Experience Counts
tracing the wages of the wind
spent here and ended up there
secretly working in the day and night
unrooted kites take to the air and disappear from time and place
investments like these in air
like those made anywhere - only time stands still for time
This blog should become Michelle’s blog which is what it’s original intent was. She has just started using Etsy and Facebook so is on her way in the web 2.0 world. Woot!
With spring finally upon us in the warm weather variety I feel the urge to share the flowering cult.
One of the neat things about the iLiad ereader is that you can put powerpoints and pdfs on it. However, there is no colour display of the texts, which also sours the experience of reading comics or art books on the readers, not to mention visualizations of stats which would be the text book market, right!
Well “For the first time, researchers released a hand-built prototype outside the Japanese labs where it’s been incubating since 2004.
Similar in form factor to an e-book reader, the Fujitsu version displays color–not mind-blowing color, but still more visually appealing than standard black and white–and is aiming for more commercial applications. Fujitsu’s version is “green” and also appeals to the wallet: there is no power required to show an image. That means the technology can eventually be used for signage without having to replace batteries.”
A couple of Israeli engineers at thje College of Judea and Samaria are working on a printing press that could print 1000 ppm. One of the examples that they give for usage is that you’re standing at a kiosk at an airport printing your ticket and select a book that you want to read and have it in a minute hot off the press! 
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