LG Display Flexible Newspaper-Sized E-Paper

Too bad there aren't any newspapers left.

Maybe this could save the lamented newspaper industry? I don't know what percentage of their budget goes to wood pulp, but think of buying one of these and downloading by WiFi or cell phone. Especially if they roll up compactly into a small tube.

As in a related thread on copyright, there needs to be an easy mechanism similar to Pay-Pal for handling many high-volume low-money transactions. Downloads in general should not be free (unless voluntarily), but they should usually be inexpensive. A proper structure for this would reward the creators and conveyors of information, and would also make information widely available at reasonable cost.

...wonder if you could start a fire with this new newspaper?

I want clothes made that from that stuff - when they come out with a color version - and little cameras pointing this way and that in such a way that what others see on one side is what the little cameras see on the other. Gives a new meaning to "disappear in a crowd." Invisible to everyone except, maybe, Kirk.

A wearable Romulan Cloaking Device (and one that doesn't look like a hi-tech porch light made from recycled Nomad parts).

"Sterilize! STERILIZE!!!"

Alas, nothing in the report about dynamic or even updatable display. For all we know, the prototype is no more useful or versatile than a printed sheet of plastic - a place mat on your dinner table. The wireless antenna, "display" controller, etc., all must take up some kind of mass. Close, but no cigar. Let's see what version 0.2 looks like...