lucyfersam - Slashdot User

Comment Re:"Adult" and "Mature" labeling (Score 2, Insightful) 134

by lucyfersam on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @12:00AM (#20921981) Attached to: Defending Games For Adults on National Television

Honestly I find this idea that these things you lable as adolescent are not adult more troubling than the idea that all games are for kids. In part because it feeds the idea that these are really aimed at kids, but more because it effectively makes the claim that these things are never acceptable entertainment. We aren't supposed to enjoy them when we're kids becuase we're not old enough, and we shouldn't enjoy them now that we're adults because we're too mature for that. It's absurd, puritanical, and judgemental. It helps the cause of restricting games on multiple levels, and is probably the most damning opinion of entertainment I can think of.

Rollable E Ink Displays Get Real 116

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday February 18, 2007 @12:02PM from the just-don't-crease-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Two years ago Philips unveiled a prototype of a functional electronic-document reader, called the Readius, which could unroll its display to a scale larger than the device itself. Unfortunately, that was only a prototype. According to Cnet, however, Polymer Vision, which spun out from Philips in 2006, has redesigned the Readius and turned it into a real product that it is going to be available by the end of this year. There are some notable differences between this Readius and the prototype version, in particular, the ability to display 16 shades of grey instead of just 4 and the connectivity options. What doesn't make sense though, is given the energy efficiency and easy-to-read high contrast functionality of E Ink, why other than Motorola with its Motofone, has no other cell phone manufacturer incorporated E Ink technology into its handsets?"

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