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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.'"
Actually, that's a really good idea. Never saw Minority Report. What could be better than video advertsing ON THE PACKAGING!
I work in advertising, I'll have to have a talk with my boss about this.
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...will scan your fingerprints, and if you aren't cleared for the document, the paper can start singing "you can't touch this!"