Fujitsu - Electronic Paper!

[Intrigued]

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/p...050713-01.html

That looks awesome!

[bnkrazy]

When I first saw the image my first thought was the computer in the movie Minority Report. Pretty cool stuff indeed.

That would work great for the next generation of photo albums!

And not long after that I imagine this will be the new 'flat-screen' of choice.

[gbrown]

Here it is, a couple of hundred years from Capt. Kirk, and the stuff that's sitting around on my desktop blows away the displays on The Enterprise. It's what I've said all along... the technology of TV SF shows mirrors "cutting edge" of the time. Witness these shots I took of the old Mercury Launch Control room at Cape Canaveral. These are pretty contemporary with the STOS:

Tape Units
Control Panel
Equipment Rack
Equipment Rack
Launch Control Position

Boy... just imagine...a little portable PC with a 10 gig drive. ALL of project Gutenburg on the drive. The world's libary under 10 pounds! When that "Electronic Paper" matures, it will be a world-changer.

[Corey]

"Lox Replenish"? What the? Is that a control room or a kosher buffet?

[gbrown]

LOX = Liquid Oxygen

[Corey]

What about the "Tail Crabs" then? Sounds like a buffet to me frankly, I just can't figure out who would go to such trouble to disguise it.

[gbrown]

Not tail CRAB... tail GRAB!

As in, the thing that holds THIS TAIL to the pad before launch. BTW... check out the blast deflector. That's that little thing on the ground dead-centre under the exhaust. It's about 6 or 7 cm high. Compare it to THESE BLAST DEFLECTORS from the Saturn rocket days. Those puppies are around 20 or so metres high!

[Intrigued]

Cape Canaveral, that was a fun time for me and my wife. Those Saturn rocket(s) are huge! What an awesome site. And then it was neat in a way to be (bragging rights I suppose) able to touch some moon rock.

But, going in to see the control room you stand there (for those that have not visiting there) waiting for this vary large door (where there is a machine gun toating guard, not the norm in the U.S. to see armed guards with machine guns) to open. Then you get packed in the room behind the door to watch a movie (and by then everyone stinks from the heat of the day, walking in such).



I got some cool pics myself. And I got my wife and I to get a snap shot with an astronaut (I believe he/she was) in the space suite! Neat stuff!

[eric_darling]

Besides... They'd NEVER serve crab at a kosher buffet!

[Worm]

Eric, ya kill me!

Besides... They'd NEVER serve crab at a kosher buffet!

[Corey]

Fair enough, fair enough, but how can you explain this?!?!

[eric_darling]

Now that's one fancy pizza bakin' oven ya got there, Corey.

"Houston to Lunar Lander, *munch* *munch* *munch*...
erm...Come in....mmmm.... this is Houston, over (lunch)..."

I'll have the two slices and a drink combo - make mine with Velcro.

[Corey]

I smell a conspiracy. And cheese. A four-cheese with thin crust conspiracy. Mmmmmmmm... Thin crust conspiracy... [drool]

[yosik]

Somebody mentionned Kosher??!?
Never tasted crab myself. Doesn't look very appetizing to me...Different strokes...
On the more serious angle, I can't wait to see these one-page-versatile-content-books.
Will OLED be the precursor of such technology?
Think about it, buying a versatile screen by the square-foot, place virtual windows, wall video screens, "roll your screen" package....
I can't wait...

Yossi

[Corey]

They sure don't taste like they look. I don't eat meat anymore, but I remember good crab being unbelievably *delicious*. And lobster is arguably the most delicious meat on earth.

Anyhow almost all the "crab" they serve in restaurants, etc. nowadays is artifical crab made from pollock.