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- iJessicaRabbit, on 07/08/2009, -1/+25Still not cooler than the exploding inspector gadget paper.
- doctechnical, on 07/08/2009, -0/+24My God! It's made of cats!
- bar10dr, on 07/08/2009, -0/+16*puts the paper in a copy machine*
- borez, on 07/08/2009, -3/+17So... how does it know you've actually read it, before it disappears?
- Chairboy, on 07/08/2009, -0/+13Quantum state monitors. If the paper detects that its probability waveform has collapsed, then it knows that it has been observed.
- civicsi99, on 07/08/2009, -1/+8just take a pic of it then read it all you want.
- thcobbs, on 07/08/2009, -0/+5Unfortunately, the yellow-dot document id code still resides on it... therefore, we can't really re-use the paper.
- Chairboy, on 07/08/2009, -1/+5If you read the article he links to, you'll discover that this is not the DivX that you're thinking of.
Still pisses me off... - dazparkour, on 07/08/2009, -0/+4Self erasing joke book getting you down?
- jetboyterp, on 07/08/2009, -1/+5These could have saved Sandy Berger a lot of trouble...
- donkevin, on 07/08/2009, -2/+5This is the internet; you can swear here.
- inactive, on 07/08/2009, -1/+4You may want to seek help. If you know what I mean.
- Mjeacoma, on 07/08/2009, -5/+8Divx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX_%28Digital_Video ... didn't work then and it won't work now or in the future
- mgraves81, on 07/08/2009, -4/+7This would have been awesome for handing in term papers.
Prof:
"Your 30 pieces of paper were blank."
Me:
"Whaaaaaat?"
Prof:
"They were blank."
Me:
"Damn roomie must have put self-erasing ink in the printer again." - shicken, on 07/08/2009, -0/+3Just what the government needs, another way to destroy their incriminating evidence.
- inactive, on 07/08/2009, -0/+3It doesn't at all, it just is readable for a certain amount of time before disappearing. I liked Chariboy's answer though.
- renanrrinaldi, on 07/08/2009, -0/+2I see what you did there.
Now i don't! - doctechnical, on 07/08/2009, -0/+2Now that I think about it, the real market might be as a kid's toy. I remember having a pad of paper that would dissolve in water, and thinking that was really cool. Invisible ink pens, that kind of stuff. Yes, there is a market for this :)
- dazparkour, on 07/08/2009, -1/+3I don't have a professor and haven't for a good number of years, I was hardly being prophetic. I'm pretty sure mine was hypothetical too, but hey - I must need drugs because you assumed it was about you.
Lighten up. - humanerror, on 07/08/2009, -0/+2Try operating a dispenser some time.
- maffiou, on 07/08/2009, -3/+5?
- litolist, on 07/08/2009, -0/+2"have", not "of"
- Sabretou, on 07/08/2009, -0/+2For every second you spent reading that, a kitten died inside your monitor.
Or not. - inactive, on 07/08/2009, -0/+2Fire can be extinguished? That's a pretty lame excuse. Fire would burn the paper much faster than waiting for the message to slowly fade away as the nanoparticles disperse.
- DWatch, on 07/08/2009, -0/+2To clarify mjecoma's comment.... he is referring to the original Divx DVD scheme, which has nothing to do with the modern DIVX codec (the MPEG4 variant). The original Divx was a marketing ploy by Circuit City to tap into the (then) massively growing DVD rental market. It was basically a way to purchase a DVD for the same amount of money that you could rent a DVD for, but the specially built proprietary DVD player kept track of what disc's were played in the machine, and also 'called home' via a phone line modem to approve playback of each disc. They allowed you to watch the movie for a few days, then disabled it permanently on your player, and refused any other machines 'approval' for the same disc (each disc had its own random id key). You were supposed to be able to call the company and pay for additional screenings if you like, and it would cost the same as another rental.
The scheme failed massively, and anyone who purchased a Divx player and the discs were left out in the cold after Circuit City shut down the program.
link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX_(Digital_Video_E ...
However, I think mjecoma is confusing the Divx scheme with the latest DVD 'rental/purchase' scheme, where the discs are in a protected foil lined pouch, and as soon as you open the pouch and its exposed to air, the contents of the DVD gets erased after 48 hours. This new scheme has the advantage of not needing a special player and dedicated authorization equipment at a central office, however, it still has the disadvantage of being a poorly thought out marketing ploy that customers absolutely hate... especially seeing as how convenient internet downloads or Netflix are.
link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-D - Davisourus, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1As long as a document is read once, it can and will be replicated. All it will take is a program that mediates when the file is being read.
- g00dbye, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1This actually makes perfect sense.
- doctechnical, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1The idea of "read-once" paper has been bandied about for a long time, the real question is "Is there a market for it"? If you're not a spy, WTF do you need with read-once paper? And I can't imagine the spy market is all that large...
- KenSPT, on 07/08/2009, -1/+2Somewhere Inspector Gadget is smiling ...
- roostersheep, on 07/08/2009, -1/+2
- thcobbs, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1Note passing between parties during high-level negotiations of either national or corporate deals?
Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe? - 1ofMany, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1Does anyone REALLY want to trust this with their personal/sensitive data? I'm sure there will be a fairly easy hack to bring back the image.
- aronnyc, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1Seems like this could be easily misused.
- jrm125, on 07/08/2009, -1/+2Your mission, should you choose to accept it...
- jcaino, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1Wouldn't it just be more cost-effective to burn the document?
- inactive, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1All it will take is A MACHINE THAT READS MINDS
/tinfoil hat - mikemehak, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1your misunderstanding of this concept shows that reading history books won't help you.
This technology isn't for printing history books. - solid12345, on 07/08/2009, -1/+2Mhmmm....burger...
- mikemehak, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1even before the advent of the paper shredder, people would burn articles and documents not meant for others eyes.
- inactive, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1I honestly have no clue what your comment is supposed to mean, and I'm not referring to the *****.
- GreatSunJester, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1If it doesn't explode five seconds after reading, what good will it do Michael Bay?
- thebeginning, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1This is going to suck for dyslexic government and military personnel.
- borez, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1Ah... OK, now I see.
(said the blind man. ) - Slade605, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1I think this would bring a new meaning to those "This page intentionally left blank" pages...
- davewelsh79, on 07/08/2009, -1/+2It might not be for printing history books, but the content of future history books has to come from the culture of the present. If portions of current culture are forever lost they will never make it into the history books.
- EverybodyPanic, on 07/08/2009, -0/+0Someone should print "Please keep this document in a safe place" on that self-erasing paper for hilarity.
- TheJimid, on 07/08/2009, -1/+1that place is called Obscurity thanks to Matthew Broderick.
- thcobbs, on 07/08/2009, -1/+1Paper Shredder: Flip all the pieces over and scan them... let a computer reconstruct the original document
Fire: Can be extinguished
Currently, the best paper for writing self-destroying messages is still the magician's water-dissolvable paper.
As a side note. This doesn't sound too practical if you are outside a lot as the paper would be bombarded with UV light and therefore not erase. - kheptril, on 07/08/2009, -0/+0damn! i was gonna say that! good call!
- dazparkour, on 07/08/2009, -1/+1Prof:
"Tough *****, why are you a stupid douche - you should have read over it on your own and you would have noticed".
My teachers were not so stupid. -
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