Touch Sensitive Paper With Built-In Speakers 83
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.'"
With speakers... (Score:4, Funny)
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And classified documents... (Score:5, Funny)
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If I want a talking picture, I'll watch TV (Score:1, Funny)
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Oh god no (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Oh god no (Score:5, Funny)
I work in advertising, I'll have to have a talk with my boss about this.
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Don't forget that new thin-film display technology from Sony. If it gets cheap enough...
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That, and the golf game with the music that was just that much out of tune.
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On the other side of the futurist spectrum, I'm kinda looking forward to finding random fun easter eggs on my packaging.
Today (Score:2, Insightful)
Origami (Score:3, Funny)
The Return of the Scroll (Score:3, Interesting)
The return of the scroll!
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I wonder why Sony keeps trying to develop it, then, if it's already out?
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Noise pollution? (Score:5, Insightful)
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With time, perhaps sound will become the same?
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Then again, that cute girl in the eyeglasses ad...
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oh god...the ads...the ADS!! (Score:2, Insightful)
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The next step (Score:3, Funny)
You know it's gonna happen...
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Enviromental (Score:5, Insightful)
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"Ah yes, the old 'contents may settle' trick!"
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That's why the generic cereal that comes in big bags is so much cheaper, usually 1/4 the price, or even less. Often, it's exactly the same stuff as in the small, brightly-colored boxes with the nationally-recognized brand names.
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My sig is sarcastic.
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The packaging acts to *prevent* waste from spoilage and damage.
And I had a long debate argument with a friend about the whole canard that "just 10% of the cost is for the food." To get from grain growing in a field to become a box of cereal in a convenience store, there are hundreds of people who added a little bit of value at each stage of production. They
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But why stop at birds? everywhere you put the sign in train stations, the rear / underside could be sensitive to (say) rats and might squark some ultrasonic move-along signal.
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What an idea (Score:1)
What about printed cell phones? or printed greeting cards that deliver your message to the intended victim, I mean recipient?
I personally would love to see some one wall paper there living room with it. Touch here and the wal
The next step . . . (Score:3, Funny)
New meaning for vanity toilet paper (Score:2, Funny)
touchable talking e-ink (Score:2)
Electromagnetism? Why not piezos? (Score:3, Interesting)
Sounds like a lot of current and associated structure to get this to work.
Why not just use plastic piezoelectric benders? Then the paper will talk even when being held in free air.
(Or hasn't the patent on that expired yet?)
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It's an innovative use of the new inkjet printing of circuits technique.
Your idea does hold merit though and we at Hallmark cards will be looking into it aggressively
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No skin off my patent portfolio. It's already been done decades back - and I'm not going to bother with trying to claim just combining it with electronic paper.
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My previous post counts as "prior art". So I just open-sourced it.
Hallmark is welcome to use it - along with anybody else. B-)
Foldable (Score:1)
the downside (Score:3, Funny)
Interesting (Score:1)
Time to start building portable EMP generators (Score:3, Insightful)
The fourth type of paper (Score:1)
Paper: You have traces of blood and 2.5 peanuts in your excrement.