Electronic paper gets palaverous

Alexander Turcic · 05-13-2006, 07:42 AM

Over in the land of the rising sun plain electronic paper is so yesterday. The guys from Toppan Forms, a division of Toppan Printing, developed a paper-like product that not only includes many characteristics of paper (it's flexible and ultra thin), but which can also record and play back sound. Before you get too excited (assuming you even get excited about a talking piece of paper), note that so far this technology has only been applied to postcards being sold for about ten bucks in Japanese department stores, and with just enough room to hold up to twenty seconds of audio.

[via Web Japan]

Robert Marquard · 05-13-2006, 10:47 AM

Sounds so much like the catalogue Jim DiGriz reads in Harry Harrisons "The Stainless Steel Rat for President".

Xpi6 · 05-14-2006, 11:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robert Marquard

Sounds so much like the catalogue Jim DiGriz reads in Harry Harrisons "The Stainless Steel Rat for President".

As opposed to the postcard that Bill (the Galactic Hero) eats?

05-13-2006, 07:42 AM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Electronic paper gets palaverous Over in the land of the rising sun plain electronic paper is so yesterday. The guys from Toppan Forms, a division of Toppan Printing, developed a paper-like product that not only includes many characteristics of paper (it's flexible and ultra thin), but which can also record and play back sound. Before you get too excited (assuming you even get excited about a talking piece of paper), note that so far this technology has only been applied to postcards being sold for about ten bucks in Japanese department stores, and with just enough room to hold up to twenty seconds of audio. [via Web Japan]

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05-13-2006, 10:47 AM	#2
Robert Marquard Delphi-Guy Posts: 285 Karma: 1151 Join Date: May 2006 Location: Berlin, Germany Device: iLiad, Palm T3	Sounds so much like the catalogue Jim DiGriz reads in Harry Harrisons "The Stainless Steel Rat for President".

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