On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:38:04PM -0700, Tim Rowledge wrote:
> A _long_ time ago, when I was at the Royal College of Art, I designed a
> portable machine based on the idea of the old papyrus scrolls. Imagine
> a short stick, perhaps 7" long, maybe 1.5" diameter with all the gubbins
> in - batteries, cpu, stuff like that. Now include a rolled up screen
> made from a suitable descendent of the flexible electronic paper that is
> almost usable now and just pull as much out as you have room for. On a
> crowded train you could pull out just enough to read y asingle column
> formatted newspaper, at your desk you pull it out to A4 size. A larger
> model might be 11" long and provide A3 maximum display. All at 300dpi of
> course :-)

If you can get the stick length down to 4 1/2 inches, it will fit in
a standard home toilet paper dispenser. New we're talking volume sales.

Dave