Rather than use a large display that would make the watch bulky, Timex has opted to scroll messages across the screen, and has a setting that controls the speed of the scrolling.
SAYAMA, Japan — As an electric sign tallied the vehicles rolling off the Honda assembly line here, a scrolling message exhorted employees: "Let's pool our strength to overcome this crisis".
Flashing highway signs and electronic signs with scrolling messages can be a serious driving distraction.
Using LED technology, an electronic band of bright blue lights secured to the upper part of a bottle of Medea can be programmed to display one of three scrolling messages, with each one up to 255 characters in length.
You can program up to five scrolling messages into the E-Plate and display them at a moment's notice to the driver behind you.
Near the end, Mr. Klasfeld uses an MTV-style graphic to scroll a message from an imaginary fan: "Jewel's music sounds much better now that she's dancing!" It's a great video, but the song isn't quite sophisticated enough to match it.
This huge canvas, whose composition was borrowed from Rembrandt, shows Jesus as Jewish, preaching in a synagogue and wearing a skullcap and prayer shawl as he delivers, before an open Torah scroll, a message of togetherness for peoples of the world.
There's a yarmulke that will electronically scroll any message you want ($20, www.ledkippah.com).
Tap Settings > Messages and scroll down to Message History before selecting how long you'd like to keep your old messages.
They wrote their experiences and dreams, illustrated with pictures, on a long scroll, wrote messages for politicians and leaders on wall posters, decorated T-shirts and prepared short dramas to give feedback to one another.
In a demo, the ATAP team showed how you can scroll across messages with pretty amazing precision by just holding your hand over the watch and move closer and further away.
