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Hearst's Seattle PI to Test Market E-Paper
NewsCloud writes "The Hearst Corporation plans to use the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to test market LG Philipps' recently announced flexible color E-Paper. 'The electronic P-I will carry real-time news, same as the Internet, not yesterday's news like traditional papers. Readers will turn the e-paper's pages by touching the flexible screen. And when those readers head off to work, they will roll up the electronic P-I and stuff it in their pocket, purse, or briefcase.' The announcement comes amidst the recent settlement of bitter co-operating disputes between Seattle's two newspapers and Bill Gates' recent comments on the shifting of the advertising market away from traditional media." Update: 05/18 21:51 GMT by Z : Michelle Nicolosi, Assistant Managing Editor for the PI, emailed this correction: "Someday, Seattle P-I readers may be able to carry around their news in a bendable, electronic paper device -- but not any time soon. Hearst Corp., which owns the Seattle P-I, has no plans to use the Seattle daily newspaper to test a newly announced E-paper gadget." The original site linked apparently got it wrong.
Last I heard, they decided it was 3.
Oh, there's an article?
Great. Punch the Monkey, coming soon to a paper near you!
Soooo, what am I supposed to do at work then?..... /ducks
can you roll it up and use it to store fish and chips in?
Commodore64_love: I don't comprehend people who're so frightened of death that they'll bankrupt themselves to stay alive
So modern paper technology has finally caught up with Harry Potter :)
"I think an etch-a-sketch with an ethernet port would beat IE7 in web standards compliance."
Please wait while your ePaper updates over the Sub-Etha-Net.
Those of us who think they know everything annoy those of us who do.