Vapor-tech: electronic paper
So ka!
As I said in my previous 3Yen.com reports, flexible paper-like screens that can that you can roll up into and put in your pocket have become a neverending press joke. I love the way companies feel compelled to say they have “electronic paper ” for us to use when they don’t. However if this e-paper was flexible enough I could have an aloha shirt that abnoxious loud patterns that change every few minutes to annoy salarymen on the train, hee, hee.
Electronic paper debuts in Tokyo
UK—- Forever just on the horizon, but year after year never getting closer. As well as holographic displays and integrated speech processing and pervasive computing, you could add electronic paper to the set of key technologies that seem to be always just out of reach.
But maybe electronic paper is about to roll up and plug in to an office near you…. Fujitsu Labs have announced a research breakthrough.
Describing it as the world’s first ‘film substrate-based bendable colour electronic paper with an image memory function’, the electronic paper is thin, flexible …blah, blah, blah….Commercial applications are expected before March 2007.
Also refer to 3Yen.com’s:
‘New’ Electronic Paper has been announced for the 401th time, sheesh.
Here’s a flexible, paper-like computer screen for my flying car!
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