More Electronic Paper

This is an interesting link sent to me by photographer and ed tech leader, Jay Bryant. Read the following excerpt from a July 13 Fujitsu press release:

Tokyo, July 13, 2005 — Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Fujitsu Frontech Limited, and Fujitsu Limited today announced their joint development of the world’s first film substrate-based bendable color electronic paper with an image memory function. The new electronic paper features vivid color images that are unaffected even when the screen is bent, and features an image memory function that enables continuous display of the same image without the need for electricity. The thin and flexible electronic paper uses very low power to change screen images, thereby making it ideal for displaying information or advertisements in public areas as a type of new electronic media that can be handled as easily as paper.

The jointly developed electronic paper will be showcased at Fujitsu Forum 2005, to be held July 14 and 15 at Tokyo International Forum.

OK, let’s take this a few years into the future. Imagine how clunky projectors and pull down screens are going too look as we install film-slick electronic membranes on our white boards for displaying digital content. Or let’s just through all pre-conceptions out the window and imagine electronic wall paper, electronic desk surfaces, electronic floors. Make that stuff touch sensitive, and we’ve really step into another world. Interacting with information by interacting with the objects around us. Information and environment become one in the same.

Hey, I don’t know about this. I need a walk in the woods just thinking about it! 😉

“Fujitsu Develops World’s First Film Substrate-based Bendable Color Electronic Paper featuring Image Memory Function..” Fujitsu: The Possibilities are Infinite. 13 Jul. 2005. Fujitsu. 14 Jul. 2005 <http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2005/20050713-01.html>.

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