(Source: Philip Ball for Nature | Hat Tip to Slashdot)
Netherlands - Now this is just plain cool. I've read several things on this kind of tech over the last couple of years and I find it very exciting.
Paper capable of playing videos has been invented at the Philips Research laboratory in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.Just think. You could carry around your entire library in a small note book. The fun really comes in when you think about making notes and doing searches.A single sheet looks pretty much like ordinary paper. But the ink can be rearranged electronically fast enough to show video movies.
Its devisers, Robert Hayes and Johan Feenstra, have also figured out how to create full-colour displays. Their colour screens would be four times brighter than the flat devices currently made from liquid crystals, they reckon.
The invention is the latest version of 'electronic ink'. Researchers hope to combine the convenience, robustness and readability of printed material with the vast and flexible information content of laptop computers.
I can't wait!
