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E-Paper On Cereal Boxes
coastin writes "Wired Mag has an article about electronics maker Siemens,
readying a paper-thin electronic-display technology. They say
it is so cheap it could replace conventional labels on disposable
packaging. Imagine items on grocer's shelves that flash commercials
at you as you walk by. From the article: 'When kids see flashing
pictures on cereal boxes we don't expect them to just ask for the
product, but to say, "I want it", said Axel Gerlt, an engineer
at Siemens tasked with helping packaging companies implement the
technology.'"
I envision the day when porn will be flashed on the cereal boxes and the kid's Dad goes "I want it!"
A disgruntled cereal packaging company employee quits, and a few weeks later at 5:00pm some fine Sunday all the boxes on the supermarket shelf simultaneously and inexplicably start flashing goatse...
-- Conserve binary trees; recycle your email. --
Flashing stuff on boxes all over the supermarket? That's got to be a nightmare for those suffering from epilepsy.
In this age of data mining, persons afflicted with a seizure at the supermarket will quickly receive a coupon for a free shake from Baskin Robbins.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
This could be a good thing if it gets parents more used to saying "Mo!" to their kids.
Is that anything like saying "Ni!" to old women?
I pity the foo that isn't metasyntactic
Miniature displays in color could appear on consumer-goods packaging, including medicine vials, in 2007, with a resolution of 80 dpi, Gerlt said.
"You say the defendant, Local Pharmacy Inc., failed to warn your late husband about possible side effects of the drug?"
"Yes, sir."
"Show me the bottle. Let's see here. 'Not to be taken with alcohol. May cause dizziness, blindness, and death.' Clearly, if he had read the bottle, he would have known about the 'death' side-effect."
"Sure, but the label didn't say 'death' until just an hour ago. It said 'headaches'."
There are 0x40000000 types of people: those who understand 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point, and those who don't.
Why would we limit ourselves to inanimate surfaces? I envision a day when I go to a seafood restaurant and the oysters have a self-updating "I've been out of water DD HH.MI.SS" display attached to their shells; the lobsters have a "My claws currently weight WW ounces each, and I was harvested only HH hours ago" display on their carapaces; and the waiters have dazzling, dynamic pieces of flair attached to their uniforms that vibrantly inform me how much they love their job.
... in the Supermarket Riots of 2008.
Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur (anything said in Latin sounds important)
I work for a retail label printer.
I feel your pain, brother. I work for a retail color laser printer. Printers are the worst bosses. This one pays me cash, the bank once said something about yellow dots in my money, and refused to accept a deposit.
Altruism is a noble thing, but it's greed that makes the world actually turn.
Actually, it's conservation of angular momentum.
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