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Touch Sensitive Paper With Built-In Speakers

Posted by Zonk on from the menu-won't-stop-singing-please-take-it-away dept.

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.'"

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  1. Oh god no by cbuskirk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Oh god no by 7Prime · · Score: 5, Funny

      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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  2. Noise pollution? by Zironic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think we probably need new laws against noise pollution fast. I really don't look forward to billboards speaking to me.

  3. Enviromental by king-manic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  4. And classified documents... by Roadkills-R-Us · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...will scan your fingerprints, and if you aren't cleared for the document, the paper can start singing "you can't touch this!"