By creating a paste made of tiny helix-shaped particles that can be minutely manipulated with electric charges to reflect light in highly specific ways, Magink can produce surfaces that look like paper but behave like electronic screens, rendering high-resolution, full-color images without ink -- or, as Magink executives like to refer to the process, with digital ink.
It was a poetic marker of sort for me, a moment when information stored in physical space found passage into the electronic ether, rendering things like library reference cards and answering machines obsolete.
What happens if apps and electronic navigation render them obsolete?
The development of mechanical and electronic computing rendered these arrangements obsolete.
The song was Timbaland's "The Way I Are" — electronic music rendered, in a sort of reverse Auto-Tune, by purely human instruments.
The incident made a buzzword of "bricking," a term from the high-tech industry typically used to describe electronic devices rendered useless by corrupted software.
LaBranche & Company, the largest specialist firm at the New York Stock Exchange, has hired an investment bank to explore the company's options as electronic trading renders market makers on the floor obsolete.
Although cross-listing has traditionally been explained as an attempt to break down market segmentation and to increase investor recognition of the cross-listing firm, the globalization of financial markets and instantaneous electronic communications render these explanations increasingly dated.
One part of the group sang, "Thug it out till we get it right, I like you just the way you are," while another kept the rhythmic undertone alive: "Bump, bump, bump". The song was Timbaland's "The Way I Are"—electronic music rendered, in a sort of reverse Auto-Tune, by purely human instruments.
