Future Steve

LG is putting 9.7-inch color and 19-inch flexible e-paper displays into production.

Could this be what the future of digital books really is? It seems a little odd to me that it would be in a multi-page format, rather than a single page that changes. I thought at first it might be interesting to have a blank book, with each page being a digital display, but…. that would be kinda stupid. A much more likely scenario would be to have posters made from these displays. For advertising, it would mean less work sending people out to change bill boards. For home, you could have large format displays for just about anything you’d want. Plus, since they would be able to change, you can make them time aware, so the poster would change depending on how you usually use it during the day. News in the morning, television schedule or cooking instructions in the evening.

I know you can do all of that now, but the real bonus here is that it’s so thin, you can put the display in places where bulky monitors just won’t fit.

Lot of possibilities.

Sooner or later, someone’s going to figure out how to put these things on cereal boxes, and you’ll never be able to walk down that aisle in the grocery store again without having your brain go into overload.

via Engadget.

Today Netflix updated their iPhone app, and now you can watch movies directly over 3G on your iPhone! Check out the app at the iTunes store.

I went to nine JavaOne conferences. When Sun was running it, they held it in Moscone in San Francisco. Oracle has taken over, and they’re going to be in … The Hilton San Francisco at Union Square.

I don’t know what it was about having it at Moscone. Just don’t think it’ll be the same.

Apple has gotten a patent on a technology where the device itself changes its physical interface, depending on the situation. Using it like an iPod? You get a wheel. Using it like a remote control, you get the buttons for that. Need a physical keyboard? It would be able to do that too.

This is extremely cool.

via Patently Apple

Ars Technica is doing a GREAT job with their Live WWDC Keynote coverage. Jacqui Cheng and Aurich are doing a better job than anyone else who’s covering the event.

Amazon has announced Amazon Wireless if you’re looking for a new phone or plan.

A guy used Google Ads to get a job. He bought ads for people who were hiring in his field, so if they searched for their names, his message would come up.

Via Neatorama

If you’d like to read why Apple is not supporting Flash on iPhone, iPod and iPad, you should read Steve Jobs himself has to say about it. He’s posted a note on Apple’s website, “Thoughts on Flash”.

MacBook Pro now with Intel i5 and i7, and 4 gig of memory standard.

Check the Apple Store. The older versions are still around at Amazon, at least for a while.