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- 23kon
Esquire Cover October 2008 (E-ink)
Thought i'd post this up so that it can appear as a Editors Choice sometime November/December
- janne760
"Thought i'd post this up so that it can appear as a Editors Choice sometime November/December"
lol but true.
- MrDinky0
but good that they are using technology which has been around for 10 years
- 23kon0
First time ive seen this. one of print designers at work sent it round everyone. interesting stuff - quite bladerunnery lol.
"Bad for the environment"
and technologies like computers, TV's, ipods and iphones are GOOD for the environment??????- The difference is that they're specifically not immediately disposable products.Nairn
- Nairn0
Oh G-d, this is such an horrific arse-about face usage of this technology - what a waste of resource. The editors of this fucking environmental rape should be slowly castrated then boiled alive in their family's blood.
- exactly!
but not boiled on gas or oil, pls.
just use manure or something, keep it bio..janne76
- exactly!
- dirtydesign0
sweet. animated gifs in magazines.
- killthefish0
There going to sell a million billion extra copies of that magazine if that's an actual issue.
- mightyj0
never thought they'd bring the "blink" back
- BattleAxe0
RIP Print 2012
- vespa0
if the whole magazine was made of it and it updated itself every month it would be good for the environtment no? i.e. less disposable?
- now that would be nice.
might be better just using iphone and interweb site tho23kon - excellent pointdeadfinch
- Using iPhone is never better than anything.killthefish
- better than NOT having a phone23kon
- good point. but wouldn't that purpose the defeat?janne76
- i mean.. arh fuckit.
the hadron is killing me..janne76 - Exactly, and it has to start somewhere. It's not going to straight into production as a whole book it will be a process.voiceof
- now that would be nice.
- Nairn0
Aye, vespa - that route is exactly what 'e-ink' in its various guises is made for. Permanent devices that deliver old-school-style media in an updated, practically-useful new media environment.
Tacking a monitor to the front of a disposable bloody magazine is ... I can't even muster the words to deliver just how egregiously stupid this is.
Of course, from a marketing point of view - 'great' - Esquire's going to shunt a boatload of copy this month and be lauded for years to come as the spring board for this technology.
It's when all the other fuckwits follow suit that we'll have another expensive, gaia-raping mess on our hands.
I hate my species.
- spifflink0
They only made like 10,000 of them for subscribers.
- That 'only' is 10k units of something which never need have existed at all. And, I think it was 100k.Nairn
- bloody selfish elitist cunts!janne76
- i am just saying they arent selling like a billion extra as stated above. i agree that its wasteful.spifflink
- Sure it might look wasteful, but important emerging technology goes through these stages...ribit
- MLP0
they made 100k for newsstands in like 8 cities. already grabbed like 5 of them to take apart and hack.
- ukit0
Looks like a banner ad. Still pretty cool though.
- utopian20
remindful of the first use of Flash: small and centered on the page...