Siemens is developing paper-thin display technology, which is composed of a polymer-based photochromic material, and capable of displaying digital text and images. The power source is based on commercially available, ultra-thin batteries, and the images are stored by electronic memory strips.
In less than two years, Siemans says that electronic display technology will be so inexpensive it could be used on everything from milk cartons to cereal boxes.
[Thanks, Wired]
The Netherlands has introduced a “video stamp,” which utilizes a sophisticated variation technology to the simple three or four framed disney characters on a ruler who moved, depending on the angle it was held, which we had when we were kids. The technology can be applied to business cards, vending machine signs, billboards etc. — and potentially packaging. For more information, visit Lenticular.
May 4th, 2006 at 3:23 am
This is all cool and futuristic. I would love to actually see the mazes in the cereal box move around when I dully stare at half asleep in the morning. However, the problem with putting circuits and batteries into household products like these comes when you have to dispose of them. Throwing batteries and silicon ciruits away in the garbage is terrible for our enviornment. I hope that by the time we are surrounded by these products the scientists will have also figured out how to make them biodegradable.