Rodney
Thursday 26th August 2010 | 08:35 PM...in response to this comment by Friendo. The system is made by Americhip and it's actually been around for a while - although with very few takers. I suppose the cost of installation into magazines would be high, because the printing presses are set up to do it, so it would have to be done by hand.
Installation into manuals is a fantastic idea and will probably happen - if manuals aren't completely phased into eBook type systems instead. These days, many manuals come as PDFs rather than books; although the whole eBook concept is not really getting the traction everyone said it would (people still like paper).
I still find it boring because it's really just a cheap display, a recording on a flash ROM and a pulley trigger, much like in a musical greeting card. When you think of "video in print", having the print on a page with a cut out in it, is really just "video on a normal video device, with a paper border".
Novel, yes. Cool? Not yet.
...in response to this comment by Rodney. I didn't realize the thing was ΒΌ inch thick. Now it's not nearly so cool.
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Friendo
Thursday 26th August 2010 | 07:15 PMBoring though it may be, this is about the coolest thing I have ever seen-not that I will be going out and buying a bunch of them to watch. To me this seems "technology over the top."
Certainly, there must be some worthwhile applications for it. How about putting it in instruction manuals? There must be something valuable it can do. Where does the sound come from? How do they do that? Who's in there?
I googled it, and against my better judgment, it seems to be real. Perhaps it could be called "Scratch and View" Like Scratch and sniff for a different sense.
Cool post man...I could have used a bit more info, along with your take on all of it.
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