News - US magazine to display Harry Potter-style moving images

[HEXUS]

Entertainment Weekly to get video screens.

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[stevie lee]

so the video can last 45 minutes, 1 hour or 2 hours. yet the battery only lasts 70 minutes.

theres somethig not quite right there.

[Kerotan]

Is it just me or would it not have made far more sense to wait for something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcAm3KihFho to become available cheaply. Longer battery life, better colours, thinner and can be bent as it is flexible.

There is no way having a chunky LCD in a magazine will ever catch on, it's ludicrous.

[Fraz]

Clearly they haven't heard of the internet yet.

[Scarlet Infidel]

The day we have disposable video displays in magazines will be a sad day indeed. Why do we always have to strive towards things that are garish and wasteful.

Develop some sort of colour ebook device, maybe that can fold up somehow (like a scroll maybe) that you can download magazines to. Obviously the line between magazines and websites starts to blur here. This is the kind of thing I'd like to see as the way forward.

[stavroshamster]

Good idea in principle, butthe technology is nowhere near ready.
Who is going to regularly buy a magazine which you cant shove into a bag without worrying about breaking it?
It will be a gimmick for a few months and then fade into obscurity until electronic paper is really ready.

[OilSheikh]

This is just amazing.

LCD in a magazine! wow!

I guess it's environmentally friendly as well as all the ads can be stored in one chip rather than spreading across many pages.

[jimbouk]

A skip button, wow it's like being able to turn a page...

One step forward and two steps back. As above this will be gone in a few months.

[mikerr]

Yes, a thread necro ... but the same magazine has just put a screen playing live tweets in its magazine

Engadget took it apart to find the guts of a complete phone - running android:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/04/e...lshare_twitter

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Yes, a thread necro ... but the same magazine has just put a screen playing live tweets in its magazine

Engadget took it apart to find the guts of a complete phone - running android:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/04/e...lshare_twitter

Supposedly its this phone:

http://www.bluelans.com/new-abo-3g-q...ps-p-9990.html