07-14-2005, 05:30 PM
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Fujitsu Announces Bendable Colour Electronic Paper
"Bendable colour screens have been in the pipeline for some time (see related links), but Fujitsu is the first company to announce a wireless version that it hopes will hit shops sometime between April 2006 and March 2007. According to Fujitsu its newly developed e-paper features an image memory function that enables �continuous display of the same image without the need for electricity�, although it does require a smidge of power to switch images. Plus, the images don�t warp or lose quality when the e-paper is bent or rolled up."
Technology like this is an important step towards evolving the form factor of today's PDAs. Very cool to see this first step - I can imagine some very interesting uses two or three generations down the line.
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07-14-2005, 05:45 PM
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engadget had this too. This is some fairly exciting technology. The potential uses for something that leaves an image behind after you remove the charge is HUGE.
-ebook readers. (That is the only blatantly obvious one.)
-price stickers that are updated via wireless.
-wallpaper that also doubles as a TV.
-Reusable mailing labels for boxes and such.
-laptop summery displays on the TOP of the laptop that update once every 30 minutes with customizable info.
-Maybe eventually cars that can change color as easily as pushing a button
-cameras that display the last picture taken without needing to use a charge.
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07-14-2005, 07:33 PM
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Finally. It feels like I've been waiting for this tech for decades. I want it so bad I can taste it.
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07-14-2005, 07:44 PM
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very cool
I wonder how/if this will impact battery life on small screen devices and laptops...
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07-14-2005, 08:15 PM
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Re: very cool
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Originally Posted by capo
I wonder how/if this will impact battery life on small screen devices and laptops...
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The press release claims that it uses less than 1% of the power of other display technologies.
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07-14-2005, 08:25 PM
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I predict this technology for use as animated business cards.
Did I say 'predict'? I meant 'patent'!
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07-15-2005, 03:58 AM
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This Is Neat
I could see some very useful PDA's with this screen. I can see the first 360 degree PDA with a continual scroll.
Cool 
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07-15-2005, 07:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Ward
I predict this technology for use as animated business cards.
Did I say 'predict'? I meant 'patent'!
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I'll race you to the patent office That would be awesome... have a stack of these cheap cards lying around, put your latest contact info and/or a special message on it and hand them out.
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07-15-2005, 08:31 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Hmmm...- - a video player whose flash memory is bigger than its little watch battery?
- better yet...link these to cell phones that have a little 30 sec. video cam on it! FINALLY, videophones! (just need more bandwidth...)
- an Axim X50v that doesn't need an extended battery, and could play 3+ DVD's worth of video w/o recharging!!! - AND it'd be (at least a LITTLE) lighter!!!
- portable DVD players that you don't have to worry about cracking the screen! (ok, creases may be an issue...)
- wallpaper as a TV, you say? how 'bout wallpaper as a wall-sized PC monitor? (Mmmm...bigger-than-life GTA: San Andreas!)
Speaking of using this tech as wallpaper...let's try making it solid black in its uncharged state, and use a grid of little yellow lines to stitch a bunch of 'em together...(Star Trek TNG, anyone?)
Oh, and don't forget all the new possibilities for advertisers! Like that animated business card idea? How 'bout business card-sized video-SPAM?!?
Also, I wouldn't trust the technology for changing a car's color, at a button push. Oh, I think it'd work, but really...haven't you ever played any of the Grand Theft Auto games? Forget 'Pay-n-Spray', try 'Click-n-Spray'...
k1darkknight, aka - *DAMMIT, I just passed the patent office!*
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07-16-2005, 01:47 PM
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The real power behind this tech isn't the odd things like video business cards that can be done (As William Shatner once said: "But why?"), but the ecological aspects of a replacement for paper used in so many wasteful ways, like:
Daily newspapers and other periodicals;
Bills and statements;
Advertisements;
Catalogs;
Phone books;
Greeting cards
This list was generated simply by looking at the contents of my mixed paper trash can, which brims with waste every week. I would love to see all of these things sent to electronic paper, which gives you the added advantage of simply deleting what you don't want to read, or what is obsolete (like yesterday's paper), and storing the rest.
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