Just in time for Harry Potter

July 16, 2005 by Jeff Jarvis

Know how the papers they read in Harry Potter movies have moving images. Well, now Fujitsu introduces electronic paper that can show moving images even while bent. [via B&C]

Just in time for Harry Potter

July 16, 2005 by Jeff Jarvis

Just in time for Harry Potter

: Know how the papers they read in Harry Potter movies have moving images. Well, now Fujitsu introduces electronic paper that can show moving images even while bent. [via B&C]

  • Mike G

    There’s an H. G. Wells story– it was in one of those Strand magazine anthologies a few years back– in which he imagines the newspaper of tomorrow, full of moving images and self-updating and, in a lot of ways, just like the Web.
    Except it still has to be thrown by a paperboy onto the porch.
    Even the best futurist can’t get every detail…

  • Bob Hawkins

    Of course, the moving pictures in magical newspapers are still useless. Instead of a still shot of people milling about to no effect, you get a moving shot of people milling about to no effect.

  • http://www.buzzmachine.com Jeff Jarvis

    Unless, Bob, the image on the page is bluetoothed to your phone, which is connected to the internet: et voila, the flattest flat-screen tv ever….

  • http://stonecity.blogspot.com sammler

    Indistinguishable from magic!