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ePaper To Be Used For Newspapers and Magazines
rustbear writes "The Guardian reports that cheap, paper-thin TV screens that can be used in newspapers and magazines have been unveiled by German electronics giant Siemens. The firm says the low production costs could see the magazine shelves in newsagents come alive with moving images vying for the customers' attention as they move along the aisle. The Siemens spokesman said that one square metre of the material costs around £30, and scientists working on the screens said they should be available by 2007."
Cant wait to see the top shelf in that newsagent
--- Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity
This is, of course, after The Guardian invested 80 million quid on new, hamburger-format-oriented printing presses. Of the non-e-paper variety!
Oops...
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
Ok. I'll take two. To save shipping costs, please post it with my quantum computer and flying car orders.
Oh joy. Flashing ads in newspapers. I can't wait.
Oooh! Maybe they can attach a speaker so we can hear what Bill Gates and 75 other people have to say about Windows XP Media Center edition.
My question. How the hell am I going to block popups in my magazines?
...can you squash flies with it?
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YTARY!
With such stark printing innovation, I wonder how long it will be before my magazine can read me.
> scientists working on the screens said they should be available by 2007
Translation: 2025
Now my newpaper will have fucking pop-up ads for pr0n, male enhancement cream, and wieght-loss pills.
It has an invisible ink. re-read it after using it, and it will all make sense.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Well, maybe because this will be touted to be environmently friendly, the guy is thinking "The more of these we use, the faster we save the environment!"
I can't wait for the first remote root hack for one of these ePapers.
Picture it. It's 2013. You're sitting on the Tube on your way to work reading the paper. A hundred other people are doing the same thing. At the other end of the carriage sits a geek with a laptop and some wireless kit. He's tapping away and grinning.
Next thing you know the page contents change.
... All copies of the Times on that carriage just became goatse. All copies of the Sun just became tubgirl. And the Mail? Lemonparty.
Oh, this is going to be fun!
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Wealthy individuals used to (still do?) have servants iron their newspapers to set the ink so that the newspaper wouldn't soil their clothing. If this new technology gets used in newspapers for advertising, people will have to start microwaving their newspapers in order to shut off the annoying flash ads.
Real size porn.
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Well that is the last thing that I need...
A newspaper that watches me while I take a dump.
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
You muggles get excited over the oddest things...
"We are no longer content to stimulated only by flashing internet and TV ads," said Mark Vinciento, president of the World Association of Epileptics. "With this new technology, we step into a brave new world where merely walking past a news stand can induce fantastic, life-threatening seizures."
The flurry of flash photography following Vinciento's statements caused him to collapse twitching from his podium, to the enthusiastic applause from the onlooking crowd.
"He likes it," said Jane Fitzgerol, association secretary, "why do you think he took the job?"