Spotlight: E-Ink and E-Paper

I've been watching a little company called the E Ink Corporation, developer of Electronic paper, for several years now and it seems like they're finally starting to move their way more and more into the mainstream marketplace. A while back, Sony released their eBook reader featuring the monochrome technology that reportedly has the same contrast and reflective properties of paper, and reacts to sunlight in the same way paper does, making it an ideal medium for print formats such as eBooks, digital watches, cell phone displays, and in my mind creates new possibilities for WiFi Newspapers down the road, kind of like the live-update newspapers in the movie Minority Report.

Visit their site e-ink.com for more info on the technology as well as samples of products using ePaper. If you're interested in creating your own eInk products, you can purchase a Prototyping Kit from their website.

Just A Reminder: iTunes Store Coming Soon To An iPhone Near You!

I was poking around in Mobile Safari on my iPhone today, and wanted to see what would happen if I clicked on an iTunes Store link on a site I was on, and I got the page above. It was just an interesting reminder to me that I'll be able to blow my money even easier soon through the WiFi iTunes Store. I'm just asking the same question everyone else is asking: will we be able to download podcasts as well from the WiTunes Store?

The Purpose of This Blog: The Strange Infatuation With Technology That I Seem To Have

I've needed a place to vent and share my infatuation with technology for some time now, so I think I can justly say that this blog's presence online is far past due. You might be asking yourself who I am... am I someone of importance? Some renowned computer programmer? or perhaps a great Technology columnist from some big newspaper. Frankly, I'm none of these. I'm just a simple video editor who loves to envision where our technology will take us over the next century. I look at how far we have come in just the past decade, and it sends my mind racing with ideas and fantasies of what might lie ahead of us in the future. It's a bold world out there, and it's blazing hot with technology!

So, if you're reading this, or any other of my posts to come, consider it an open board to share your thoughts, good and bad concerning technology and the bold frontier that lies ahead of us.

Please note that since I am an editor, from time to time, I will be posting how-to's, tips and the like, mostly conerning my platform of choice Final Cut Pro and all the apps in FCP Studio 2.

All that said, I hope what you find here is enlightening, challenging and entertaining as we explore current, past and possible future technologies.