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• 1. Hotwheels23 &hellip | 1 January 1970 at 0000

  adminwrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt “Full-colour, bendable e-paper could be available as early as 2009, after Japanese corporation Bridgestone revealed its latest product developments.

• 2. REG CROWDER | 25 August 2008 at 1908

  I agree. What they are doing with this stuff in Japan seems to make a whole lot of sense.

  I’m pretty sure it isn’t e-paper but I am seeing an APPLICATION along these lines in a few shopping center parking lots in western France (Brittany).

  They are not terribly big billboards. They depend upon the vibrance of the color and the light emitting qualities of whatever is generating the image for their appeal. And the appeal is genuine. The images are a lot more compelling than conventional billboards that depend upon reflected light from sunlight or artificial illumination.

  I’m sorry I can’t tell WHAT is generating the images. They’re a bit too high for me to analyze the image and I always forget to bring my 1200 mm telephoto lens to the supermarket when I go shopping for dog food. (It looks a bit like a shoulder-launched rocket and I really don’t want to get that Gendarmes THAT excited.)

  It might be a very big LCD screen or maybe some flexible (and huge) film-type transparency being moved by motors in front of a light source.

  I watched the construction activity leading up to the installation of several of these things at Carrefour in Guingamp. The underground cable conduits connecting the billboards to whatever they are connected to are MUCH BIGGER than would be required for either a conventional billboard or a huge video screen. Possibly this indicates an intention to upgrade the technology in the future.

  But I gotta tell ‘ya, the application works. These things look good.

  REG CROWDER
  Freelance Financial and Investment Writer
  London, England and Brittany, France
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