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]
4 responses to “Just in time for Harry Potter”
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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… -
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.
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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….
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Indistinguishable from magic!