Another future post

   Many times when people speak of the future, they refer to some ideas. Today's future post is actually in beta testing and working in their lab. EEtimes is reporting about a German lab, Fraunhofer Research Institution for Electronic Nano Systems, developing printable batteries. The batteries are low powered, about 1.5 volts, short term and less than 10 cents a page. Heck, less than 10 cents a page is cheaper than printing a color page out on most color laser printers. (Hum, wonder if I can put these under a price per page contract?)
   They are targeting applications such as smart credit cards with battery-powered displays to show balances and other account information. Think about the other applications. Like greeting cards. I like to talk to people about transforming their current mono-media static documents into smart documents that retain information about themselves, can be instantly shared with multiple people and can apply security to themselves. This would take that a step further. Imaging have web links within the document, the document displaying the linked information within itself or requiring a login to display certain portions of itself to apply security or tracking during its life cycle. How about having information in the document that recognizes it has been read and then disappears like in some Bond movie. You are probably thinking right about now of currently having these types of features in a laptop. Yea, maybe, but not at less than
 10 cents and weighing less than a gram.
   Is the future really paperless?

Send me an email if your interested in getting your static documents into smart documents. It what I do.