\n\u2026what you could do with such a thing! Fold it and put it in your pocket. Use it wherever you are: in the train, at the dinner table, in bed. Online, off course. Always updated. Access to all books, news, films in the world!<\/p>\n
Good news<\/strong> Update: added press photo of the Plastic Logic Epaper<\/a>. (The one I saw looked a bit more clumpsy).<\/p>\n Bad news<\/strong> On the (much to small) screen, around A5, size of a tablet pc, a full newspaper page was displayed, letters to small to read. Clicking an item brought you the text of the article in text-only mode. Felt definitely no-where like reading a traditional \u201cwood-paper\u201d newspaper.<\/p>\n (These things set aside: in order for the electronic paper to have battery, disk and cpu etc. the prototype I saw, was equipped with a rather not-paper thin, not-roll-able thing at the side.)<\/p>\n Not fish, nor bird<\/strong> On the other hand, this is also very far from what you do with your desktop or laptop. You don\u2019t want to use a mouse. Don\u2019t want to use a keyboard. You want to interact with the paper itself.<\/p>\n Touching, drawing or clicking the screen directly however seems be counter-intuitive to the concept of a flexible, not-solid, paper-like screen. Is there a catch 22?<\/p>\n Physicality peaces your soul<\/strong> Electronic information stresses you<\/strong> Actually, electronic newspapers inherently frustrates and stesses you. You never know, when you\u2019ve read enough. Should I go just one layer deeper, clicking one of those links over there? And what if the editors of the electronic news source, you\u2019re visiting just now, has missed something? Google and the blogosphere is only one click away, you know. Really: you might want to go there, just to be sure.<\/p>\n Grow larger<\/strong> The sound of information being scrolled<\/strong> I\u2019m still thrilled by the concept of electronic paper. But it has some way to come before it\u2019ll be able to fulfil its inherited promises. When that happens, however, we might have the future of information in our hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First off: I\u2019m totally thrilled by the idea of electronic paper: you know \u2013 a computer screen, thin as paper, roll-able and bendable. And tough. Not easy to break. Not fragile. Imagine\u2026 \u2026what you could do with such a thing! Fold it and put it in your pocket. Use it wherever you are: in the… L\u00e6s mere »Electronic paper and the sound of information being scrolled<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3747,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/3747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGood news is: it\u2019s here! I saw it at the knock-knock conference<\/a>\u00a0 in Aarhus two weeks ago (and I\u2019ve been thinking about it since). The screen (black\/white) was crystal-clear no matter how you looked at it (far beyond ordinary computer screens). You could even spill coffee on it \u2013 and it still worked!
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\nThe bad news is: the user interface doesn\u2019t really work yet. Using it to read an electronic newspaper felt rather clumsy; not convincing. And definitely not what the technology has potentials for.<\/p>\n
\nThe electronic paper really needs someone to do some thinking on how you\u2019d actually use the thing. It is not \u2013 and has potentials far beyond those of \u2013 a traditional newspaper. You\u2019re gonna ask this thing for interactivity; ways of dealing with the newspaper which is very, very much more than turning a page.<\/p>\n
\nExperiencing the electronic paper made the quality of \u201cwood-paper\u201d very clear to me. There is something about the physical, 3-dimentional form of a traditional newspaper that really helps me in the process off getting informed. Feeling the surface, smelling the ink\/paper substance between my hands. Being able physically to relate to the news. This gives me peace to my soul.<\/p>\n
\nElectronic information as we know it today really has a severe disadvantage here: it\u2019s all flat and one-dimensional. There is very little in the form that helps you as a reader to understand or get any kind of first hand impression of what and how much information you\u2019d like to have today.<\/p>\n
\nElectronic paper, roll-able and flexible, might be the step that\u2019ll lead electronic information ahead, showing a way to physical, electronic news. To do so I it has to grow in size, I believe. Less than tabloid-format won\u2019t do (and it might want to go broadsheet!). It\u2019s crucial there\u2019s enough space to be able to give you that precious firsthand overview of whats really important.<\/p>\n
\nElectronic paper also needs a way of revealing the depth of its information. Look at the iPod scroll-wheel, which actually manage to do so. (I\u2019ve never thought about this before! Apple really have done a terrific job in creating the iPod!!!): when scrolling the wheel you can sense a light sparkling in the finger turning the wheel and hear the crispy sound of information being scrolled over (yup, this is what it sounds like). All the while the iPod visually displays your inventory of songs.<\/p>\n