"Bluetooth excites us, because multiple signs in a store could run off a single communications platform," says Jim Iuliano, E Ink's chief executive.Thanks to digital ink, newspapers, books, billboards, walls and even T shirts will become interactive, animated and even change by the hour.Based on these trials, Mr Iuliano hopes that a retail revolution is about to occur.
"Up until then the industry didn't believe there was a commercially viable way to remove ink from newspaper and recycle the paper," Ms. Lhost said.
Faced with falling readership, declining advertising revenue and millions of dollars in red ink, the newspaper's owners have told union leaders they must send half the staff packing or start writing the obituary.
With a stunning office far more Vogue than ink-stained newspaper, Remnick has a bottle of bourbon near his desk, is partial to the use of "fuckdoodle" to express surprise and calls journalism "the most fun you can have with your pants on".
In this case, mineral oils which had been applied as solvents for inks in newspaper printing are not welcome in packaging because they migrate into the food [1].
Flush with cash from investors and under pressure to make a splash before the inevitable IPO, a torrent of desperate online upstarts are jousting to earn a splotch of ink in newspapers or a patch of airtime on television.
Like our colleagues over at our sister site CrunchGear, we don't like to get our fingers all covered in ink from newspapers, which is why NewspaperDirect's PressDisplay.com service sounds so interesting.
None of that archaic, ink-stained newspaper stuff.
The silly debate over Silver's model showed a political, pundit and media class at a classic horse-and-buggy meets internal combustion engine (or is it ink-stained newspaper curmudgeons meet Internet?) moment: ignorance and fear masked by loud harumphing.
Before Wikipedia, Smartboards, cell phones, the Internet and Google, there was pen and paper, print books, ink-smeared newspapers and a chalkboard in every classroom.
