Another Groundbreaking Interface Technology - ePaper gets ready for primetime.

Back in 2005, ePaper demos began to emerge as a novel way of providing access to digital content in a flexible, portable format. Plastic Logic demonstrated its new technology which (according to GizMag) "enables radical new product concepts in a wide range of applications including flexible displays and sensors. Independent experts from IDTechEx forecast plastic electronics will be a $30 billion industry by 2015, and could reach as much as $250 billion by 2025."

This technology of course raises a number of questions, not the least of which relates to technical support requirements for users of epaper products. I have a flashback to a video that has made its way around the internet of the support implications in the middle ages of switching from scrolls to books. Something tells me this is what we are in for....

A new computing interaction model

One of the more interesting computing input innovations since the tablet PC just got unveiled by Microsoft. Codenamed Milan, Microsoft Surface is supposed to hit stores this fall as a coffee table priced between the $5-10K range. It will change how we think about computing and appears to simplify the interface between multiple device formats. See the video for more information.

Of course, as with all Microsoft products, this will be amazing technology by v3.