Fujitsu announces bendable electronic paper. :b: :b: :b:

[Az]

- No power consumption unless you want to change images.
- Changing images requires minimal power.
- flexible.
- Colour, of course.

http://www.itp.net/news/details.php?id=16783&category=

http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165701963

Awesome

[Drake Tungsten]

Cool.

[DRoseDARs]

Either Fujitsu is lying or this is bad journalism: Flexible electronic paper was already created just a few years ago in some research lab (obviously nowhere near production-ready). What Fujitsu has done is probably the world's first COLOR flexible electric paper.



Anyway,

[Az]

Dude, the image properties on the other one were lost when bending.

[DRoseDARs]

But it was still flexible electric paper. Are you going to tell me that the first batteries weren't batteries just because they didn't have the quality of the generations that followed them? No, you're not.

[Q Classic]

[Az]

But it was still flexible electric paper. Are you going to tell me that the first batteries weren't batteries just because they didn't have the quality of the generations that followed them? No, you're not.

I'd tell you that they weren't real batteries, if they'd lose all their properties on contact with humans.

[DRoseDARs]

And I'd tell you you're splitting hairs now.

[pchang]

I would say the previous work was electronic paper, but that Fujitsu's stuff is truly flexible electronic paper.

[Az]

[Spiffor]

What is the use of these things?

[Winston]

They're meant to show ones approval, or even agreement, with a statement made by another poster immediately before. Or, in rarer instances, the general message conveyed in the opening post.

[Spiffor]

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Winston
They're meant to show ones approval, or even agreement, with a statement made by another poster immediately before. Or, in rarer instances, the general message conveyed in the opening post.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Spiffor
What is the use of these things?

Just one idea: having one sheet of paper represent an entire library. You can have all of the ease of reading from normal paper (I assume this isn't backlit at all, so it's just ambient light you're seeing), but all the data storage of a hard drive. Just plug it into your computer, download the book onto the paper, and start reading.