15-07-2005 10:23									#1
	Fujitsu announces bendable electronic paper. :b: :b: :b: Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

- 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/sh...cleID=165701963

Awesome

	15-07-2005 10:26									#2
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Cool.

	15-07-2005 10:30									#3
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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,

	15-07-2005 10:33									#4
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Dude, the image properties on the other one were lost when bending.

	15-07-2005 10:36									#5
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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.

	15-07-2005 10:53									#7
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quote: 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.

	15-07-2005 10:56									#8
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And I'd tell you you're splitting hairs now.

	15-07-2005 18:58									#9
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I would say the previous work was electronic paper, but that Fujitsu's stuff is truly flexible electronic paper.

	16-07-2005 04:03									#11
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What is the use of these things?

	16-07-2005 04:18									#12
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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.

	16-07-2005 04:24									#14
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quote: 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.

	16-07-2005 06:44									#15
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quote: 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.

	16-07-2005 06:56									#16
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stupid journalists...

quote: Fujitsu has unveiled, what it claims is the world’s first electronic paper - a flexible format that can display colour images without using power.

i dont read the news in order to learn what someone claims, i read the new for fact.

if the journalist cant do a simple research they should stick with copying fujitsu's pr....

	16-07-2005 07:05									#17
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I did a project on this technology for school 2 years ago...it hadn't been made yet, but the ideas and the plans for construction were done...however, the idea hadn't been attached to any name or corporation yet...

	16-07-2005 14:01									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Kuciwalker Just plug it into your computer, download the book onto the paper, and start reading.

This is good

	16-07-2005 14:03									#19
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quote: 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.

	16-07-2005 14:09									#20
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quote: 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.

quote: 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.

Well, it isn't as simple as that - You'll still have to have a hard drive connected to it at all times - but it certainly can revolutionize reading in general - many a device, especially mobile ones, can benefit greatly from having an electronic paper display that will not consume any energy through backlighting etc. It will have to be connected to something though, some sort of tiny storage device, but these can be minute with today miniaturizing capabilities, and the low amounts of space that text and still images take.

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quote: Originally posted by Kuciwalker quote: 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.

	16-07-2005 17:02									#22
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damn instead of paper newspapers you just buy ones a flex electronic paper gizmo and hook it up to something like you mobile phone with blue tooth and get your news on there...