Read Blogs on Cereal Boxes by 2020

Posted on August 17, 2006

Vnunet.com reports that a study from Telewest says flexible viewing devices will help bring news and video to all kinds of new places and surfaces by 2020 -- including cereal boxes. The study was "based on the insights of futurologists, consumer technology experts and design gurus."

The report predicts that the traditional TV set will be replaced by a number of "flexible viewing devices".
The development of ultra-thin displays will result in the introduction of video "wallpaper" and tiles that can turn an entire wall into a screen.
Other innovations expected in the next 20 years are video displays on breakfast cereal packets, and screens that can show two different programmes at the same time depending on the angle from which they are viewed.
Internet access will be available through connected displays embedded in magazine pages.

Flexible display devices using technology like E-Ink and electronic paper have already been created but so far have only brought gadgets like thin digital clocks. You can also see a cool prototype of a Flexible Plastic Display from Plastic Logic here in a post from last December. If you are still blogging in the year 2020 your blog's readers should be able to get the latest updates from your feed on their flexible display devices which could be in the form of a cereal box, refrigerator magnet, electronic newspaper, wallpaper or placemat.