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Thursday, October 13, 2005
Siemens USA - Wafer-Thin Color Displays for Packaging
Another development in the eInk/e-paper arena, scientists at Siemens have unveiled technology for thin, disposable, color displays that can be used on packages to show instructions, different langauges, etc. The switching rate of the technology is even fast enough to show moving pictures.
Currently, Siemens is developing technology to create the displays by printing them, powering them with printable batteries and, potentially, printable antennas that draw power from a small radio transmitter on the shelf. The displays are said to be environmentally friendly for disposal.Siemens USA - Wafer-Thin Color Displays for Packaging
[...] At the Plastics Electronics trade fair in Frankfurt, Siemens developers exhibited extremely thin, miniature color displays that can be printed onto paper or foil. And the displays can be produced at very low cost compared to LCD panels. The first displays will become available on the market in 2007.The displays show information about products, or even operating instructions for devices, directly on the packaging. A pillbox, for example, could display instructions for how it should be taken and provide this information in several languages with the push of a button. Admission tickets for trade shows could indicate the booths where various exhibitors are located. Itâs 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 when a button is pushed. [...]
Terry Frazier at 9:50 PM
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Chinese Correspondent Joins Skype Journal
Very cool announcement – telecom specialist Richard Zhao Liang of Beijing has joined Skype Journal. Good move!. I’m looking forward to reading Richard’s reports.
Insights from Beijing on Skypeby Bill Campbell.
Please say hello to Richard Zhao Liang.
Richard publishes the blog Telecom, Security and P2P .
Richard will join us on Skype Journal from time to time to give you special up dates on Skype news and events from Beijing.
Richard earned a PhD degree from Peking University (1997), majoring in fiber-optic communications. He has over 8 years of professional experience on telecommunications and security with certificates of CISSP, ITIL, BS7799. He is the Principal Consultant in China for Computer Associates.
Thanks Richard for joining us and sharing your views.
See his first Skype Journal post, Skype’s Road to China
Terry Frazier at 3:09 PM
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Friday, October 7, 2005
Firefox 1.0.7 Issues
I recently updated to Firefox 1.0.7. Since then I've had several lockups, and generally poor performance - pages taking forever to load, lots of timeouts. I don't have these errors on my laptop, which runs 1.0.4.Anyone else having issues with 1.07?
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