>Thinking about it, making PADDs is allready possible today.
>We got the technology. After all what is this thing, anyway?
>Its a sort of a text-reader, which can also show inline images.
>I'll say, it can use something like an HTML.
Yes, but the thing that are developed for this purpose as we speak aren't
using HTML but some strange thing that a few companies invented together.
Oh yes, the only software company in there was M$.
>So far they said that reading books using computers is not comfortable,
>because of the large screen or the way Laptops are. But having a PADD
>like this can change it.
There are already screens that are made for sole puropse of showing text.
Sofar only black and white and rather expensive. But they plan to send the
newspaper to this instead of making people go to the mailbox and pick it
up. Would be a nice thing here at home since that would make it possible
for all four of use to read the paper at once without ripping it to shreds ;)
So the thing you talk about is invented, and regarding a former post by
someone else about wanting a replicator and transporter - IBM has made a
transporter (but it's a bit slow to be usefull 340 billions year to move a
person). A replicator shouldn't be that difficult to make when the
transporter is finished, what I would like to see are a holoroom - that
would be very cool to say the least! A hooverboard (as seen in BTTF) would
also be fun to ride. (However a lightsaber might be a bit dangerous.)
>(Though I would still prefer a good ol' made-of-paper-or-something-like-it
book.)
Me too, atleast at the present stage of development of these screens. I
feels much more flexible with normal paper.
//Bernie
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