Touch Sensitive Paper With Built-In Speakers

The Bongo King writes "There have been several stories about digital paper discussed here on the site recently, but an offering from Swedish research scientists has a new twist. They have made a prototype billboard of interactive paper with built-in flat loudspeakers apparently also made of paper. 'Touch sensors are made using a fine pattern of conductive lines in which the current flow is altered when a hand touches it. Laptop computer touchpads use the same principle. Speakers are made by printing electromagnets out of conductive ink and stretching the paper over a cavity like a speaker cone behind the billboard. The electromagnets vibrate in response to a current, creating a sound.'"

Oh god no

[cbuskirk]

5 years from now you will walk down the isle in a grocery store and every box will be animating and screaming buy me like the cereal box in Minority Report.

Today

[i_liek_turtles]

Paper is now banned in schools, as the repeat playing of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" caused much ruckus.

Noise pollution?

[Zironic]

I think we probably need new laws against noise pollution fast. I really don't look forward to billboards speaking to me.

oh god...the ads...the ADS!!

[Anonymous Coward]

once advertisers get a hold of this material, and they start showing up all over the place with irritating ads that scream at you, will either be the day I commence a campaign of BRUTAL city-wide vandalism, or I give up and move into the woods.

Enviromental

[king-manic]

If you thought over packaging was bad now. Imagine a cereal box with 1/4 of it reserve for the battery that powers the digital paper display and 1/4 reserved for the speaker. The remaining 1/2 will be food facimille made of phosoric acid, aspertame, Hydrogenated vegetable oil, and recycled newspaper print.

Re:Noise pollution?

[Meski]

Argh. Sorry, but the answer to things you don't like is not more micromanagement laws.

Time to start building portable EMP generators

[hcdejong]

...to silence all the animated, noisy ads this invention will inevitably lead to.