Blogging from your armchair
While those of you with a techier trend may already be equipped with a wireless keyboard set enabling you to blog from virtually any place in the house (e.g. the kitchen, the bathroom, the shed in the yard...) it doesn't quite solve the screen issue. Typing is all quite fine but typos are frequent and one wouldn't know where to click to save a post.
On the other hand, think of your mother, grandmother, roughly those people who can't stand staring hard at a bright screen to read line after line of blog dribble. Wouldn't it be nice to read a blog from the comfort of the living room's big old armchair, a mug of hot Van Houten cocoa teeming with marshmallows?
Readers, behold. Researchers are not miles away from mass producing e-paper (e as in electronic). It feels like, looks like, behaves likes; but doesn't quite sound like real old paper! Tux, a German blogger reports:
Electronic Paper is researched by several companies. Most recent success was reported by E-Ink, who already sells Development Kits and customized Electronical Paper in almost any size and shape. Fortunately E-Ink seems to be interested in selling their product rather than keeping the market closed, so they use Linux and Open Source Software for the Development Kit and might serve almost any customer.
Using the E-Ink technology, Sony has built a device called "Sony Portable Reader System", which is a handheld with a 6" SVGA (800x600 pixels) gray scale display using Electronic Paper. According to the specs, it can store about 80 books and handle 7.500 page turns without recharging the battery. (Remember, Electronic Paper only needs power to change its content, so Sony had to state the standby time in page flips.)
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So what does it mean to us bloggers? One can imagine that if the interface does undergo such a revolution - and it will happen at some point - the level of blog interaction will increase; the number of comments will rise dramatically, and you bloggers will enjoy writing and reading even more, having access to your scribble haven in a more convenient way.
Top e-paper with wireless technology (e.g. wimax), and you'll have connected e-paper anywhere anytime. Imagine slipping your daily e-paper in the car instead of buying the local paper. Now you'll be able to blog during traffic jams and moblogging (blogging via cellphones) will be a thing of the past.
Possibilities are countless and the people researching these technologies have such wild imaginations that I can rest assured tomorrow will have yet another basketful of e-surprises...
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