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.

The upgrade is $29 for a single license, $49 for a five license pack.

Why give up on the TV brand “Sci Fi”? Dumb, dumb, dumb.

(via Engadget)

Originally called “Dr. Dobb’s Journal of Tiny Basic Calisthenics and Orthodontia – Running Light without Overbyte“, I first saw it on the shelf at the local library, probably about 1978 or 1979. A lot of what they were talking about was WAY over my head, but I read through it anyway, since it was one of the few computer publications available.

I always enjoyed reading the magazine, but as I said, in the last year or two it was a shade of it’s former self. I’m not sure what will happen to “Swaine’s Flames” or that very long running C/C++ ad they ALWAYS ran since this is all being folded into InformationWeek (which spams me constantly to subscribe, btw)…

Sad to see it go.

Unfortunately for Dash, they are killing their GPS devices. Does that mean it was a bad idea? Not at all. It’s a GREAT idea.

Now, would this make a great iPhone app? Probably, but the problem with it is that if you’re giving routing information, you need to know where you’re going in the first place? Why not let the iPhone’s built-in map do it? Well, that’s against the iPhone rules.

Someone’s going to figure out how to do this properly, either through an agreement with Apple, after Apple loosens the rules up, or through a Dash-like device that does this in a way the company can keep going. (Maybe Garmin will buy Dash out?)

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-place-on-earth.html