too...
So while this is really great that this is finally picking up some real speed, it doesn't look like its at the point yet where you'll just be able to carry the folded/tightly rolled screen with you, as you'll most likely need a protective case for it.
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Makes the OLED Keyboard(http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?s id=05/07/14/1335215&tid=126&tid=159&tid=227) seem much more viable though!
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Having a T-Shirt that can change it's message to match your mood, the person who you are talking to, that would be cool.
Women's Clothing designers could get very creative with clothing that can change color, pattern or design, as well as translucency levels, as the wearer selects different choices from a control panel.
If they could make it wash and wear, that would be great!
The two-color versions as developed by Gyricon Media (A Xerox PARC spin-off) and E-Ink, and their partners, seem to intentionally be kept out of the hands of "hackers" who want to experiment with the materials, and I fear Fujitsu will do the same. If you wanted to play with this kind of display, currently, you'd have to buy a Gyricon sign or a Sony Librie and take it apart; I don't see reference or developer kits anywhere.
Sorry, I don't get it.
The French revolution was after the American revolution.
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Fujitsu undoubtedly has a winner here.
Real paper only requires ambient light to be read. No special electronic device. Additionally it doesn't suffer from changes in encoding format and if made of non-acidic materials, lasts hundreds of years. If you can read braille, you may not even need light!
The Constitution of the U.S. is derived from a long series of political development and philosophy.
:) Perhaps there are people who are really that uninformed about history, though.
But anyone claiming it was copied from the French is probably just a troll.
They don't say anything about price, life-span, or anything about things like, must stay in "x" amount of temperature. Are we to believe that this is anything like regular paper? It looks like plastic to me.
Time is comparison of movement to other movement.
That's part of the theme of ESM. Did you not notice the old-school coca cola ads on the walls? or the street signs? I think it's called 'kitsch?'
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Here's a history on electronic papers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper
It seems like a similar technology is already in development in the 1990s, wonder what happened to that.
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"Ad" is a contraction of "advertisement". We use an apostrophe to represent the part of a word that isn't written, with some exceptions. We generally don't put apostrophes at the ends of words, only between letters. So acronyms, contractions of multiple words into one, don't use apostrophes, except in the plural. However, I don't use the apostrophe in pluralizing acronyms, because that style is too difficult to distinguish from posessives. English suffers from ambiguities resulting from both the posessives and plurals using an "s", differentiated only by the unspoken apostrophe. So we get apostrophes at the ends of words when representing the posessive of a plural (if that plural ends in "s" - some don't).
To complicate matters, "ad" is recognized as a word, not just a contraction of "advertisement". The trick with English is to know enough usages to tell what a given usage actually does mean, then compare that meaning with the meaning expected when using it. If the reader/hearer would think it means something else, use another usage. English is really a reader's language.
If only speaking English were as easy as using one's ass.
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the oligopy in place knows very well that serving the low-end market would be suicide for the high-end.
That isn't really true these days. For starters, I don't know that Fujitsu has its hands in LCD production. There is so much competition in the PC / Laptop market, Fujitsu will find many companies eager to deploy this technology at as cheap a price as is possible with Fujitsu's licensing.
The oligopy you're referring to used to be real. Look at DVD players for example. When the devices were first released, only a few established companies were members of the DVD Consortium and anybody else looking to build DVD players has to buy a DVD decryption license from the consortium. The big players planned slow, incremental feature releases so the lifecycle would draw out for several years and the prices would be high for a long time.
Then APEX came along and said, "Hey, we'll sell these players for $100 and cram ALL the features into them." Bingo! Competition.
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Just a couple of weeks ago I was talking with my boss about having moving pictures in our product manuals. Damn. How cool it would be to read a book to my kid with moving pictures in it too, like the newspapers in Harry Potter. How about framing these things, and then you could change the pictures on your walls with every season....or change the good pictures in the living room to those of your mother-in-law when she visits. Hell, they may even prove to be cheap video display devices. The possiblilities are profound.
Remember the griping about OLED's in the Omini-whatever keyboard yesterday?
This would be a great replacement.
This combined with the paint-on solar cell techinology they are working on would be great for self contained e-comic books, digital wall art (think Posters that can be changed via subscription or file upload)
Sounds perfect for cheap computer network/system staus displays.
How about emergency signs in buildings, elevators, etc.
I can see a use for instruction displays on things like AED's or other emergency equipment......
maps, cubicle name plates, periodic company news display in cubes or reception area, restraunt menus and table displays......
the list is endless
This invention is very Sci-fi I just want to know, What is the refresh rate of this thing, i cant wait for Newspapers with moving images
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eBook readers is an obvious use, but not just books, you could get slashdot on one of these and read it on the subway.
All computer screens will definately use this once it's cheap enough, it has the potential to look a lot better than LCD screens do and uses less power.
classrooms/presentations if it's big
television
Car companies are probably going to use this to make customizable dashboards.
This is bigger news than most of the stuff on
How much is a piece of electronic paper going to cost the consumer?
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Put one of these across most of the back of a digital camera, and you've got a large display that can show the last picture you took for any length of time with no power (other than for changing pictures).
Electronic paper is an interesting idea, but what will it cost to use it? If a sheet of electonic paper costs more than a 200 page paper notepad at the local dollar store, then it will never completely replace traditional paper which is made from a renewable resource.
Perhaps that's why the article indicates it's targed use as advertising media. Because current advertising budjets are really quite high. For example, just look at what your local 'yellow pages' telephone directory charges for listing and advertising fees. Or what your local transit company charges for bilboards on your local busses. Many companys spend thousands of dollars every month just on paper-baseed advertising. With this in mind, perhaps the initial, high production and implementation costs may be justified in the advertising market.
As for me, I think it will still be a few years before I can buy a sub $100 computer case coated with digital paper instead of paint. Ahhhh, but when that day comes....
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I'd use it to make a suit like this guy's.
And, I'd want my car covered in it, so I could evade the police easier.
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Given the shrinking of the display side combined with shrunked hard drives, audio in and out and CPUs, how long until somebody comes up with a networked DynaBook?
The only missing component is how do you interact with the thing. Can it be made touch sensitive?
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They should make money out of the stuff... That way... I could hack^B^B^B^B tranfer money to it.
I hate it when people improve on a technology (computer displays) and call it something it is not. Paper. It's closer to a Plasma TV than a piece of paper.
I understand the pipedream is to have paper products like newspapers and magazines replaced with these kinds of displays, but those are "periodicals" that just so happen to be printed on actual paper.
So why don't they just quit with the marketing BS and call it something else.
Make up a name like "eSheets", or something. Just not paper.
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I'd like to know when they can make one that's E sized. Think drafting table sized CAD tube that you write on with an electronic drafting pencil. As tech gets better, it becomes invisible.
It's called the "Washlet" in Japan and is basically a high tech toilet seat with bidet built in, so it's mountable on any standard toilet. They're standard everywhere in Japan.
... but most times the washlet does a better job than paper. It's just American fear of the unknown and squeamishness that stops them from becoming popular here.
You press a button and a little robotic arm extends and precisely hoses your butt leaving it clean as a shower. They typically have pressure adjustments, and the water is heated. Often the seats are also heated, sometimes self flushing, some even play music.
It sounds scary but it pretty great actually. Superior in all regards.
Of course there is still paper nearby for "special cases"
I've always decided that the main problem with eBooks was the form-factor and display.
Give me an "eBook" that's about the size and weight of a standard paperback. Open it up, and there should be electronic paper on both sides. Visible in normal light and bright sunshine. Minimum 300dpi resolution. The two facing screens should display type much like a paperback does, with a nice mat finish (no shiny stuff). And it should be augmented by touch sensitivity, so I can "change pages" by swiping across the right hand page (top corner down towards center) in the standard "turning the page" gesture. There should be touch sensitive spots along the bottom that allow me to call up the table of contents, an index (that also allows searches), and tools to allow me to highlight and bookmark passages. When I open the eBook it should open to right where I left off. It should be water resistent, shock resistent, and the screen should be flexible enough that I don't have to worry about breaking the damn thing.
New books should be just a pluggable memory cartridge away. The memory cartridges should also store the bookmarks and highlights and "current position" so I can flip through several books at any time without losing my place in any one of them.
Once an eBook experience is like THAT, then watch out, they'll actually start to catch on. Or at the very least, *I* would suddenly be interested in owning one.
This display is a step on the road to that dream eBook...
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I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Any word on the refresh rate and number of stable changes?
For instance, there's been no mention of using this for a video display.
Does it start to fail after 200,000 or so changes?
They repeatedly refer to its use in advertising, which implies (at least to me) that its cost is prohibitively high for typical consumer use. This is unfortunate because there are almost uncountably many ways that this could be used by consumers.
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Am I the only one that's reminded once again of a Neal Stephenson work?
This looks like it lept off the page of The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. I just got done reading it last week. I recommend it highly. Review of The Diamond Age @ The Cyberpunk Database Page
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The beauty of this technology is in the long-term view. See, advertisers will look to run cheaper ads...like billboards and such that update electronically rather than having old school paper versions that have to be torn down and repainted/reprinted. Then the script kiddies start trying to find a way into the system. Five minutes later...voila! All the iPod ads get funny moustaches and new headlines :)
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there's no ...*click*... porn on my walls.
Imagine DRM-locked paper!
I read this is I think it was Popular Sciences a few months ago.
At the recent Society for Information Display show almost every major player had a flavor of electronic ink prototype at their booth.
You guys need to look around at what else is out there before you get too excited about a flashy news announcement.
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Hmmmmmmm?
Primarily this will revolutionize books and possibley open the door for more free book products