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Touch Sensitive Paper With Built-In Speakers
The Bongo King writes "There have been several stories about digital paper discussed here on the site recently, but an offering from Swedish research scientists has a new twist. They have made a prototype billboard of interactive paper with built-in flat loudspeakers apparently also made of paper. 'Touch sensors are made using a fine pattern of conductive lines in which the current flow is altered when a hand touches it. Laptop computer touchpads use the same principle. Speakers are made by printing electromagnets out of conductive ink and stretching the paper over a cavity like a speaker cone behind the billboard. The electromagnets vibrate in response to a current, creating a sound.'"
Can't wait for the day when I can write "/." and the paper screams, "Hey, dork, you spelled 'Slashdot' wrong."
Now wake me up when they invent a talking pie.
how much more fun printed pr0n could be!
5 years from now you will walk down the isle in a grocery store and every box will be animating and screaming buy me like the cereal box in Minority Report.
Paper is now banned in schools, as the repeat playing of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" caused much ruckus.
...wipe my ass for me?
Making a tweeting bird that moves it's eyes and responds to you touching it and all from a single digital paper.
If you mod this up, your slashdot background will turn into a beautiful sunset!
I'm just waiting until they do the same for e-paper. Then, not only will the paper have graphics and animation, but it will have sound too. Also, I expect an embedded ccd to come in a few years, making the new media computer a piece of e-paper attached to a bulky battery.
If they can merge the technology of digital paper with touch sensitive paper things could get interesting...
To do something right, you often have to roll up your sleeves and get busy.
I think we probably need new laws against noise pollution fast. I really don't look forward to billboards speaking to me.
once advertisers get a hold of this material, and they start showing up all over the place with irritating ads that scream at you, will either be the day I commence a campaign of BRUTAL city-wide vandalism, or I give up and move into the woods.
How do we make this work with porn magazines?
You know it's gonna happen...
If you smoke after sex, you're doing it too fast.
to bad they cant make it with a memory. your reading your book, you touch the bottom left and the words fade and the next page appears. you could have a whole book on one page. patent pending of course.
...Linux?
If you have to have a battery attached to the paper, you might as well make it cylindrical, so you can roll the e-paper up. (Folding will probably not be so friendly to it.)
The return of the scroll!
If you thought over packaging was bad now. Imagine a cereal box with 1/4 of it reserve for the battery that powers the digital paper display and 1/4 reserved for the speaker. The remaining 1/2 will be food facimille made of phosoric acid, aspertame, Hydrogenated vegetable oil, and recycled newspaper print.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
I can see it coming! You go to the store, pay 1$ and the system prints out a piece of paper. You fold it a few times and you have a set of headphones. Now you can listen to the song you just bought for 1$ and once it has played it is no good. Just crumple it up and throw the thing away.
What about printed cell phones? or printed greeting cards that deliver your message to the intended victim, I mean recipient?
I personally would love to see some one wall paper there living room with it. Touch here and the wall tells you where to stick it.
The RIAA is already planning their next major lawsuit against the paper industry,...
So a good novelty item might be disposable electronic talking paper. Maybe it can give feedback as it's being, um, used. "no, you missed a spot."
...will scan your fingerprints, and if you aren't cleared for the document, the paper can start singing "you can't touch this!"
I think it was 1986 although I don't clearly remember, but Nissin or some other instant noodle brand was offering flat paper speakers.
Touch sensitive and with speakers? Maybe Nintendo will utilize this, then we can look forward to playing the brand new 'Paper Mario' :)
Now what we need is a way to get those conductive inks to work with something like eInk dynamically changable images where icons detect touch via conducted electricity, low cost sound coming from your 1-page rollup newspaper. Probably tricky to get the current to flow across e-ink pixels that way though. Though, even if you couldn't get the e-ink parts to be touch sensitive, little conductive UI panels in the corners for forward/back touch spots wouldn't suck. Now all thats needed is flexible paper-thin power sources and circuitry.
Sanity is a sandbox. I prefer the swings.
Speakers are made by printing electromagnets out of conductive ink and stretching the paper over a cavity like a speaker cone behind the billboard. The electromagnets vibrate in response to a current, creating a sound.'"
Sounds like a lot of current and associated structure to get this to work.
Why not just use plastic piezoelectric benders? Then the paper will talk even when being held in free air.
(Or hasn't the patent on that expired yet?)
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
will it eventually scream when turned into wasted paper?
Think of the new realms origami could explore... :D
Those attending the demonstration of sound-making-paper technology reported 1. it indeed worked. 2. it sounded like rustling paper.
Skin mags should integrate this into the centerfold......so it moans when you touch .......
ENUF SAID !!!
"Drawing closer to world domination, keystroke by keystroke."
It says you must die it says this over and over... ;-)
Or see the BBC article from a few days ago: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6723475.stm
...to silence all the animated, noisy ads this invention will inevitably lead to.
Guy: grnngngngnnnhhhgghhgnnnrrrnrn! ahhhhhh!
Paper: You have traces of blood and 2.5 peanuts in your excrement.
Karma: Bad. (As in Good?)
It's probably a lot cheaper to print what they're using now. As in this whole thing will be printed on a large format inkjet, probably on several sheets of paper to accommodate the cavity.... then the cavity will be die-cut out as is standard and constructed using a cheap wood/plastic/alluminum frame. Sounds pretty cool to me.
;-p
It's an innovative use of the new inkjet printing of circuits technique.
Your idea does hold merit though and we at Hallmark cards will be looking into it aggressively
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
Your idea does hold merit though and we at Hallmark cards will be looking into it aggressively ;-p
No skin off my patent portfolio. It's already been done decades back - and I'm not going to bother with trying to claim just combining it with electronic paper.
Your idea does hold merit though and we at Hallmark cards will be looking into it aggressively ;-p
My previous post counts as "prior art". So I just open-sourced it.
Hallmark is welcome to use it - along with anybody else. B-)
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way