http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12663-pulpbased-computing-makes-normal-paper-smart.html
Link: 'Pulp-based computing' makes normal paper smart - tech - 19 September 2007 - New Scientist Tech.
'Pulp-based computing' makes normal paper smart
Mason Inman
13:54 19 September 2007
"Boxes that sense the weight of their contents and books that talk back when pages are turned could be developed using technology being tested by researchers at MIT in the US.
"They are making paper with wires, sensors, and computer chips embedded, a technology dubbed 'Pulp-based' computing. (((Kids – don't publicly wear this stuff oin paranoid airport terrorspaces.)))
"Marcelo Coelho, now at MIT's Media Lab in Boston, US, presented progress on the project this week at the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing in Innsbruck, Austria. (((Throwaway cardboard computers, an obvious ubicomp app. "Would someone please recycle that huge heap of cardboard ubijunk?")))
"Swedish researchers have previously used a slightly different technique have made interactive paper for billboard adverts.
"Other research groups are also working on so-called electronic paper - flexible displays designed to make computer screens more like traditional paper. But Coelho and Patti Maes at MIT and colleagues at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, are instead blending traditional paper-making skills with electronic components (see a video of the production process and some applications)....
