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Hearst's Seattle PI to Test Market E-Paper

Posted by Zonk on from the they-get-all-the-rain-and-now-a-cool-epaper-too-bah dept.

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.

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  1. Colleges by jshriverWVU · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can see this being EXTREMELY useful in the college scene. Imagine walking into a classroom and a bluetooth or wifi transmitter sends todays lectures to your e-paper. Then you can sit at your desk and follow along and spend more time learning than trying to frantically write things down. I welcome our paper overlords :)

  2. Re:Refresh Rate? by AmIAnAi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Fast refresh rate would have its downside too. Imagine trying to read the morning news while various adverts were flashing away round the page trying to grab your attention.

    At least with current online content you can block many of the ads with the browser or hosts. You can be sure that this would be DRM laden so you could not block the Ads.

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    Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
  3. Umbrella? by jimand · · Score: 2, Interesting

    here you go.

  4. Re:what about the Indiana PI? by parkrrrr · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But much harder to multiply in your head, which is really what I was thinking of when I said "for many purposes." If I had a calculator handy, I'd have no problem recalling that pi is approximately 3.14159265358979323ish.

    Alternatively, if you want to do it in your head AND you need better precision, multiply by three and then add 5%. 5% is easy to calculate, because it's just a halving and a decimal shift. If you need more precision than 0.2%, you're probably not standing in the aisle at Home Depot wondering about how much of something you need.