SHARP LAPTOPS OFFER 3D DISPLAY - A new notebook computer from
Sharp Corporation, a Japanese electronics company, will come with a display
capable of showing three-dimensional objects without requiring users to wear
special glasses. The Mebius PC-RD3D is expected to go on sale in late October in
Japan, with release in the United States slated before the end of the year. Although
the new system targets mostly people who design 3D software, the company said it
is also planning to release a model for consumers. The laptop toggles between the
3D display and a regular display. The price is expected to be about $3,000. Visit:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/11/HNsharp3d_1.html?hardware
(InfoWorld, 12 Sept 03)

ELECTRONIC PAPER IN OUR FUTURE? - Scientists have created a new type of
" electronic paper" that may one day show color movies. Robert Hayes, a scientist at
Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, sees the first products
being developed in three or four years. Tiny dots packed in columns and rows on the
" paper" can change colors in one one hundredth of a second, fast enough to display
video images. Actually this paper is not really paper at all, but electronics embedded
in flexible plastic as thin as paper. To work, it would need to be connected to a power
source, such as a cell phone or a handheld organizer. (Nature, 25 Sept 03)