Monday, October 8, 2007

What's Next? -- Business 2.0 Closes Shop

Business 2.0 will close its print edition with the current issue, October 2007, Volume 8 #9.

Next Things has found inspiration in the magazine's "What's Next?" feature, in which ten new hi-tech ideas are explained. Readers of Next Things will find three items in the final issue interesting:

  • A Projector for Cell Phones: a small chip inserted in your cel phone that allows you to project images from the screen onto the wall. O.K., you store your power point presentation in the cell memory and you can give a quickie presentation to your elevator companions as soon as the door closes. Better than Musack!


  • A Table Touchscreen: an Intra-net built right into the nearest tabletop, to pipe web-content to those around the table. This would be great for those classrooms where the teacher says "turn to page 76" and nothing happens. Now she just hits a button and page 76 is right in front of everyone.


  • E-paper Screens for Reading e-newspapers and E-books: e-paper is a thin screen technology that is more natural than LCD screens, mimicking the look and feel of real ink on real paper. Looks like the folks in silicon valley have finally discovered the 'real' hi-tech device . . . paper. better luminosity, portability, disposability, and energy efficiency. If things keep going in this direction the wave of the future may be e-cuniform.

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