7/31/2008

‘Dude, where’s my flying car (and electrionic paper)?’

‘New’ Electronic Paper has been announced for the 402th time, sheesh.

Esquire to geeks: hack our e-paper magazine cover
- Boing Boing Gadgets –
Cheap, disposable e-paper magazines on subway newsstands and on the racks of your airport’s Hudson News. Each one thin, flexible, disposable. Just a couple of pages, with bright, glossy color, wirelessly updated with the latest issues of your favorite rag. Need something to read? Buy a new e-mag — or press a button to refresh your virtually dog-eared copy to this month’s edition.
That’s about five years away, just like it has been for the last decade.
But deputy editor Peter Griffin can tell you what magazine stands will look like this October, when then the 75th Anniversary issue of Esquire with an e-paper cover …more…

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0riginally posted on the 3Yen.com on July 8, 2005….

‘New’ Electronic Paper has been announced for the 401th time, sheesh.
Flexible paper-like screens that can that you can roll up into and put in your pocket have been “the stuff of hype for more than a decade.”
As many times as this has been announced, I might have well have traded in my old flying car for a new personal hyperdrive spaceship and timemachine. Meh.

Sony, research body develop high-resolution, roll-up display panel - report
TOKYO —-A research team from Sony Corp and the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research has developed a new type of display panel that is extremely thin and flexible enough to be rolled up like a piece of paper, with an industry-high resolution of 79 dots per inch (dpi)….…more….

Also refer to my previous 3Yen.com reports:
—Here’s a flexible, paper-like computer screen for my flying car!
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Japan’s newest e-paper with 4,096 colors…
—Here’s a flexible, paper-like computer screen for my flying car!
—April launch date for 20 years in the making for “e-paper”

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1. Someothergaijin Says:
   July 31st, 2008 at 2:01 pm

   E-paper, whatta farking joke. Check out these similar tall tales.
   

   The computer mouse could be extinct in 3 to 5 years
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   It took the world by storm 40 years ago, but now, after four decades, the demise of the evolutionary computer mouse is very near, predicts a leading researcher.
   According to the Gartner analyst, the mouse will be dead in the next three to five years.
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   “The mouse works fine in the desktop environment but for home entertainment or working on a notebook it’s over,” BBC quoted analyst Steve Prentice, as saying.
   He told BBC News that his prediction is driven by the efforts of consumer electronics firm which are making products with new interactive interfaces inspired by the world of gaming.
   “You’ve got Panasonic showing forward facing video in the home entertainment environment. Instead of using a conventional remote control you hold up your hand and it recognizes you have done that,” he said.
   “It also recognizes your face and that you are you and it will display on your TV screen your menu. You can move your hand to move around and select what you want.
   “Sony and Canon and other video and photographic manufacturers are using face recognition that recognises your face in real time. And it recognises even when you smile.”
   “You even have emotive systems where you can wear a headset and control a computer by simply thinking and that’s a device set to hit the market in September,” he added……..

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