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Old 07-02-2021, 11:06 AM   #16
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An electronic display that can rolled and folded like paper is a huge game changer. Then add color... If they can get this stuff to really work like paper, then everything will change.
The first episode of "Firefly" threw in the Holy Grail of ePaper as a split-second bit of world-building:



One of the many reasons that show is awesome.

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Old 07-02-2021, 11:13 AM   #17
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Of course, someone might just be planning to sell a product to us nerds who remember shows like "Earth: Final Conflict".
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Old 07-06-2021, 11:25 AM   #19
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Why would you want to roll it? It would fit better in a case, pocket or purse flat.
To shout at someone across a room! Newspapers are perfect megaphones.

Still, I'm waiting until they release an e-reader I can fold into either a boat or a Napoleon hat.

And as soon as I can fold one into a paper plane and let it fly, I'm sold.
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Old 07-06-2021, 02:30 PM   #20
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My primative mind fail to see a practical application for this technology. Or rather, this just look so fragile at the moment. I'd be scared to take it out.
I presume you could have said the same thing about the Wright Flyer at Kittyhawk.

You DO see the possibilities once it advances to a state where it's affordable and durable, right?

The technology has to start somewhere.
Or, to borrow from Ben Franklin: “What good is a new-born baby?”
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I have so many questions about those Harry Potter moving pictures. If you stare at that newspaper for an hour, what does the guy do? Are they gifs that keep repeating, like what you posted?

The fat lady guarding the door to the Gryffindor... how does she do that? Does she have her own life/consciousness? In the wizarding world, are you then making a clone or a golem every time you take a photo (or paint a picture)?

Overthinking these things is probably why I don't care for Harry Potter.
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And as soon as I can fold one into a paper plane and let it fly, I'm sold.

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I have so many questions about those Harry Potter moving pictures. If you stare at that newspaper for an hour, what does the guy do? Are they gifs that keep repeating, like what you posted?

The fat lady guarding the door to the Gryffindor... how does she do that? Does she have her own life/consciousness? In the wizarding world, are you then making a clone or a golem every time you take a photo (or paint a picture)?

Overthinking these things is probably why I don't care for Harry Potter.


But, maybe you just haven't really absorbed the idea of magic.
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