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Digital Paper: Closer than You Think

Digital Paper: Closer than You Think

Wired has posted an article, "Flexible Displays Closer to Reality", that reports on how quickly the technology for thin flexible (paper-like) digital displays is progressing, possibly available as soon as 2010! The surprise news to me is that this speed-to-market is thanks in large part to the U.S. Army and the nearly $44 million they've invested in the technology since 2004. U.S. troops will be the first to get their hands on it, but the goal is to make flexible displays commercially available.
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Great Minds...

Great Minds...

Maybe it's just us, but there seems to be something similar between this Sunday's New York Times Magazine and next week's WIRED covers. Can't quite put our finger on it quite yet...

NYT AD Arem Duplessis and WIRED CD Scott Dadich assure us it's a total coincidence, though the two were seen carousing togther at the SPD West event last Sunday night. The Times' image is one in a series of three photographs by Martin Klimas and WIRED's shot is a construction by Stephen Doyle, photographed by Zachary Zavislak.

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