Comments on: Super-spies rejoice: Self-erasing paper!

By: harry

harry — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:37:21 +0000

I bet these spy girls in Japan use this http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/mihiro-yuuri-mori...

By: jimmyknits42

jimmyknits42 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:34:15 +0000

I like the idea of a greener paper source, but there are some many other ways of going about doing so. For example, why waste the money on thousands of sheets of paper when you could (possibly) make 1 piece of reusable e-paper (like a computer screen)cheap? I think that that kind of technology is a while a way, but it makes sense to have no paper, as opposed to reuse the same paper again and again.

By: Rob Dunn

Rob Dunn — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:54:34 +0000

I'm assuming that the receipt paper would be more expensive to manufacture, and is of a lesser quality.

However, I'm not sure about that – what would be the major difference other than paper quality here?

By: Mr. Muskrat

Mr. Muskrat — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:04:00 +0000

I'm not impressed. I have stacks of receipts (printed on thermal paper) that are completely blank.

By: Sampi

Sampi — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:36:28 +0000

Personally, I prefer OpenOffice ^^

By: Gnardar

Gnardar — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:22:08 +0000

unfortunately I somewhat agree with the time frame for the paperless society. I dont blame it on technology though. There is just too many people who refuse to use technology to their advantage. We have people who refuse to use Microsoft office and prefer to use an older word processor. Causes big headaches I assure you.

By: krillz

krillz — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:33:34 +0000

this just sounds lame, I mean the paper will get used and thrown away anyways after 1-2 meetings, so what's the point?

Just recycle the paper and you are contributing, and by recycled paper instead, and you're feeling guilty deamon will stop nagging you.

That is if you give a rat's ass, I know I don't.

By: Rob Dunn

Rob Dunn — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:22:01 +0000

While I agree with you regarding the timeframe for a paperless society, technology like this doesn't help things…

Re: Marriage certificates

At least Britney Spears should print hers on it…LOL

By: Koka Sexton

Koka Sexton — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:12:39 +0000

A paperless society will not happen in my children's lifetime. (I have no kids, but the point remains)People's memory cannot retain and recall information quick enough to make paper obsolete and technology has not made enough progress to completely fix that. Self erasing paper sounds like a great idea. They should print marriage certificates on it. :)

By: Sampi

Sampi — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:51:42 +0000

A remarkable invention indeed but I doubt it would be very practical. It seems somewhat handy but the paper would eventually become old and would have to be thrown away. A whiteboard seems to serve the same purpose without the annoyances.

By: Ambercat

Ambercat — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:38:26 +0000

Now if Xerox could only invent the self erasing cd-rom.

Given the problems the Brittish Government has been having lately about missing data disks and missing laptops there would appear to be a degree of urgency for such an invention.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:01:26 +0000

With all of the times I've had to print any document for meetings or discussions or anything else I've seen at work, I can guarantee that it needs to last longer than 16 hours. Plus, after so much time, wouldn't the ink fade? Wouldn't that cause even more problems. You print off a bunch of papers for a meeting, hand them out 4 hours later and it's all faded and hard to read… they're hard to read as it is, especially if they've been faxed in. And for those meeting notes, I'm the type of person that keeps them if I write notes on them. I don't want to have to circle an important item and the next day to find a note with something circled and nothing in the circle. What's the point.

I can appreciate Xerox wanting to make things 'greener', but they might want to look in a different area.