THE FUTURE IS HERE!!!
Books with photos that move - Harry Potter-style - may soon be with us. But before that, get ready for boxes of cereal that extol their own virtues via a built-in video display and chocolate bars that flash and flare to attract your attention.
Siemens has announced a new type of colour display screen so thin and flexible it can be printed onto paper or foil, and so cheap it can be used on throwaway packaging.
The technology uses "electrochromic substances … that change their colour when an electrical voltage shifts charges in their molecules" and the German technology company suggested uses could include medicines displaying instructions in various languages.
"It is also conceivable that small computer games will be on packages or that equipment boxes will display animations that give users step-by-step operating instructions."
posted by Shawn at 9:18 AM
2 Comments:
i think this is extremely awesome. newspapers with animations, etc, were big on the TV show Firefly (now a major motion picture, btw) and I always thought that was the coolest thing ever.
this is one good step towards the cool future we all are hoping for.
All I have to say is.... Consumerism
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