Thursday, January 29, 2004

After being pointed in the direction of the new Vodafone Future website by JesterXL and seeing the ideas for the use of e-paper as ultra-thin displays that couple as jewelry or folding maps that you can interact with to find your friends and receive video messages from and being generally quite excited by some of the concepts presented I then came across this news article from Yahoo which reports that Dutch firm Philips Electronics said on Monday it was preparing to mass-produce a slim, book-sized display panel onto which consumers could download newspapers and magazines then roll up and put away.

"We can produce this in batches. It's no longer a research project. We're going to build a pilot line that should be ready in 2005 to make one million displays a year," a spokesman at Philips Research said.

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