OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> An ultrathin flexible battery. In the works from Japan-based NEC > for over a decade, the organic radical battery is just one hundredth of an > inch thick, > can refresh a teeny screen 2,000 times and can be recharged in less than a > minute. > That's nifty! > It also paves the way for slender flat-screen displays and e-readers > that feel like paper. > Why do people want e-readers that feel like paper? I have often heard this. I don't get it. It reminds me of the early word processors that worked like typewriters, or the handheld gadgets that recognize handwriting. Why would you want to write by hand if you have a computer?!? I see the advantage of an e-reader that folds up or rolls up so you can put it in your pocket, but I would not want it to be flexible like paper. I want it to be rigid like a book, at least in one dimension. A newspaper is flexible and all dimensions. Floppy, that is. That's annoying. People years ago riding subways were adapt and folding newspapers so they could be held in one hand. That calls for a lot of folding and unfolding, which is annoying. - Jed
