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Re:E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display by egypturnash on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @10:00PM (#11767164)
Use gaze tracking to have it change when nobody's looking at it. It's a different picture now and then but you'll never catch it changing no matter how long you watch.
Re:E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display by reportingsjr on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @10:51PM (#11767362)
Here is an amazing blog post where someone did exactly this!

https://www.claybavor.com/?p=407

Obviously they took a pretty expensive and power intensive route, but the end result is absolutely phenomenal

Re:E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display by Razengan on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @03:34AM (#11768218)
I think all these ideas will be best realized when we can have entire walls made of programmable, maybe electro-organic with properties like chameleon skin, material that can be set to display anything we want.

Go one step further and it can be even better; have them also emit air with different temperatures and smells, so that I can have one wall displaying an open field, for example, complete with the feeling of a fresh scented breeze coming from that direction.

Re:E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display by Zuider on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @03:01PM (#11772226)
Ray Bradbury anticipated such a total immersive experience in his book Fahrenheit 451.

He was not so sanguine about it, as he saw it as a potential pitfall which could lead people to lose their humanity in a cloud of vague emotions and indistinct narratives. It would be more pernicious than a sensory deprivation chamber because the total immersion would lull its users into a state of unfocused, passive complacency. By contrast, wrestling with a worthwhile book would sharpen the mind and will by making the reader aspire to meet the standards of the text.

Re:E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display by AnonymousPlanet on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @04:58AM (#11768502)
More interesting is the moment when this future is more evenly distributed and the technology is so cheap that we have animated decorations on toilet paper.
Re:E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display by bigabe on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @07:49AM (#11769047)
IoT Toilet paper that can match your stains into something like images from a search engine and turn it in to a picture....... With gaze tracking
Re:E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display by sjrd on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @12:52AM (#11767728)
And then make it display statues of weeping angels.

Don't blink!

Re:E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display by bluejellybean on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @10:32PM (#11767291)
I'm pretty sure this comment chain is going to end up making someone a lot of money.

Honestly, I love the idea of a van Goph with a massive, subtly moving image.

Re:E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display by singham on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @10:48PM (#11767352)
The new movie of Van Gogh is just that.
Re:E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display by forgetcolor on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @02:13AM (#11767955)
http://bengrosser.com/projects/protocols-of-looking/ -- artwork w gaze tracking, looks away when you look at it
Re:E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display by happyslobro on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @04:00AM (#11768314)
And this is how schizophrenia gets triggered.
Re:E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display by JulianMorrison on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @12:21PM (#11770926)
Silicon Dawn generation 2? ;-P
Re:E Ink announces a full color electrophoretic ePaper display by egypturnash on Thursday May 26, 2016 @01:17PM (#11779704)
Wait until this can be embedded in cards powered by what light they can absorb and, I dunno, the kinetic energy of shuffling them. "Hey wait last time I looked at this card her eyes were closed..."