Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:27:41 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nonsense discussion: dreaming up new technology Message-ID: <200307271927.h6RJRf2I036692@bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:58:30 EDT." <3F2412C6.8030907@potentialtech.com>
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> The overall approach is "interactive prited media". Imagine a sales > brochure where you could press the paper to check/uncheck options and > see the price update right on the paper. A number of display technologies already exist. Google for electronic ink or e-ink. Also look for electro-active ink, organic field-effect transistors (OFETs or OTFT), look for printed displays. Also OLEDs (organic LED) displays. Look for plastic electronics. Think dead-dinosaurs instead of dead-trees :-) Plastics are a lot more versatile than paper for such things. Many of these people are focussing on display applications so it'll be a while before we get to what Neal Stephenson talks about in "The Diamond Age" -- where a computer is sandwiched between display surfaces. > The battery could either be wafer thin and embedded in the paper (you're > using special paper) or (possibly) the chemicles that create a battery > could be stored in ink form and the battery basically "printed" to the > page. Yup. Print the battery too! And print solar cells on margins and other unused areas to charge it. > So. Am I the first to imagine such a thing? How close is the > technology to actually doing it? What does everyone think about it? Not the first. But don't let that bother you! Keep at it! Think of *where* you would use it if it were available. Keep an inventor's log book and have it notarized periodically.
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